I just bought a clean black 80 and I'm looking to black it out. It has chrome door handles and mirror skins. Anybody have any advice on how to get these black?
blacking out chrome parts
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The best paint I've found for chrome is the Rustoleum trim and bumper paint in a rattle can. Prep as per tag3's info. This is good stuff.
I used Plastidip on my Tundra to black out my emblems. I did mine over a year ago on all the emblems and the front Toyota logo still looks good even with 40,000+ miles and billions of bugs. The stuff is amazing! Really durable and easy to work with. I love the way you cuts its own lines around the emblems. Here are some you tube videos with people doing it. There is a video of a guy doing a entire Audi and shows how easy it is to work with.
You can buy a rattle can at Lowes for $6 a can. With one can i put 6 coats on all my emblems and then also put 5 coats on the steps into my storm shelter to add traction to the metal steps.
General Search
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=plasti+dip
The Audi - u can watch the prep but the best part is the end when he pulls off the extra.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNY9Dx617N8
You can buy a rattle can at Lowes for $6 a can. With one can i put 6 coats on all my emblems and then also put 5 coats on the steps into my storm shelter to add traction to the metal steps.
General Search
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=plasti+dip
The Audi - u can watch the prep but the best part is the end when he pulls off the extra.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNY9Dx617N8
Plasti Dip looks like good stuff.
The problem with chrome plated plastic parts is that without a good way to remove the plating (that I know of), no matter how well any coating sticks to it, when the chrome flakes away it'll just take whatever paint/coating you've applied with it. My side mirrors and grille are a perfect example of that (along with ugly UV fading over the last five years. They look gray now).
Were it not for that, I think the Plasti Dip or Eastwood's ceramic/epoxy stuff (2K-something I think it's called) would be the best way to go, though I've seen nothing to attest for the Eastwood stuff's long term UV resistance yet.
The problem with chrome plated plastic parts is that without a good way to remove the plating (that I know of), no matter how well any coating sticks to it, when the chrome flakes away it'll just take whatever paint/coating you've applied with it. My side mirrors and grille are a perfect example of that (along with ugly UV fading over the last five years. They look gray now).
Were it not for that, I think the Plasti Dip or Eastwood's ceramic/epoxy stuff (2K-something I think it's called) would be the best way to go, though I've seen nothing to attest for the Eastwood stuff's long term UV resistance yet.
