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Adios Chrome
Thursday, March 12, 2009 2:58 PM
All these dechroming posts made me jealous, so I refinished my grille







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Re: Adios Chrome
Thursday, March 12, 2009 3:00 PM
cool, but now the lights stick out like crazy



Re: Adios Chrome
Thursday, March 12, 2009 3:02 PM
I should have my black chrome LED markers repaired soon, and I'll looking to painting my headlights when the weather improves.





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Re: Adios Chrome
Thursday, March 12, 2009 3:42 PM
Wow I seriously like your Jeep. Awesome color and the wheels look perfect.

Just not a fan of the Johnny5 headlights though.



Re: Adios Chrome
Thursday, March 12, 2009 4:09 PM
hehe Johnny5. I'll agree the headlights are pretty ugly, but they're one of those function before form deals. They're real bi-xenons, and work 100x better than the crappy headlights that came with our Jeeps. Here's a link to them (some night shots too)
http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=940046






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Re: Adios Chrome
Thursday, March 12, 2009 6:00 PM
did you coat the grill or is it an entire new one? If its painted or coated what did you use?



Re: Adios Chrome
Thursday, March 12, 2009 6:06 PM
- I took the chrome grille and cleaned it
- scuffed it
- cleaned it again
- gave it 2 coats of black primer
- 2 coats flat black paint (24hours apart)
- 1 coat clearcoat





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Re: Adios Chrome
Thursday, March 12, 2009 6:13 PM
oh and the primer, paint and clearcoat were just your regular dupli-color rattle can stuff from the autoparts store.





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Re: Adios Chrome
Thursday, March 12, 2009 6:13 PM
damn I was hoping you figured out something different. I did the same on my front chrome H emblem and it rock chips way to easily.



Re: Adios Chrome
Thursday, March 12, 2009 6:20 PM
I'm worried about that too.
Thankfully Jeep parts are cheap, so I can pick-up a new grille (in black) if this one goes to heck..





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Re: Adios Chrome
Friday, March 13, 2009 7:38 AM
so then its still chrome..... and this post is just a bunch of lies!!!! lol

i agree.. get those headlights to blend in a bit more!!




Re: Adios Chrome
Sunday, March 15, 2009 5:58 PM
Very nice!! Looks great and it goes well with the graphite rims.







"Remember do what you like because you have to drive it."--Me
Re: Adios Chrome
Monday, March 16, 2009 3:52 PM
Actually, I had the rims powdercoated in hammertone. It's supposedly indestructible



Here's a link to my rims tread
http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=965943




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Re: Adios Chrome
Tuesday, March 17, 2009 2:16 PM
Very very nice! I see you don't half-ass your stuff.



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