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Old 12-29-16, 10:18 PM
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Question F-Sport Front Bumper Lip Color

Those of you with the F-Sport bumper, I was wondering if anyone has a clue what color the front lip of it is painted? It's the plastic piece that looks darkish matte silver. My hunch right now is Atomic Silver (1J7) or Liquid Platinum (1J4) w/ some matte clear coat, though for filling in chips just the base coat is needed. No official touch-up paint exists for it of course and really thoughtless of Lexus to have such a damage prone area to be this annoying to correct.


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Default Front lip colour

I'm not sure what the colour is...
I've wrapped my grille surround in Satin Black and the Lip in Carbon Fibre
You decide what you think...
One things for sure, you don't have to worry about touch up paint... Wrapped surround and Carbon Fibre Lip
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Originally Posted by Jaylex350
I'm not sure what the colour is...
I've wrapped my grille surround in Satin Black and the Lip in Carbon Fibre
You decide what you think...
One things for sure, you don't have to worry about touch up paint... Wrapped surround and Carbon Fibre Lip
is that piece easy to remove or was it wrapped on the car.thanks,phil
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No it wasn't removed it was wrapped in place, same with the Grille surround
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i kept the outer chrome, and wrapped the lip with carbon fiber.

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Originally Posted by NAZTY97
i kept the outer chrome, and wrapped the lip with carbon fiber.
Looks real nice!
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Looks good
The best thing about wrapping is if you get bored with it ..Off it comes......
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Here's ours. Just wrapped to match the body and left the bottom lip unwrapped.
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Looks good, but I think it would awesome with the lip done in black.......
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Originally Posted by Jaylex350
Looks good, but I think it would awesome with the lip done in black.......
Saw someone with an obsidian RC had it all wrapped in black including the L emblem. It looked good but having an accent color helps define the car's front, especially at low light. Lighting on my pic didn't do justice to it.

Here's the look I was after

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I'm not interested in wrapping this part. Has anyone verified the OP's suggestions on touch-up paint and how well it matches?
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Not sure if painting over chrome is a good idea. You're better off wrapping them.
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Originally Posted by Jaylex350
I'm not sure what the colour is...
I've wrapped my grille surround in Satin Black and the Lip in Carbon Fibre
You decide what you think...
One things for sure, you don't have to worry about touch up paint... Wrapped surround and Carbon Fibre Lip
niiice! goes perfect with that nebula grey, i have the same color
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Originally Posted by happy1977
Not sure if painting over chrome is a good idea. You're better off wrapping them.
It's not chrome on that section, it's just matte painted plastic. In the long run I probably will wrap it, but my set of touch up paints arrived (atomic silver, ultra white, and the metallic clear for ultra white) and I'll check with a color swatch the next time I got the chance.
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Originally Posted by happy1977
Saw someone with an obsidian RC had it all wrapped in black including the L emblem. It looked good but having an accent color helps define the car's front, especially at low light. Lighting on my pic didn't do justice to it.

Here's the look I was after
That was me, I wrapped the grille surround in gloss black and the bottom/ midsection satin black.
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