Yeah you aint lying. It is amazing how much money you can save too.. for me to buy black 20's all the way around would be shameful with the price of paint lol, that is of course considering they would repo it when i missed my payment.

Anyway here is the entire plan... all the chrome is either gonna be black or grey. the grille will have a combo of black and grey. the rims will be black. Black tail light and headlight covers.... i figure that will be a cheap yet classy look. Maybe I will throw in a srt-8 emblem lmao i do got the cam for it. and I might do somegraphics later to.

 

That is exactly why I painted my rims, it cost me all of about $50 for all the materials to paint all four of them.

 

If I had the time to do it, I would love to paint my rims black. but at the same time I just affraid that after they get painted and I have to get new tires mounted that the paint would chip off or crack... I think Im going to look into getting them powdercoated instead though.

 

yeah powder coating is the way to go but my rims were so messed up from my cousin hitting **** with them that I needed to sand them which of course means u cant powder coat them

 

So the grille is finished finally sorry I took so long but I am a very busy person with my needy girlfriend and all... I also took a picture of my exhaust, grille lights, back up lights, dashmat, and intake/throttlebody.... so anyways here tell me what you guys think.... oh yeah before I forget. I kept the stock honey comb inserts for the '05 model but i painted them black and cleared them for a shiny look. anyways enjoy and I am still working on the rims money is tight and tires are expensive...

new painted grille orgionally chrome



debadged and whatnot

dashmat

exhaust

intake


grille lights

reverse lights

Hope u guys enjoyed!

 

Well to be completely honest it looks like the grille paint is slightly darker than the trucks paint by a shade or two. The grille by its self looks great, nice and clean, cant spot anything wrong with it in the pics other than the the color.

 

must have one hell of a dog.

if you don't see too much snow/ice, cooper zeon ltz are great

 

Well is was painted to PDm with my vin number so I dont know how it would look different other then the fact my truck is fairly dirty right now.... and as far as the dog yeah hes a 92 lb pitbull and hes only 15 months old so if that explains it....
stanley the dog -

 

Maybe its just the combo of the lighting and being dirty then, it just looks a little darker than the rest of your paint.

 

Yeah I imagine so. If you were in person and seen it... it would probably be different....