I want to paint the plastic "chrome" trim piece on my front bumper, I was thinking I'd sand it, do a few coats of niteshade, and clear it. Has anyone else at any experience with this? Will it come out crappy? Help?!

 

you could always plastidip it. i did that to my rims. or night shades. i night shaded my 2gen hood badge, looks sweet.

 

thanks, any other opinions?

 

Plasti-Dip... no prep needed other than cleaning the surface and it's durability is pretty good, rigt about halfway between auto paint and bedliner.
Other nice thing about it is if you don't like it or ever want to go back to the chrome, you can slit it with a sharp knife or scalpel and peel it off, it's a synthetic rubberized coating and because you didn't sand the hell out of the chrome, it's good as new underneath...

 

From what I've read when looking into doing it Niteshade over chrome tends to have a purplish tint. Don't use Metalcast, I painted my grill with it and it doesn't last for crap.

 

thanks, plastidip it is then.

 

plastic dip is good for a flat black, did my wheels with it.
but i used nightshade on all my chrome emblems and i think it looks
sweet almost like a shiny powdercoat. if its purple just do more light coats till its black.

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edit: 1 coat in middle, 2 on outside edge

 

I painted both mine and Travis's (Trucky) bumpers and you want to use self etching primer. I sand the surface, hit it with self etching primer, regular primer then wet sand it. I then spray it with a HPLV paint sprayer and lastly hit it with clear coat. Good luck.

 

I just plasti dipped my rims and i like it. Text me and ill send u a pic. 781-589-1110

 

Here's a couple of pics from one of the Ram kids who did his, came out good, I thought...

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