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Old Sep 16, 2012 | 01:50 PM
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Will do a pic from farther back.

My grille is a RBP grille, garbage IMO, it rusted on me the 1st year. So i blasted, and primed, sanded, primed, painted, sanded, Bed linered it. So hopefully it wont rust anymore.

You can see it brand new, in the top picture. The grille, new up north was close to 900 in the day. I hear theres other out there that copied the style later on that sell for alot less, I think the name is T-rex?? Ill never buy another RBP product again.

I sent the job to the shop just to be sure it will last forever, and have that clean textured look, i Bedlinered, the outershell of the grille, with aerosol style, and it turned out kinda gross. So im happy with the shop job. Ill be doing rockers, and rear bumper as soon as i am able to give up my truck for 4 days.

Edit, And you are right about it looking to busy Chet, Looked cool at the time when i was a kid. Now that i look at it ya. Its a little busy, like 30's on a magnum.........
 
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Old Sep 16, 2012 | 02:01 PM
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That looks great! I can't decide whether to black my chrome or add more chrome. Lol. Decisions decisions...
 
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Old Sep 17, 2012 | 01:55 PM
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Im not much for chrome. Im kindof plain when it comes to colors, most of my closet is white or black shirts, blue jeans, and a few pairs of dress pants.

You can bed liner your steps see how that goes..
 
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Old Sep 17, 2012 | 10:12 PM
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It looks like you went back to stock headlights as well? Much better IMO.
 
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Old Sep 18, 2012 | 12:03 AM
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Originally Posted by kenneymc
Did you guys do this your self, or take them off and have them sprayed at a shop?
I did mine by myself with attention to instructions, monstaliner rules.

Originally Posted by Jareski
That looks great! I can't decide whether to black my chrome or add more chrome. Lol. Decisions decisions...
check out my blackout thread, black and the flame red look great on our trucks

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Also, looks great. Really like those grills, where did you guys get them from?
ebay just type in mesh grilles for our trucks and theres a company, e-autoanything and they are about 250 bucks, compared to 1000 dollar t rex's and rbp's
 
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Old Sep 18, 2012 | 09:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Jareski
That looks great! I can't decide whether to black my chrome or add more chrome. Lol. Decisions decisions...
All about taste I guess. Some think mat black looks cheap & tacky, some think chrome is just as tacky and too much bling but decals like mine will probably always look Don't know what the previous owner was thinking to be honest but it matches my trailer pretty well so everyone thinks I borrowed my grandpa's rig!
 

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Old Sep 18, 2012 | 10:19 AM
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Bumper looks great! They really should offer a coating like this as an OEM option for bumpers, rockers etc on the offroad packages.
 
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Old Sep 18, 2012 | 01:13 PM
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If they did an OEM coating like these I doubt they would last as long, just look at there chroming jobs. Cheap and garbage. My bumper started to get rust in the 1st 6 months.

I thought about getting a redip done on my bumpers, But I was thinking of different elements.
 
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Old Sep 19, 2012 | 05:27 PM
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Looks to good!, and yeah i would agree on RBP being crap anything that dosent put down more HP for over 500 bucks is a waste
 
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