Painting 2000 grill and bumper

[porschemann]

I have seen the colour matched painted grills and bumper top half on the 2005 trucks, and have wondered if anyone on here has painted their 99-2004 grill and top half of the bumper to give it that look of a 2005 style. If so, how did it come out? Anyone have any pics?

Thanks!

[belz]

painted mine black

[porschemann]

Looks good painted black. How did you prep the chrome for paint? My body guy does not think paint will stick unless the chrome is ground off. I wanted to paint just the top lip area of my stock bumper body colour along with the grill. The truck is that deep burgundy/maroon colour and I have seen 2005's with a painted topper on the bumper and though it looked pretty good.

[belz]

Grinding away all the chrome is the best way. I just sanded it to scuff it up and hit it first with adhesion promoter. Then I went over it with primer and finally the black spray on bedliner. It ocassionally may chip but since I did it with bedliner, touch up is easy. If I were to do a color match I would definitely try to prep the chrome better or get it all off. The top of the 05 style bumpers is plastic. They are kinda reverse from ours.


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