My concern is the grill chipping! Has anyone had their grill painted for more than a year and not had issues with it chipping, etc.?

I think it looks GREAT but I don't want it to look tacky, etc.

ya well ive had it for almost 6 months now and noo chips

If you get some chips in it just sand it down again and repaint it.
I just recently redid my grill just cause it had a few chips in it.

I've had the grille on flat black paint for almost a year, and there are several chips on it. They are not very noticeable until you get within 1-2 feet of the car. I expected that since I did not put as many coats of paint and clearcoat as I wanted to. I'll have to find some time to re-do the grille.

Has anyone tried this on the chrome around the windows? Does it look good?

so what is the best kind of paint to use for this? Enamel based or not?

Did the Back emblems, next is the front grille. Im going to do the grille in a gloss Black and the Infiniti Logo in Matte Black.

Wow, that looks good.

tough your car is like a stealth batmobile

next on the list:

DIY Black front Grill
PC OEM Rims
BlueBatmobile GTR Vinyl Overlays
Blacked out Clear Corners


Any other suggestions im open to idea's

i did this a couple of days ago..i used the same exact paint/materials as the OP
4 coats-primer
7 coats-matte black
4 coats-clear coat

Nice job. I have the Caribbean blue on my G and will being doing this soon. Seeing yours makes me want to do mine right now. I think this DIY looks best on the light blue G's IMHO.

One question on the emblem. Are you guys paining the tops of it(and maybe insides?) and if so Im assuming its the exact same process(prep, paint, etc.) as the rest of the grill?

I tried to look at the pics on here but they're not close enough on the emblem to get a good look. Saw one that was black but didn't know if that was paint or was a shadow from the pic's angle.

great thread on this DIY!

oh well i took the emblem out before painting it. just a quick push from the back of the emblem and pops right out.

so my whole emblem including the top is chrome.

after 7 months or so im finally getting chips lol. gotta REPAinT!

SICK!!!

what rims are you going to get???