Coy
03-29-2006, 02:06 PM
im not a fan of all the chrome stuff on these cars, when i first got the car i made it my first goal to get rid of all of the chrome on it. well im still workin on it due to that crazy thing called life. lol
most of it hasnt been a problem, colour matching it with the rest of teh black all and prepping it and whatnot. the only problem ive come across is teh door handles and the chrome strip right under the door windows. well the strip i think i have a solution, but the doors im still a little confuzzled. i originally attempted to remove them and repaint them just as i did with the rest of the chrome, but i never figured out how to get them off. this is still what i would prefer to do and the main point of the post. not if i can get them off i would more rather replace them with 3g handles if they would fit.
my other idea was to mask off the whole side of the car and paint them on the car still. well, that worked but they wherent so easy to prep and not the paint is peeling off. unfortuneately right after i did this to one side i had another great idea... to get some scrap vinyl in black and attach it just to where the metal was.
ok, cliff notes.... lol
what would you do?
remove them and paint the whole thing, leave tehm on and vinyl the metal, remove them and replace with 3g, or scrape off the paint and say fuck that shit. keep in mind i had major issues trying to get them off the car and still havent figured out how.
most of it hasnt been a problem, colour matching it with the rest of teh black all and prepping it and whatnot. the only problem ive come across is teh door handles and the chrome strip right under the door windows. well the strip i think i have a solution, but the doors im still a little confuzzled. i originally attempted to remove them and repaint them just as i did with the rest of the chrome, but i never figured out how to get them off. this is still what i would prefer to do and the main point of the post. not if i can get them off i would more rather replace them with 3g handles if they would fit.
my other idea was to mask off the whole side of the car and paint them on the car still. well, that worked but they wherent so easy to prep and not the paint is peeling off. unfortuneately right after i did this to one side i had another great idea... to get some scrap vinyl in black and attach it just to where the metal was.
ok, cliff notes.... lol
what would you do?
remove them and paint the whole thing, leave tehm on and vinyl the metal, remove them and replace with 3g, or scrape off the paint and say fuck that shit. keep in mind i had major issues trying to get them off the car and still havent figured out how.