I have off this summer and some spair time. I been thinking of some cheap odds and ends I can do to the car. I remember seeing a pic somewhere where a member painted or covered the chrome trim on their car. Anyone have it? I was thinking of getting some black vynil and covering the trim up. I was also thinking of doing the same to the front grill. I could either use a matte black or a gloss black. My cars NBP btw. What do you all think?

 

i think it would be a sick look. im going to do my front grille soon but with color matched paint. also theres a guy sellin rolls of vinyl on the BM which he used to do something similar on his car.

 

ok so i'm new... what does NBP stand for?....

 

Nighthawk black pearl

 

I painted the front grill a matte black. This picture just shows the outer trim of the grill but I also painted the wings and left the chrome Acura emblem.

 

i painted my grill body color as well....

 

Paint it body color to match.

here is mine

 

That looks really good. I have a 03 however so the girlls different. But that gives me an idea

 

i was thinkign abotu painting my chrome trim black as well. along with my doorhandles. with this look ass with my DEP?

 

I blacked out the trim on my CL with trimbrite T9005 tape from Amazon.com. 2 rolls. Looks 10x better IMO.

https://acurazine.com/forums/ramblings-12/big-wheels-192924/

Luckily for us coupers, the 03's had color matched grills and handles.

 

can you post of the grill closer up???

Also, is there a how-to on this???

 

The grille is just a 2003 CL grille. OEM bolt-on part...I guess they didn't make the TL's grilles color-matched...

 

Looks nice..Any DIY for 02 TL ??

 

whered you get the lgm paint to do it? i also got a lgm and would rather have that then the chrome trim

 

 

^^ Any auto body paint/supply store should be able to make you some. They have samples of many manufacturer's paint and they should be able to match it. Just give them the paint code on your driver's door jamb and they make you a quart. There are some places that can put it into a spray can for you.

 

I bought it at my local auto paints store and sprayed it.

 

A quart would be over kill. A pint or less would do that and then some. If they dont put it into spray cans ask for them to reduce it for you as well and pick one of these up from home depot (or im sure they can be found in hardware stores and even some paint stores carry them)


Then pick up a spray can of clear anywhere and spray the clear on top.