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Old Jul 1, 2009 | 12:38 PM
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has anyone painted their lower vents body color?

Except for BO, has anyone painted their lower center mesh and side faux vents body color? Mine are black and my car is black, but that doesn't really count. I do think they look 1000 times better painted a glossy black rather then that fading gray color that they tend to get with age.

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Old Jul 1, 2009 | 01:50 PM
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Not the body color but glossy, Stoof's -

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Old Jul 1, 2009 | 02:01 PM
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yeah mine are glossy too..
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Old Jul 1, 2009 | 02:08 PM
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Originally Posted by ChOy BoY
yeah mine are glossy too..
Would have suspected Pink.
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Old Jul 1, 2009 | 02:32 PM
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Yes, I know several have done glossy black. It looks so much better than the unpainted grayish black original color. Anybody else done them body color? I want to see if it looks like "too much".
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Old Jul 1, 2009 | 03:31 PM
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The glossy black looks great! I didnt even think about painting that, thanks for the pic. Added to my list of things to do.
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Old Jul 1, 2009 | 04:00 PM
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wow amazing guess it's time to gloss black my faux vents
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Old Jul 1, 2009 | 04:39 PM
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I think body color faux vents would be too much. I feel like the material and the mess design should only be black.
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Old Jul 1, 2009 | 04:45 PM
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Originally Posted by ucla bruin
I think body color faux vents would be too much. I feel like the material and the mess design should only be black.
I was thinking that it may be too much as well but wanted to see if anybody had done it to see actual photos of it, not photoshops. The Glossy black makes a huge difference and is very easy to do IMO, but not many people have bothered.
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Old Jul 1, 2009 | 07:27 PM
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Did you paint the middle long mesh too BB?
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Old Jul 1, 2009 | 07:40 PM
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if youre gonna paint the side faux vents glossy, ABSOLUTELY paint the mesh in the middle, otherwise itll look retarded.

The way i plan to make my foglights in the vents i was going to color match them so i guess well see how it looks once its done.
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Old Jul 1, 2009 | 08:20 PM
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Any of you photoshop guru's want to help out? (Besides jqueen; spare us your lovely MS Paint skills lol)
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Old Jul 1, 2009 | 08:55 PM
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Originally Posted by G37Sam
Any of you photoshop guru's want to help out? (Besides jqueen; spare us your lovely MS Paint skills lol)
lols that only when i want to eff around. I photoshop pretty good, check out Evo-to-G thread haha.

I never really though about this but I might paint mine tonight. I don't get it though BB. You want to Colormatch yours? why not just black?
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Old Jul 1, 2009 | 09:04 PM
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Yes, I painted both faux vents and the center mesh glossy black.
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Old Jul 1, 2009 | 11:20 PM
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I did mine too in BO. Not too hard to do and definitly worth the effort. Be interesting to see another color....
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