Painting front grill - like VECTRAPOGO's looks well sweet

[nickc]

hi

any1 know the best paint for painting your front grill black?

Vectrapogo - clocked yours and think it is will sweet! think im gonna do mine all black tho. if you could let me know how you did it id appreciate it!

cheers

Nickc

[Spikey©]

Here's how i'd do it.

Get some plastic primer from halfrauds, cheap as chips and does a good job. Mask off the bits you don't want to paint. You can take the grille off for spraying, it's real simple there's 8 cross head screws holding it on (nuts on an Irmy grille).

Pop down you local Vx dealer and get a spray paint pack in your cars body colour, you mention black so assume it's Black Sapphire? You get a tin of paint and a tin of laquer, should be less than a fiver!

Couple of coats each of primer, paint and then laquer should do the trick.

[nickc]

wicked, cheers for the speedy reply mate.

my car is silver - was going to go for the matt black finish, same principle tho i guess! just gotta get the right matt black paint.

[Spikey©]

Plenty of choice there at halfrauds for matt black paint, I think they also sell matt finish laquer too, but don't quote me on that

[nickc]

cheers. will check them out later! will post some before and after pics when i get the hang of it! lol

[PIMM]

I had mine done 6 months ago, they painted on top of the chrome and it is still good for new. Couple of stone chips but that's easy sorted. It cost me £10 to be colour coded in Bristol. (bargain).

[nickc]

that looks well sweet on your black gsi mate. £10 to have it done is a bargain no doubt!

undecided whether to get it colour coded (star silver) or go for the matt black finish now!!

[ed taylor]

Mine is star siver too, but I would imagine that black would look better, my personal opion though.

[nickc]

reckon black is the way to go - although the new vectra they had on top gear week before last had the 'V' colour coded blue and that looked good.

[BlueRob]

That grill looks great PIMM....I´m going to do the same trick with mine....