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Old 03-29-2015, 07:55 PM
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Cool Painted the ugly chrome spoiler

Had the chrome spoiler painted to match the car.
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Old 03-29-2015, 09:14 PM
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It looks great but did you strip the chrome before painting? Reason why I ask is because the place that did mine (twice now) never removed the chrome, and it peeled after half a year/year. It's peeling again now (corners and where button/camera is, and I'm about to toss it out and just buy a stillen spoiler to replace it.
Old 03-29-2015, 09:23 PM
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No I didn't, but it was painted the same way as the front Grill, Which was painted gloss black and it's been holding up well for 1 year and a half.

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It looks great but did you strip the chrome before painting? Reason why I ask is because the place that did mine (twice now) never removed the chrome, and it peeled after half a year/year. It's peeling again now (corners and where button/camera is, and I'm about to toss it out and just buy a stillen spoiler to replace it.
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this is what i did to mine as i wrapped my roof in the same.



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Originally Posted by tbulsara
this is what i did to mine as i wrapped my roof in the same.



Looks nice, you should get the CF diffuser to go with it.
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Whip look dope... IS that 20x10.5 +35 all around and what coilover yuor sitting on? Is there any rubbing or so..? Hows the ride?tyring to debate 20s on my 11 g37x.. Thnaks
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For the bottom, instead of getting the diffuser, im wrapping the bottom section in CF...
yes it is 20x10.5 all around on 275/30/20. im sitting on D2 racing coils.

i had to roll and pull the front fenders a little to avoid the rubbing. other than that.. no problems.

As far as ride, i have the coils set at medium dampening, so it does get a little bumpy.
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Oh ok...see thats the part that gets to me.. I dont want to pull or roll my fenders at all.. i guess i am going to go with 19s or so.. but them 20s look sick..lol
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well i had to because i was fitting a 275/30 if you go with a 20x10 or 9.5 and wrap it in 255 you should be good
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Originally Posted by tbulsara
this is what i did to mine as i wrapped my roof in the same.


Where did you get the wrap from? thinking on removing the plasti dip on mine and replacing with this so it can match with the cf diffuser i ordered
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got the wrap from a distributor in texas... Ikon Wraps.
its 3M, i ended up buying the whole roll because i wrap cars and roof for others.
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Originally Posted by Sobbie84
Whip look dope... IS that 20x10.5 +35 all around and what coilover yuor sitting on? Is there any rubbing or so..? Hows the ride?tyring to debate 20s on my 11 g37x.. Thnaks
I've seen people banned from other boards for grammar and spelling not even as bad as this. It is very impressive.
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Carbon fiber wrap looks nice. I have a silver G and carbon fiber anything looks nasty if not done correctly hah
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Latino914 Thats looks 100% better. Nice work

tbulsara Yours is super clean too
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Nice work, guys. I took the vinyl route as well. Did gloss black to match my car's wrapped window trim, emblems, grille, and "diffuser".



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