Painted Grille
 

so i decided to look to buy a grille on ebay today, and suprisingly grilles were cheap, billet ones were like $40.................and then there was this guy selling the stock plastic grilles for $25, but he painted them first and called them "custom grilles" :tired: , so that gave me an idea, i took mine off and gave it 5 coats of semigloss black and it turned out nice IMO, but now im thinking i should paint it to match my paint job, :15: i dunno, wat do u guys think? also should i put one of those chain-link fence looking inserts behind it?

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yes, im aware that my front end needs some work... hehe

the black looks pretty cool... I'd def. do the mesh behind the grill... get some pics of it during the day

looks good..ive been thinking of doing the same but white to color match the truck...

ty.....i think im gonna have to go with the mesh (lol...thats the word i was looking for), because these stock grilles are so wide open, ill have another pic tommorow in the daylight though.

I would color match the grille and maybe paint the mesh black.

why not paint red mesh to accent the grille, yet still match your truck?

i did the same thing to my truck, made it look 100x better.
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looks good thats the same thing i did to my brothers ranger

crap... i forgot to take a daylit picture and now its dark again, but u get the idea......has anyone had any problem with their painted grilles in the rain or snow? i just used a spraycan and clear coat

Edit: just read franks suggestion, great idea! think im gonna try that :afro:

I think u should put the mesh behind it and paint that red

i think it looks pretty good

looks good....i want to color match my chrome bumpers and grille....anyone got red bumpers they wanna trade for chrome off my 02

I say color match it to the rest of the truck and put the mesh being it, that'll look good!

uhh...can i just use the mesh that they sell at home depot or is it supposed to be made out of different material for cars?

One thing that I had painted on my 95 was that plastic molding on the bumper. I thought it looked pretty good.

yep....that and a tint line on the top of my windshield are next.....im trying to make my front end look better.

I have a brushed aluminum speed grille that I had powder coated gloss black. It goes great with my white truck. Check out my cardomain page for pics.

looks better than stock but i do like the mesh idea

There's no pics of the grille...just the stocker :shrug:

im gonna color match mine to my truck... what exactly do i need to do.. anything special??? do i just use that duricolor paint that we sell at oreillys???

I used rustoleum for plastics on mine and it held up awesome....til the flames got to it. lol