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Title: Painted Grill Post by: Icebox on April 29, 2009, 09:14:04 AM Has anyone painted there grill? Is there specific paint that would be better to use?
Title: Re: Painted Grill Post by: Philly Steve on April 29, 2009, 06:31:57 PM viewtopic.php?f=34&t=495 (http://elitecm.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=495)
My body shop used the OEM honda paint with proper prep and priming of course. Title: Re: Painted Grill Post by: Anonymous on April 29, 2009, 06:39:34 PM Quote from: "Icebox" Has anyone painted there grill? Is there specific paint that would be better to use? Abailey4 (Derrick) has also painted his grille and his body shop did a nice job color matching it to the body color. I had my grille painted from a guy from another forum so I will ask him what he used. Title: Re: Painted Grill Post by: Mike on April 29, 2009, 10:14:13 PM I have a silver grill coming in the mail from skizot
Title: Re: Painted Grill Post by: Icebox on April 30, 2009, 07:15:54 AM im not interested in color matching but instead want it to be black to go with all of the other black on the front end. fog lights, lower grill, soon to be blackhoused headlights, etc.
Title: Re: Painted Grill Post by: dizzle on April 30, 2009, 11:05:00 AM i painted mine with krylon fusion paint. its black and i did a little custom paint with my emblems.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v432/illushunz/l_2cf99266012519da14428dcf0a7253-1.jpg) **dont mind the dirty car lol Title: Re: Painted Grill Post by: Icebox on April 30, 2009, 11:41:54 AM Quote from: "dizzle" i painted mine with krylon fusion paint. its black and i did a little custom paint with my emblems. ([url]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v432/illushunz/l_2cf99266012519da14428dcf0a7253-1.jpg[/url]) **dont mind the dirty car lol did you remove the emblem first or just mask it? did you use any kind of clear coat to prevent chipping or would it be safe without it? Title: Re: Painted Grill Post by: Mike on April 30, 2009, 12:23:21 PM You would be better suited to remove the emblem.
Title: Re: Painted Grill Post by: dizzle on April 30, 2009, 12:25:38 PM i masked the emblem which didnt take too long. i masked it 2 different times; one for the H and another for the black gaps if that made sense. i also used a layer of clear coat. no damage so far from what i can see. its up to you if you want to use a clear coat or not. theres a rare chance a pebble could hit the grill.
Title: Re: Painted Grill Post by: Abailey4 on April 30, 2009, 12:34:38 PM ^ I wish I could say that cuz I've had a few jump up and smack the grill. Mine has a couple chip spots on the inside of the H emblem from those rare pebbles. But then again just about every road in northern VA has construction goin on.
Title: Re: Painted Grill Post by: Icebox on April 30, 2009, 12:57:45 PM thanks!
Title: Re: Painted Grill Post by: dizzle on April 30, 2009, 01:14:16 PM i would take derricks thought into consideration. if your going to find a lot of pebbles in the road and you follow close to someone, a pebble could hit. id suggest using about 3-4 light coats of what you want to use. then maybe 2-3 of light clear coats.
when i did mine, the clear coat kinda brightened up my grill by 1 shade. just a little side note. Title: Re: Painted Grill Post by: Icebox on April 30, 2009, 01:19:05 PM thanks, and did you do any prep work to the plastic or just spray away?
Title: Re: Painted Grill Post by: dizzle on April 30, 2009, 11:21:31 PM i cleaned it with rubbing alcohol for sure. i dont remember if i scuffed it up a little bit. but do clean it up regardless of any paint project. dont want any blemishes or anything sticking out
Title: Re: Painted Grill Post by: Knocturnal84 on May 04, 2009, 05:42:41 PM i painted mines flat black... got the idea from MTsixspeed (Chris)
Title: Re: Painted Grill Post by: Jeff Likes Bagels on May 21, 2009, 01:43:07 PM I painted my car's grill black, too. I used SEM Color Coat Satin Black.
(http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/9828/dscn3777.jpg) Title: Re: Painted Grill Post by: JC04accord on May 21, 2009, 01:52:25 PM Graphite Pearl ebay grill, picture stolen from Milan hehe.
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3651/3510813275_54dd3a47d2_o.jpg) Title: Re: Painted Grill Post by: Icebox on May 21, 2009, 01:52:26 PM looks good, i dont have any pics of mine yet but mine turned out looking the same.
Title: Re: Painted Grill Post by: ROLO on May 21, 2009, 03:39:12 PM I painted mine OEM to match..
Title: Re: Painted Grill Post by: Mike on May 21, 2009, 06:13:12 PM I have a painted Saitn Silver Grill for sale if anyone wants one?
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