Was doing some cosmetic touch-up on nose, pulled grills to clean and paint satin black and noticed I had only white primer on hand. After priming w/ the white I temporarily stuck them in to see what it would look like. I will likely go with the black but took a couple pictures to share. Look is drastically different and I think maybe makes it look newer which is not desirable, for me anyway. What do you think?
Front Grills in White (Body Color)
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Re: Front Grills in White (Body Color)
It looks okay. I've seen them aluminum colored, black and painted. I think the older honeycomb grills look best aluminum but the others look best in black. Just my opinion of course.
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Re: Front Grills in White (Body Color)
With those wheels I think it would look better with a black lower grill and a chrome painted upper.
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Re: Front Grills in White (Body Color)
I vote for chrome paint on both but i do think the black lower would look ok too.
The white looks too obviously spray painted but the black wheels look pretty cool and mean.
The white looks too obviously spray painted but the black wheels look pretty cool and mean.
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Re: Front Grills in White (Body Color)
+1 I vote "Chrome" paint for both.
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Re: Front Grills in White (Body Color)
Lol... I see that from your picture. Ultimately I'll keep them black although I will replace upper grill w/ ABS honey comb w/ Pininfarina "f" badge in center of it. I am eliminating the hood and trunk badges. I'm guessing many people will ask, "What kind of car is that?"architect wrote:I’m feeling it!
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Re: Front Grills in White (Body Color)
My grills are silver!
I had no emblems for a while.. got a lot of complement about how pretty my Porsche was, lol!
- I like the grill. Personally not a lower case “f” fan. Post more pics of your ride, I think it’s pretty sweet!
I had no emblems for a while.. got a lot of complement about how pretty my Porsche was, lol!
- I like the grill. Personally not a lower case “f” fan. Post more pics of your ride, I think it’s pretty sweet!
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Re: Front Grills in White (Body Color)
This is what the stainless grill looks like would go nice with white....
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Re: Front Grills in White (Body Color)
Ha! I had a Volvo once as a kid and put a Mercedes hood ornament on it. Maybe I'll get some Ferrari badges for the Fiat!architect wrote:
I had no emblems for a while.. got a lot of complement about how pretty my Porsche was, lol!
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Re: Front Grills in White (Body Color)
Revert back to Black this morning.. here is a teaser pic!
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