For those of you with XFR's with the Black Pack package, are all of your black grills glossy, or just the main grill? Getting my grill Plasti-dipped and wanted to know whether I should use Glossifier or not and whether to do the other grills as well.

 

I plasti dipped the main and lower grilles. It is just matte black as I was not happy with the back and glossifier. It is easy to do. Took about 1/2 hour to remove bumper and grille and a couple hours to paint. Most of the time is waiting for it to dry between coats.




While you are at it do the mirrors and chrome trim

 

What I did was just matte black for the trim and then the center of the grill I used the glossifier. So all the chrome mesh looks gloss black and the surround is is matte. I did all of my trim in matte though and from what I have read on this forum, many people aren't a fan. To each their own... I dig your's though Nate. Ever think about going black with the rims?

 

I had a shop do it and didn't like the result. So I called Chris at Mina and ordered a Black Pack grill with chrome surround. Got to me the next morning and had it installed yesterday. Only $345 including installation from a local body shop. Worth it to have the smooth gloss look I wanted and won't have to worry about peeling.

The sad part is that I really don't have anything else I want to do to the car now. Guess I can get a few projects done on the motorcycle and around the house now...

 

That's cool. I wasn't willing to spend that much on something I could do myself. I had a Cadillac previously that I painted everything myself so I figured I would try Plasti-Dip since it seemed even easier. It sounds like that shop did a **** job for you. I was at a car get together last weekend and guys were asking me how I got it so smooth as a few of them tried it and looked kind of rough. Maybe I should think about doing it for people on the side.

Unfortunately for me, the bike is getting close to be decommissioned for the winter...

 

Knowing I wouldn't be doing any further major upgrades and knowing it would be done in the manner I wanted made it easier to do so.

If I hadn't already spent 5 hours trying to get it done the first time I might have given them another chance, but wasn't going to do it again, just to have to buy the grill anyway.

If you can Plasti-dip well, I'm sure that you could earn some extra $$, especially if you have your car as an example.

 

I black packed my whole car, even the roof. Looks awesome!! I did buy a blackpack grille. It's all gloss. Ad just installed my new painted headlights!!