Anyone painted their front grilles?

[AJP]

I need to replace mine as my nobhead neighbour reversed into it, and the honeycomb is more grey than black now, so I'm thinking about getting the honeycomb and two fog grilles painted to freshen things up.

I'm thinking more of a satin black than gloss so it's not ott. But maybe gloss could work if I got some open fog grilles.

Anyone done this?

I'm not interested in any 'back to black' type of product, in my experience even the best products are a bit weak.

Cheers.

[Grant w]

My grill was faded really bad it had gone a light grey colour and looked awful so I did exactly what you said. Took it off fairly simple just 4 screws. Then I masked around the red striping on the grill and painted it with halfords satin black spray paint. It looks so much better it makes the front end of the car look brand new!

[Grant w]

I would post a pic but I'm a complete noob and don't know how

[TAPPY]

I had mine painted at work a little while back. We used solid black but matt lacquer as I wasn't too keen on them being glossy


Not a great pic but you get the idea 

[AJP]

Cheers for the replies. I think I'll get this done at some point then, looks much better.

[MC71]

I painted one of my grills Gloss black, all 4 sections, looked ok but even with primer, undercoat and paint it did peel a little after while so I just bought new grills..lower, top and fog.

Try plasti dip.

[Adam0604]

Or wrap maybe? Though I don't know if wrapping the honeycomb is possible, would be a nightmare job

[Shoduchi]

Or wrap maybe? Though I don't know if wrapping the honeycomb is possible, would be a nightmare job

Good luck wraping it!

There are car detail products that rejuvenesce the black plastics from bumpers and grills. I bought one from Autoglym but I still haven't had time/patience to use it.

[AJP]

Or wrap maybe? Though I don't know if wrapping the honeycomb is possible, would be a nightmare job

Good luck wraping it!

There are car detail products that rejuvenesce the black plastics from bumpers and grills. I bought one from Autoglym but I still haven't had time/patience to use it.

Yeah there won't be any wrapping going on here!

Or plastic trim products. I kind of want a  permanent solution.

Nice semi-gloss black will do the trick.

[Softishman]

I have; 

[r5gtt]

Clean the grill and give it a fine sand then get your spray can out 

[Softishman]

[samiul11]

How? Planning to do this in the summer

[dronners]

for grey grills. a going over with a heat gun may bring most of the colour back 

[Softishman]

Paintshop