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hillmangt
Monday 6th March 2017, 17:14
Just had my first attempt at wrapping and dechromed my grill. Not the easiest thing to start with but results are pretty good. I'm about 95% satisfied as there are some small creases on the corners of the badge.3141031411

Dangerous Dave
Tuesday 7th March 2017, 11:49
Nice, goes with the wheels.

gwrt5
Thursday 18th May 2017, 09:14
I like that mate want to do similar with mine

Gold 'N' Brown
Thursday 18th May 2017, 14:19
You got any close up pics? That must have been a pig to do with so many inward contours! Only experience I have with wrapping is my microwave (yes, microwave, I'm not joking!) and that was a fiddly arse of a job.

hillmangt
Wednesday 31st May 2017, 11:33
I took the grill apart and only wrapped the metal parts. The badge was the hardest part and is now starting to pull and wrinkle. The hot weather has caused it to lift on the surround in places but it sticks back down again. I don't know if this is due to the quality of the wrapping plastic or not. Got it on ebay. I may have to spray it instead but I've never had much success spraying chrome as it suffers from stone chips which then looks a mess. I will try to upload photo later.
Andy

petrolh34d
Wednesday 31st May 2017, 14:40
That looks great. Fair play to you for having a go at wrapping it, I certainly wouldn't have the patience it.

I've had similar experience with black spraying a chrome grille. Even though i sanded it prior to painting, the finish still wasn't perfect, and after a while it inevitably succumbed to stone chips.

Are there any other ways to strip the chrome of a grille like this?

p fandango
Wednesday 31st May 2017, 15:08
Only experience I have with wrapping is my microwave (yes, microwave, I'm not joking!) and that was a fiddly arse of a job.
i've got our microwave to do, green & grey kitchen with a red microwave doesn't go

Gold 'N' Brown
Thursday 1st June 2017, 14:30
i've got our microwave to do, green & grey kitchen with a red microwave doesn't go

Haha, that's hilariously coincidental! We have (had) a Samsung microwave that has sort of metallic red trim all over it, which was fine in our old modern kitchen as it went with lots of other red bits we had. But our current flat had an awful old farty kitchen with minging green tiles everywhere and the red microwave (and toaster and kettle) stuck out like a sore thumb. We just recently had a new kitchen done, and the kettle and toaster I'd replaced with chrome ones a few months back so I decided enough is enough, the microwave has to go. But do I spend £100 on a new microwave? Nope, £2.50 on a sample sized bit of fake brushed aluminium vinyl from eBay and it was sorted. Looks great!

Hairdryer and a craft knife were an absolute must.

sawdan1
Sunday 2nd August 2020, 09:54
Did my grill today with Plasti dip. That worked well but I failed to dechrome the side trim as it peeled straight off
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ben_john7
Wednesday 21st October 2020, 07:45
Did my grill today with Plasti dip. That worked well but I failed to dechrome the side trim as it peeled straight off
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I really liked your work, the grid looks very organic!

sawdan1
Wednesday 21st October 2020, 12:26
Not so organic now.
I hit a kangaroo :(

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Dangerous Dave
Wednesday 21st October 2020, 13:03
Oh dear, did it damage much behind the bumper?

sawdan1
Wednesday 21st October 2020, 23:30
did it damage much behind the bumper?

Hopefully the radar is not damaged, but the mounting bracket snapped, and my aircon condenser punctured. Just waiting on repair quote

kmb
Thursday 22nd October 2020, 12:39
Ah bad luck, sorry to see the damage, hope you're back up and running soon.

eangleyr
Thursday 12th November 2020, 16:30
Not so organic now.
I hit a kangaroo :(

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Hope you get it fixed soon.

Morgan Harris
Thursday 21st January 2021, 05:12
It looks nice, you have changed your car wheel as well.

jonas83
Wednesday 27th January 2021, 14:33
Here in Sweden it's quite common to replace original chrome grilles with black ones :cool: