Black grille, the normally chrome bit

[tonyppe]

hey...
ive been seeing more and more BMs with black grills, think it looks quite sweet. what is it you lot do? just spray it matt black?

[Gouki]

you can actually buy it as a piece, which you can spray to own car colour if you wish.

[Adammcf]

A can of Halfords Satin black did the trick for me. lol

[tonyppe]

sorted

how about making the rest of the grill black? its black already but its a bit on the grey side.
would back to black be fine? or just look like a plastic gay mans face ?

[d6dph]

What did you prime it with? (guess what im doing tomorrow lol)

[johnono]

plastic primer dave ;)

otherwise it´ll flake

key, spirit wipe, plastic primer, paint

[Splondike]

As Johnono says, make sure you rub it down to get a good key for the primer and give it two coats. I used the halfords Satin black too, again two coats and it came up alright...

See this thread for some pics of mine...

http://www.e30zone.co.uk/modules.php?na ... highlight=

[steveoz32]

Or you could just be a real cheapskate like me and remove the chrome trim lol.

My second preference would be to spray it satin, but certainly not pay good money to someone who has just done the same lol.

[tonyppe]

when you remove the trim, does it leave a nice black plastic thing?
or does the whole thing just get left out?

[johnono]

if u mean, to detatch the chrome kidneys.. then no, its best to leave them on and spray the entire peice complete.

to remove the grill slats either side is easy, just a few clips on top, and a couple of screws down by the headlights.

even better yet, just buy a new set of grills if u´re flush ;)

[tonyppe]

in ur sig, looks like u got the same wheels on that motor as mine. 18" right?

[johnono]

17 bbs RX II 2 peice and i like ´em

[EThreezero]

Black grille's yeahhh!! join the dark side. Talking of which johno whats with the Darth in the sig-pic thats was MY little touch of uniqueness

[johnono]

oh no no no, ive been on the darkside for quite some time now ;)

[tonyppe]

darkside? wtf?

na my wheels are different, i got BK cheapies lol.

[Hyperion]

oh no no no, ive been on the darkside for quite some time now ;)

hahahahaha nice one johnono, love that sig, makes me want to go out and get a e36 just so i can use it

[johnono]

give in to the darkside

[TW166Y]

black is well cool... think ill be doing this mod at the weekend

[TW166Y]

whats the best stuff to prep it up with?

[tonyppe]

a little bit of man love

[TW166Y]

perv ........ serious though now, what grain etc and what kind of paper to take the shione off so it can be sprayed... im going to do my grill and kindney... cheers lads

[Rosc0PColtrane]

perv ........ serious though now, what grain etc and what kind of paper to take the shione off so it can be sprayed... im going to do my grill and kindney... cheers lads

Me thinks this is a great idea. I'll also be doing it shortly. Should imagine some rather smooth wt n dry is required.

Are we laquering our handiwork too? Think I may go for a rummage around a scrappy to tea leaf one to practice on.

[tonyppe]

dont get caught tea leafing tho.

what looks better then? matt black or shiney? i personally like matt. also the kidney grill is the normally chrome bit yes?

[Rosc0PColtrane]

dont get caught tea leafing tho.

what looks better then? matt black or shiney? i personally like matt. also the kidney grill is the normally chrome bit yes?

Ah stealers expect a bit of tea leafing. Hence their silly prices, they're charging you for what you've crammed in your pockets. I'm undecided about Matt or Gloss. Think it would need co-ordinating with the grille?

[TW166Y]

personally i think you will have to do the grill too as the kidney would look brand new against your tired gone off grey look grill this is deffo why ill be doing both...

[TW166Y]

wet n dry 'smooth' ..... plastic primer and satin black... job done... im thinking i may do a german flag too in the grill itself.. like the m-tech design but only with the german colours... will only be small but i think it will look great??

[Rosc0PColtrane]

wet n dry 'smooth' ..... plastic primer and satin black... job done... im thinking i may do a german flag too in the grill itself.. like the m-tech design but only with the german colours... will only be small but i think it will look great??

Horses for courses. Was reading about those cool German plates but I'm not German. Makes me laugh how we are so comforable branding any nations flags other than our own for fear of offending some lefty who interprets it as a fascist statment. Seems like we are embarrassed to be English!

Anyway rant over!! Have your soap box back. Got to say, spraying the grille will be a right fecker!! What with all the tiny gaps. Depends on how you do the German flag really. I peronally wouldn't do it. What about lacquering?

[TW166Y]

Mate im proud as fcuk to be English................................
However you look at it the car is still german i just think its cool and retro... im currently in the middle of euroing my touring, wide rims, ddropping her soon and i just thought it would be a nice touch....MY BAD

[Rosc0PColtrane]

Mate im proud as fcuk to be English................................
However you look at it the car is still german i just think its cool and retro... im currently in the middle of euroing my touring, wide rims, ddropping her soon and i just thought it would be a nice touch....MY BAD

It's cool mate, not a dig, I was reflecting on how comfortable we'd be with painting a german flag on our car but how conscious we'd be and feel about painting our own flag on our car!!! Think about it!!!

Go for it see how it would look.

What about laquer and the grille?

[Cloggy Saint]

I found the easiest way of getting a black kidney grill was to spend $20 on ebay. Not a diy job but original matt black

[tonyppe]

Mate im proud as fcuk to be English................................
However you look at it the car is still german i just think its cool and retro... im currently in the middle of euroing my touring, wide rims, ddropping her soon and i just thought it would be a nice touch....MY BAD

It's cool mate, not a dig, I was reflecting on how comfortable we'd be with painting a german flag on our car but how conscious we'd be and feel about painting our own flag on our car!!! Think about it!!!

Go for it see how it would look.

What about laquer and the grille?

what do you expect? we got these talibanny bastards taking up whole areas of UK, BANNING christmas decorations cos it offends THEM? what about it offends us? no one cares.
the UK aint united. its all bollocks.

what would look nice is a german flag phased into a UK flag
little touches like that are always nice.
i had a blue mk1 fiesta years ago and took the grill off that and re-done the ford badge to glow blue with little LEDs. original i thought, propper illegal, but im grown up now

[slowlysideways]

annnnnyway, back to the subject?

i managed to do mine today, easiest job ever, cost me £5.98 on a can of plastic primer, and a can of satin black

a little bit of time sees the best results...

[TW166Y]

Mate im proud as fcuk to be English................................
However you look at it the car is still german i just think its cool and retro... im currently in the middle of euroing my touring, wide rims, ddropping her soon and i just thought it would be a nice touch....MY BAD

It's cool mate, not a dig, I was reflecting on how comfortable we'd be with painting a german flag on our car but how conscious we'd be and feel about painting our own flag on our car!!! Think about it!!!

Go for it see how it would look.

What about laquer and the grille?

id personally paint the grill with a little st georges in the corner of my grill.... just dont think it would look right thats all... when the world cups gets started bud my car will be pasted in flags and banners as always i do know what you are saying though i think i just got the wrong end of the stick... im not only doing the kidnay ill be doing the whole grill so it looks like a new front end....

[TW166Y]

what do you expect? we got these talibanny bastards taking up whole areas of UK, BANNING christmas decorations cos it offends THEM? what about it offends us? no one cares.
the UK aint united. its all bollocks.

what would look nice is a german flag phased into a UK flag
little touches like that are always nice.
i had a blue mk1 fiesta years ago and took the grill off that and re-done the ford badge to glow blue with little LEDs. original i thought, propper illegal, but im grown up now [/quote]

i like the german phased into a uk bagde idea... now you have me thinking.... and on the above topic i totally agree

[TW166Y]

annnnnyway, back to the subject?

i managed to do mine today, easiest job ever, cost me £5.98 on a can of plastic primer, and a can of satin black

a little bit of time sees the best results...

looks good mate