paintin grille

[Rts54321]

I have a 2002 dover white es, im thinkin i might want to take off that blackish grey colored grille and paint it to match the car. Does anyone know where to go about getting the paint? and if anyone has done this and how it came out? as well as ideas on how to do this ? especially tips on makin the paint stick... any feedback will help....

[SilverDragonGTZ]

shouldnt be too expensive to have it professionally painted....unless you're an excellent painter i wouldnt mess with it...with it bein plastic i'd think you'd need a flex agent in the paint....and that can get tricky

[cardude03]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v688/cardude03/grill.jpg

[cardude03]

i got it done at my shop when i was having some other work done anyways. i cant remember if it was 70bucks cash, or 90 bucks cash, but yeh, thats what my guy charged me. and if you notice, i dont know where he got those grills from, cuz i dont think they are stock, they have that lil fin thing inside in the middle. and as u can see, i also got the parts around the fogs painted.

[Rts54321]

yea! thats what i want done... thats the same color as mine... i think it makes it look alot nicer... some of the mods people do to their cars make it look cheap or just ..i dunno weird things dont look right.. but i think that has a smooth look to it... i want to get my windows tinted now, and i called around today on my break.. and i cant find anywhere that will do the greyish tint... i dont want mirror.. but the kind of transparent type grey tint.. everyplace just did charcoal.. so i dont know what im going to do..... but thanks for the info on that ! im definetly gonna get that done... ill have to search about where to go around my area.... maaco probably is bad or no?

[cardude03]

so why do you want grey tint? i think nice black tint looks pretty good.

got any pix of the kind of tint your looking for? maybe if you just get tint that isnt so dark, it will look grey? i just dont really know what your lookin for, pic might help.

[Rts54321]

https://www.thegalantcenter.org/viewt...t=platinum+tint ('https://www.thegalantcenter.org/viewtopic.php?t=21673&highlight=platinum+tint')


scroll down some.. that white galant is sort of what im talking about.. that kid says its mirror but ive seen mirror tint and its like not even see thru like that....

i cant figure out how to work the link thing.. or the picture thing.. im sorry man

[Rts54321]

http://images.cardomain.com/member_img_a/198000-198999/198253_82.jpg

there is a good picture there of a white galant with platinum tint.. it looks greyish in the light and from angles it looks like regular.. that is what i want..

[mrjaydeeone]

I fixed your link for ya

to do the picture thing you need to right click on that pic and click properties and then copy the address and then

place it like this address
where it says address past the address that you just copied but dont leave a space like I did...its all 1 line

[Rts54321]

thanks.... i was kind of lost.. i just thought i could copy and paste the picture..i just want to get my dang windows tinted! haha i want this different look... and for some reason.. every place i call has no idea what im talking about.. and this one punk kid tried to tell me its illegal.. yet it comes stock on alot of luxary cars i see EVERYDAY and any new lexus suvs back windows has this on it. oh well.. im still tryin to figure out whats goin on..

[mrjaydeeone]

check the link how I set it up in your post above with the picture in it and you will see what I am talking about

[cardude03]

i think maybe if you just get normal tint, but not soo dark, u might get what your looking for. ill see if i can find one of my pix, my front windows arent that dark, i think like 38%....

its a pretty big pic, so ill just link it...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v688/car...05/IMG_1105.jpg ('http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v688/cardude03/MOD05/IMG_1105.jpg')

[Rts54321]

ahh kind of ... the other stuff still looks greyish mirrorish.. but not shiny like mirror tint... i dont know.. to me they have totally different looks but oh well... if i cant get it done the way i want it.. im probably just gonna hold off before i get it done. i dont know.... thanks for all the help tho..

[cardude03]

my back windows, which have darker tint, i think they might be sorta mirrorish. i have seen some dull tints, but mine is really shiny and reflective, here are some pix, the one where you see the garage, its actually a reflection off my window, some people dont believe me, lol.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v688/car...03/IMG_1102.jpg ('http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v688/cardude03/IMG_1102.jpg')

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v688/car...03/IMG_1100.jpg ('http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v688/cardude03/IMG_1100.jpg')

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v688/car...03/IMG_1103.jpg ('http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v688/cardude03/IMG_1103.jpg')

[DryBear]

i got it done at my shop when i was having some other work done anyways. i cant remember if it was 70bucks cash, or 90 bucks cash, but yeh, thats what my guy charged me. and if you notice, i dont know where he got those grills from, cuz i dont think they are stock, they have that lil fin thing inside in the middle. and as u can see, i also got the parts around the fogs painted.

Actually that's how the stock grilled for the 02-03 are - the little fin things in the middle help support the horizontal slats and keep them from sagging. Some GTZ came stock with colormatched grilles, so you might check around.

If you want to paint it yourself, you can get the paint from http://www.paintscratch.com ('http://www.paintscratch.com') - I got some paint from them and it was pretty much an exact color match.

[Rts54321]

wow those really are pretty reflective.. i like that.. bout is that illegal.. it seems awful dark..? i dont know.. all this input definetly helps !

[cardude03]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(wanderingpinoy)</div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(cardude03)</div><div class='quotemain'>i got it done at my shop when i was having some other work done anyways. i cant remember if it was 70bucks cash, or 90 bucks cash, but yeh, thats what my guy charged me. and if you notice, i dont know where he got those grills from, cuz i dont think they are stock, they have that lil fin thing inside in the middle. and as u can see, i also got the parts around the fogs painted.</div>

Actually that's how the stock grilled for the 02-03 are - the little fin things in the middle help support the horizontal slats and keep them from sagging. Some GTZ came stock with colormatched grilles, so you might check around.

If you want to paint it yourself, you can get the paint from http://www.paintscratch.com ('http://www.paintscratch.com') - I got some paint from them and it was pretty much an exact color match.</div>

hey, ur right len, for some reason, last time i checked, i thought they stopped colormatching on the 01 gtz's. but also as i was looking online, the 02-03 gtz's have colormatched front grills, but the parts around the fogs are still black. and i guess i just never noticed the lil vertical fins when my grill was black, hmm.

[cardude03]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Rts54321)</div><div class='quotemain'>wow those really are pretty reflective.. i like that.. bout is that illegal.. it seems awful dark..? i dont know.. all this input definetly helps !</div>

well i dont know what kind of laws you have in your state, each state could have different laws. but in california, the windows behind drivers side and front passengers side can be ask dark as you want. but the front windows are illegal to tint, but as long as your not too dark, the cops wont really bother you, unless they are just being asses.

[str8304]

http://memimage.cardomain.net/member_images/2/web/422000-422999/422032_195_full.jpg

[datapurge]

if you can find a color to match the paint, Krylon Fusion in th can is pretty good, i painted my grille with that paint in bluw, its made for plastics and requires no sanding. I tell you it worked awesome and its withstood the elements for quite some time now, some pics are at

http://www.electrosonica.com/datapage ('http://www.electrosonica.com/datapage')

click Galant, then under that group theres a bunch of different albums of my car. If you click on painted grille you can see my car with the grille painted. Not the greatest pictures but they give you an idea.

Also any pics too large to view, just mouse over "size" and change the percent of it.

Hope this helps https://www.thegalantcenter.org/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif