Painted Grille

Looks super nice! The thing I did to mine when I painted it was put a few clear coats over all the black coats, that will help prolong the paint job. However, be prepared to have to touch it up every now and then from stupid rocks and road debris hitting it and chipping tiny parts of paint off. http://********************/smile/emthup.gif

Re: Painted Grille (GetDown)

I just went to the hardware store and dumped instant drying on it...I just covered the plastic part with 3M tape and pulled it off in the end. That was tricky because i think you can take the plastic part off but the crack is so small but if youre not careful water, spray paint etc. can get behind it and dry. If I could get the plastic off the blue part would be orange...Should I paint the fog covers the stock grey?

Re: Painted Grille (GetDown)


now you can snap your lower grille back in place.

I think I will be doing this to my grille sooner than later . Good job on the small project. Can you list out the products you used to paint and clean the grille? How did you end up removing the grille from the bumper? How did you take off the volvo emblem before painting as well?

Thanks!

Re: Painted Grille (GetDown)

1. Spray Paint for plastics (Krylon-No sanding or priming needed but i sanded a little anyway)
2. Rubbing alcohol to clean the grille it after washing it
3. Blue 3M tape to cover the volvo, it got painted over in the very first pics but still there, but everything from the chrome ring out got painted. I had a little chrome that was unpainted around the volvo because of the tape (only see upclose) but i worked that out and just sprayed more. Carrergt says its not a good idea to remove the plastic volvo cover. Another warning, moisture can get behind the volvo plastic cover.
4. I used 4 coats im not sure how many you want to use...
5. Clear coat spray paint for protect it. I got the ACE hardware brand that the recommended in their store, but it was instant drying so i just kept on spraying.
6. Remove the tape and pop it back in...

I just took off my fog light covers as well. Everything kind of clips in, so to remove the grille get a flat head screw driver, pull the grille out a little bit on the top and stick the screw between the grille and hood and pop it out. Do this about three times along the grille until the top is off then give a little tug outward to the bottom and it should be off. There are 4 little hookups on the top and four on the bottom. Be care the ones on the bottom slide out and I broke two of the trying to pull at an angle (see below). It pops back in just as easy as it came off.

Sorry for the night time pics, I was off messing with stuff on my car....
The clips...(see the two i broke)



Here are the inserts on the grille



Good Luck!