With reference to http://briskoda.net/fabia-i/chrome-black/145224/1/

Seeing as my father works in a body shop I decided to get it done properly at a cost of about £3 on bleach and a baby bath (I bet tesco wondered why I bought 20 litres of the stuff)

Anyway, seeing as a black magic Fabia was in for repair, the grill got a licking too. FOC

Definately better I'd say

Black looks so much better! I tried Tesco's bleach but had no luck :confused: Was in there a week and all it did was slightly pitt!

Looks good thou

Yeah I found that if you rob mothers thick domestos it works best. Just rubbed the rest off with p80 sandpaper then p120 and finally my dad finished it off at work with some p500 pads

So the bleach destroys the chrome ready for painting?

/\ yip use thick bleach tho... think stuff is useless... i used the same technique... 18 months on could do with a respray must be all that warp speed im doing

I used a mixture of tesco's 28p thin and some thick stuff.

It breaks it down. Goes green then black and just washes off.

I got impatient and sanded the rest off