I really really really love the look of the OEM grill with the horizontal bars paitned black and leaving the OEM Infiniti emblem chrome. Is there ANY POSSIBLE WAY to do this mod without the damn thing chipping. I want to do the mod but I'm not comfortable doing it knowing that it will chip and look awful in 6 months.

Has ANYONE on here painted the grill and done a clear bra or something to make sure it stays looking the same?

 

Chips are probably going to happen no matter what you do and I don't think it would be very easy to clear bra it but maybe with enough time and money you could probably do it.

 

i sanded my down really well with high quality sand paper then sprayed the whole thing a flat black it looks awesome i've had may compliments, i did the same thing with the back emblems

 

just repaint it when the chips gets noticeable

 

^---agreed

 

If anyone comes up with a way to stop the chipping let me know and I'll paint my front bumper the same way!

 

Any picture on this diy ?

 

I cleared mine 5 times and it is holding up very well

 

i just keep repainting mine with flat black !@

 

If you are doing a flat/matte black color then just use PlastiDip instead of paint. It goes on like paint but dries a rubbery film. We did the chrome on my husbands car about 10k miles ago and not a single chip in it. The best part is if you don't like it then once it is dry you can just peel it off in a big sheet.

This was before, see the chrome around the grill.


And after, so much better


I also used it on the chrome piece on my old WRX

 

^^ you're a better greese monkey than your husband ehehehe, my wife hates my G

 

^+1 thats what i did

 

When we met he wasn't into modding cars other then a little bit of audio. Now I have told him all I know and he loves doing performance mods. In fact on Sunday we lowered my G, it was so much fun.

 

Hold up, hold up, hold up.

Okay so you would sand the grill down regardless and how many layers are we talking about doing? And it most likely would not chip down the road? I really like this idea, though.

 

^^ I wish my wife was 1/2 of you into cars.

people, since that you are repaint your grill, why would you worry about being chipped off down the road. Just repaint it again when it happens, its just the grill, not the whole bumper.