okay so i was really bored yesterday and decided to sand down this:



i forgot to take a pic of it before it was sanded down... before it was all scratched it and it looked horrible.... what do you guys think? sanding it down makes it look allot better with the car dont ya think?

 

Only if you have 99TL
You Could have just chrome it out

 

I like it. Might do that later on

 

it looks real clean man.. i love it

 

Not bad.

 

I painted mine with the metalcast ground coat then I clear coated it. Now eveytime the sun decides to shine bright on the shift plate, it sparkles like crazy.

 

looks like new...

 

i did almost the same thing, i painted it a glossy black with a clear coat, all around the sides and everything, then i got bored of it after a while because it looked too plain, so i sanded the top down to the "off white" color and made sure all the sanded grooves were straight(brushed aluminum effect), and it gave it a 3d effect because of the black on the sides and inside, ill post pictures 2morro...

 

^^^^^ yeah post that picture man...we would like to see it. Or should I say I would like to see it. I need to do something with mine. Some old lady had the car before I bought it...so its all scratched up. When ever I get some free time on my hands, I will paint it.

 

oh and my bad, forgot the reason I start commeting. Your plate looks really good. However, why can't we get the chrome in our 2000+? Have anyone tried to paint it chrome???

 

i have no idea why.... but yeah.. has anyone ever tried painting it chrome? but now i dont know what to do with the plate now... should i paint it Satin Silver and clear coat it or should i just leave it..... i mean.. it looks nice this way but iunno if it would look nice if i repainted it

 

It looks good...I need to do this for my mom's TL. I think mine is still okay. All you did was just sand it down?

 

what i did was just sanded the top part and left the inside of the plate the original color that it was normally painted and keep the paint on the sides of the plate.. and it looks really clean once you do it..

 

it looks pretty good, clean and simple.

 

Heres mine painted with metalcast ground coat, and I paited the trim around the shiftgate gunmetal (same color as my headlight housings):

 

looks dusty....j/k the sparkle is good and the sanded down look is real nice but I will stick to my chrome.

 

loooks so shiney XD haha... about the blue lights in for the shifts, did you use blue filter paper or did you use LEDs?

 

A single type 74 LED.

 

okay so i am thinking about to do that but i dont know how to remove the part to get into so i can change the bulbs and also if i removed it how would i be able to stick it back on...

 

Dont worry, this comes apart so easily, dig your figernails under the outer trim of the shift gate and pull up, once that has come apart you can easily remove the shiftplate by pulling up on it. with the light module everything comes apart just by pulling it up it should reveal the bulb, then just simply replace the bulb with the LED.

 

All of the 1999 TLs have shiftplates that were originally chrome, but then Acura decided to paint them black before putting them into the cars. So if you have a 1999 TL, you can soak the shift plate in some paint remover and it will reveal the chrome. But from 2000 on, they just used a black plastic shift plate. And although the 1999 shift plate fits in 2000-2003 TLs, since the 1999 was a 4-speed, it's missing one of the shift gates that is in the 2000-2003 (the 1 position).

 

The shift gates are silver.

 

Looks really clean, tell me what did u use, im thinking to do that on my day off.

 

i just used sand paper... i didnt get the really rough sand paper but it goes around 3bucks at shucks XD

 

how did you take it out to sand iit? I was thinking of painting mine but after seeing what you did i want to sand it now.

 

Oops, yeah replace the word "black" with "silver" in my first post. But the rest still makes sense.

 

i like the sanded dull look.

 

to remove it you are going to have to remove the shift nob, then once that is removed, pop out the outer piece by popping it out with your fingers or use a flat head screw driver, then pop out the shift plate.

 

Alright Thanks. I'll try that.

 

painted it in SSM

same color as exterior

here is mine

 

Does anybody know the part number for the bulbs inside the shiftplate?

 

Think I'm gonna try this....how rough was the sand paper that you used?

 

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