So payday is just around the corner and I want to start going all Stealth now my VRS has a little poke First things first is painting that horrible chrome grill. I'm more than happy to take it to get professionally painted (if anybody has a rough price it would be great?) In order so save money I'm willing to prep the item as I have a little painting experience. Getting the Chrome off of the grill will be the hardest bit. Sanding would take a ****e load of work and although I don't mind putting in some elbow grease, I'm sure there are better ways about it. I've read about people using Bleach? I know a lot of people on here have painted grills so I'm sure I could get some useful information

 

Cheers

 

Dan

You can easily do it yourself mate . I have a spare one you can have if you wanted to practice on it if you're local to me lol.

Sand it down, wet tac cloth to remove dust, primer, paint, lacquer . Halfords sell the black magic spray paint.

You can easily do it yourself mate . I have a spare one you can have if you wanted to practice on it if you're local to me lol.

Sand it down, wet tac cloth to remove dust, primer, paint, lacquer . Halfords sell the black magic spray paint.

Oh wow. Unfortunately I'm a few hours away but I'd be more than happy to pay for postage, packaging and a pint if you could ship it

wilkinsons sell a draper multi tool (£15ish) which is a mini sander and cutting tool I used one to sand my grill it took 20mins and had some old black smooth rite spray in the garage job done after 3-4 coats of spray 

to remove the grill there is a load of plastic tabs be very carful as they will be brittle and may snap or crack the grill when removing it . 

wilkinsons sell a draper multi tool (£15ish) which is a mini sander and cutting tool I used one to sand my grill it took 20mins and had some old black smooth rite spray in the garage job done after 3-4 coats of spray 

to remove the grill there is a load of plastic tabs be very carful as they will be brittle and may snap or crack the grill when removing it . 

I took my current chrome grill off before to wrap it so I know how to get it off fine I'm sorta looking for a replacement grill to do it to so I don't have to commute with no grill. Cheers for the help

Im sure I read on here somewhere when I was looking to do mine a couple of years ago to stick it in a bucket of bleach for a day or so and it should eat away the chrome look stuff.

I painted mine 1st but it stone chipped really easily, so in the end i used Plastidip and its been fine ever sine.  I even like the matt black against the gloss black.

Mine is plasti dipped. Easy enough to do, no primer etc. But I'm not keen on the matte look now, looks like suede with how dirty it is. Plan to strip, sand and colour code it next year.

I've played with Plasti Dip before and the jet wash took it straight off! haha. But yeah I'm looking for gloss black anyway. I'd just key the chrome but like mentioned, it would stone chip really easy. Tempted to try the bleach method but don't want to ruin it if it doesn't work haha

I wrapped mine in gloss black vinyl instead painted it and it got a few chips which annoyed me so wrapped it instead