Over the last couple of days at work i've made the most of my lunch hour and painted my grill. I bought some Plastidip a few months ago and have been itching to de chrome the front of the Octy, so I finally did it this week. Pics Below

First I removed the whole grill from the car and split the chrome part from the rest of it and removed the old manky Skoda badge

Next came three coats of Plastidip. Its very easy to use as you dont really have to worry about it running etc and no real prep work is required.

First coat went on nice and easy and looked ok. Then I gave it a second coat and it looked rubbish. Then the 3rd coat went on and it looked ok again.

I left it to dry over night and this was the outcome, Also note new Skoda badge fitted.

And finally a few pics of it fitted back on the car.

Actually pretty chuffed with how it turned out. I may even give it a try on my spare alloy next and see how that comes out.

Looks good.

One question regarding the badge, do you just pry it off or is there a technique to it? (Just got myself some new badges to fit)

The badge is held on by sticky tape and one two lugs which go through the grill. One of these lugs is heated up and flatted on the back of the grill so the badge cannot come off. From the rear it looks like the head of a rivet. I just twisted the head off with a pair of pliers and pushed the badge off from the back by putting a small screwdriver head through the hole left and pushing on the back of the badge. Once I fitted the new badge I heated up the the lug with my lighter so it was melted and flattened it down against the back of the grill with the base of my pen.

Looks great.

Looks good there.

The Grill badge does not really need to be heated and lug pressed in. Most owners just refit badge and use lugs as centralisation and let the sticky backing hold badge in.

That does look cool

So thats that plastidip stuff is it?? Is there any texture to it at all bud ?

Looks good. Been thinking about painting mine colour of car as have a can of Black magic. But that does look good, so could be tempted this way. black on black.

That looks nice I done the same to my octy but havent done a good job, it has to come off to be done again. This might be a silly question but how the hell do you put the pictures up, please tell me lol  

That looks great

Have you coated your normal black trim with anything? Looks very black, mine looks quite grey at times. :(

^{Yeah that Plastidip. I used that as I thought it may last a bit longer than painting ie stones chips etc. Its has a similar texture to the bumps strips but not so pronounced. I use Meguires tyre gel on my bump strips and it brings them up a treat. The car is actually minging at the moment and they still look black.}

The tyre gel works a treat.

I tried c4 permanent trim restorer, didn't work on the bump strips but did work on everything else external.

Will try tyre gel as I have that, though I may have messed them up with the c4.

looks sweet as dude. Nice work.