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Jul 30, 2010 | 02:11 PM

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cruzmisl

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I did it to my grill and chrome piece two days ago and i LOVE the results. I had an estimate done about a week ago to get my grill, chrome piece, and front lip and it came out to $850

. That was discount price too because my neighbor hit me and I was getting an estimate for that. Still need to get my lip painted but definitely saved a lot of money from plasti dip.

Can you snap some pics of the grille?

Jul 30, 2010 | 06:29 PM

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I'm confused as to how you got the color to match on the spoiler. How'd you do that?

Jul 31, 2010 | 01:22 AM

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Can you snap some pics of the grille?

yeah ill try to remember to get pictures of my grille and chrome lip. I just washed and painted over my old black paint on my grille. Didnt do any sanding, but im pretty sure its on there pretty good.

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I'm confused as to how you got the color to match on the spoiler. How'd you do that?

its not color matched. its kind of a matted black

Jul 31, 2010 | 01:46 PM

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is one can enough for grille and valence ???

Jul 31, 2010 | 01:55 PM

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I would go with 2 cans to be safe and i would put go with at least 3 coats. My advice, take the grille off to do it and on the valance, peel it off soon after you're done spraying so it won't dry and try to stick to the tape/paper. It dries fairly quickly. GL man! Really want to do my valance but the taping is gonna take me a while to get it right I know.

Jul 31, 2010 | 05:46 PM

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the store only had one can so im doing spoiler and grille 1st coat dryng now removed both of them im going with 2 heavy coats..illl post pics tomorrow with it on

Jul 31, 2010 | 06:37 PM

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Valence came out pretty bad, I just did one and the edges are perfect....lol

Jul 31, 2010 | 11:34 PM

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can wait to put on my grill tomorrow morning heres how it looks

Aug 1, 2010 | 01:52 AM

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Can you use clear coat over this and still be able to peel it off? It sounds interesting but I'd like a little more glossy look.

Aug 1, 2010 | 05:08 PM

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^^Good question and I would think so since you're using it on the coating itself. Have to try that.

Aug 2, 2010 | 04:48 PM

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pics of grille and chrome lip

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Aug 3, 2010 | 05:22 PM

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the spoiler looks better on black i see,,, im taking mine off soon i dont like it better than chrome one for my car.....maybe with my valence done it would match more

Aug 3, 2010 | 05:28 PM

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As crazy as it is to say, chrome looks better. Leaving mine as is until I get a spoiler but not at the top of my list. Way to try it out now peel it off and tell everyone how easy it is.

Aug 4, 2010 | 05:02 PM

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As crazy as it is to say, chrome looks better. Leaving mine as is until I get a spoiler but not at the top of my list. Way to try it out now peel it off and tell everyone how easy it is.

@franky2222: try doing the diffuser. then the matte black on the spoiler will match the bottom and it might look better

i think itll look best when the car is fully debadged (or maybe with just the infiniti emblem left). the chrome offsets the matte :P
im planning on debadging soon.
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