05ls430518

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I painted my grille today and I think it looks great

Car looks weird without a grill

Thunderbox

Nice job, can you post up a pic of the front and side showing the wheels and the grill.
What materials did you use to paint it?

BCT

Looks good. I like how the L sign seems more prominent.

bradland

Looks good !
How much prep was involved ? What type of paint ?

05ls430518

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Thanks guys I used plasti dip because I heard it does better at not getting rock chips. For prep I washed all parts 4 times with water and palmolive dish soap, then I went and cleaned off the parts when they were dry with 99% isopropyl alchol.

Tomorrow when I leave my house I will take pics of my car posing so it shows the rims and grill at the same time.

05ls430518

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Pics as requested

2KHarrier

Looks good.

Thanks for posting

02Legend

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Looks real good. Makes me want to paint mine now.

05ls430518

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Thanks guys I will update in a bit about how many rock chips it gets.

Mbodall

That looks damn good! Gives the car a whole different (dare I say more menacing??) look from the front. Kind of makes me want to do that. I think that might look good with my black car... especially if I end up doing the whole smoked headlights and tail lights thing.

How much labor was involved removing and reinstalling? Is the grill just secured with clips/screws?

05ls430518

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The bolts are in red the screws are in purple undo all the bolts circled and the grill comes out then you have to unscrew the screws in purple to get the insert out there is probably more screws I forgot about but its super simple to do.

caverman

Looks good! I really like how it makes the Lexus emblem stand out. I might have to do my grill in the plasti-dip as well but I will leave the outer chrome alone. On silver I think you made the right choice of painting the whole grill especially since you have black wheels. I also like the idea that with plasti-dip it could be peeled off if you wanted to.

05ls430518

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With plasti dip Its super important to do 1 very very light coat it really makes it adhere more....in my opinion. Also thanks I wanna paint the calipers blue but have not had the time.