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05 Vibe - Painted Front Grill Black

Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 8:41 am
by AustinG
Okay, so I was getting a little tired of the boring grey front grill on my 05, and I wanted the silver outline to pop more. Today I prepared everything and painted it black. I think it looks a lot better than it did before in grey. A few days ago I painted the cross bars black, and I repainted the factory steelies as well. I live on a dirt road, so the part of the steel rims that isn't covered by the caps got all rusted/sand blasted. They look new.

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I still haven't got any new wheels installed, because I keep refusing to pay $500 for a set of tires and balance/rotation to get them installed. Every set of wheels that I found that WOULD fit on CL always had no usable tires on them. I had a set of MR7's and Scion Wheels, but i sold those because I needed to save the tire money for bills; I do have an alpine CDE-122 installed though. I'm glad my car has a stock sub installed.

Re: 05 Vibe - Painted Front Grill Black

Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2012 6:34 pm
by Chiadog
I think the new paint job looks great. And it didn't cost Ya a $1000.00. Did you use spray cans? How many did it take? Did you take before pictures?
chia

Re: 05 Vibe - Painted Front Grill Black

Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2012 12:12 pm
by tpollauf
Looks good to me BUT before & after "side by side" comparison pics would really tell the story. Still looks good though :D

Re: 05 Vibe - Painted Front Grill Black

Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 3:06 pm
by AustinG
I was once told that hindsight is always 20/20...nfortunately I didn't think to take any photos before I painted it. :x

Re: 05 Vibe - Painted Front Grill Black

Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2012 8:02 am
by 07cdnvibe
What did you use for paint to do your front grills, I had thought about trim paint but was not sure, I don't want them to glossy and am thinking of eliminating the chrome around the grills some how as well synced that is the only shiney think left on my car lol.

Re: 05 Vibe - Painted Front Grill Black

Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2012 1:03 pm
by Cougar Vibe
AustinG wrote:I was once told that hindsight is always 20/20...nfortunately I didn't think to take any photos before I painted it. :x
Here's a little "grill on grill" action...sorry for the bad pun:

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