Painting over chrome on plastic parts?

[boosted3]

I wanted to change the chrome package on my Turbo T to black. I plan on getting all the metal pieces powdercoated but was wondering if anyone has tried painting over the chrome on the plastic pieces like the headlight bezels, corner marker, taillights, and grille.. Is a simple scuff and spray going to work or is there going to be more prep work involved, or is it even possible? Any help would be great! Im trying to cover my bases before i go trying it myself and ruining the parts. And if it does work, what is the best paint to use?
Thanks!

 

[Turbo6Smackdown]

I was doing the same thing as you, before I discovered that A. When I started painting the brushed aluminum trim on my car, I was finding out that even with a really good prep, and a good paint job, it still flakes off. Bad. (don't need any "I spray painted mine, and it's lasted for years." posts because I simply will not believe you.)
So I decided to have 'em powdercoated... till I realised that some of the pieces will be bent when taking off, so I said screw it.
Though, I did get to the headlight bezels, and found that a good cleaning with laquer thinner, a good scuffing with fine paper, more laquer thinner, and several coats of Mar Hyde satin worked pretty dam good.
I did the same to my grille, but this time I used a gloss black laquer spray paint, and that turned out WAY better than I thought. I know from years of spray painting, that a gloss is always more durable than a semi gloss, satin or flat. But a gloss black laquer will really shine. Which is not accurate for the black out package, so I used the old spray paint trick of spraying the object from about 14 inches away with quicker passes, to get a non gloss finish, as opposed to a slower pass from about 11 inches away, for a really solid gloss.
She turned out suprisingly well, and I was really impressed. Extremely scratch resistant too.
HTH's.

 

[Turbo6Smackdown]

god dam database errors..

 

[boosted3]

I was doing the same thing as you, before I discovered that A. When I started painting the brushed aluminum trim on my car, I was finding out that even with a really good prep, and a good paint job, it still flakes off. Bad. (don't need any "I spray painted mine, and it's lasted for years." posts because I simply will not believe you.)
So I decided to have 'em powdercoated... till I realised that some of the pieces will be bent when taking off, so I said screw it.
Though, I did get to the headlight bezels, and found that a good cleaning with laquer thinner, a good scuffing with fine paper, more laquer thinner, and several coats of Mar Hyde satin worked pretty dam good.
I did the same to my grille, but this time I used a gloss black laquer spray paint, and that turned out WAY better than I thought. I know from years of spray painting, that a gloss is always more durable than a semi gloss, satin or flat. But a gloss black laquer will really shine. Which is not accurate for the black out package, so I used the old spray paint trick of spraying the object from about 14 inches away with quicker passes, to get a non gloss finish, as opposed to a slower pass from about 11 inches away, for a really solid gloss.
She turned out suprisingly well, and I was really impressed. Extremely scratch resistant too.
HTH's.

Thanks for the info! Ill give it a shot! What did you use to rough up the surfaces? Just some fine sandpaper or something like scotch bright?

 

[83turbomon]

I wanted to change the chrome package on my Turbo T to black. I plan on getting all the metal pieces powdercoated but was wondering if anyone has tried painting over the chrome on the plastic pieces like the headlight bezels, corner marker, taillights, and grille.. Is a simple scuff and spray going to work or is there going to be more prep work involved, or is it even possible? Any help would be great! Im trying to cover my bases before i go trying it myself and ruining the parts. And if it does work, what is the best paint to use?
Thanks!

I was wondering the same thing too

 

[83turbomon]

I wanted to change the chrome package on my Turbo T to black. I plan on getting all the metal pieces powdercoated but was wondering if anyone has tried painting over the chrome on the plastic pieces like the headlight bezels, corner marker, taillights, and grille.. Is a simple scuff and spray going to work or is there going to be more prep work involved, or is it even possible? Any help would be great! Im trying to cover my bases before i go trying it myself and ruining the parts. And if it does work, what is the best paint to use?
Thanks!

I was wondering the same thing too

 

[Turbo6Smackdown]

I actually used a fine sandpaper under a stream of water in my basement basin. I wet sanded it.
And I see 83 turbo's thinking about it too. I'd love to see the result, as I've always wanted an 83 t type with a blackout package. In fact, I still do lol.

 

[83turbomon]

yeah i wanna try it... now the bumpers... how are people painting those? are they buying gelcoated ones and painting them? I wanna give my 83 type a blackout package... but still keep the 83 look. will grand national bezels fit an 83 too? to me its easier than painting the old ones and it looks better, now the grill is another delima. I want my grill to either stay silver or black, but have my bumpers painted and maybe even my tailights. So VERY dark blue (almost black) with the blackout package, t-type tint tailights, t-tops, and style. See how it goes.

 

[Turbo6Smackdown]

No bumpers were painted with black out packages. Only the GN, and the we4's got the black bumpers. T's and t-types got chrome bumpers. On your ride, the grille would like good either way I think. Grey or black. GN HEADlight bezels? I don't think so. I remember on my 83, when I tried to start switchin' over parts from the black out packaged regals, that none of the front and rear clip components would fit..

 

[coach]

"I did the same to my grille, but this time I used a gloss black laquer spray paint, and that turned out WAY better than I thought. I know from years of spray painting, that a gloss is always more durable than a semi gloss, satin or flat. But a gloss black laquer will really shine." from Turbo6Smackdown.



Your idea would also work for you if you shot it first in gloss, then scuffed it and did the flat or semi. The gloss would just be used as a primer. I have had pretty good luck with this route before. I agree, gloss seems to stick better, dont know why, just does.

Just an idea,
Coach

 

[DOUNVME]

I wet sanded some chrome bezels (front and rear) and sprayed with a semi-gloss paint and it is still on after 3 years. It was Krylon paint if I remember right. I ended up buying a rear bumper and painting the front bumper. The front bumper and grille was not as successful as the bezels which I didn't expect the front bumper to be.

The grille probably would have survived if I had taken the time to prep it like i did the light bezels. i was waiting to find a "real" grille and at the last minute shot it with some paint. I also prepped and sanded the lower windshield trim.

 

[83turbomon]

what grit did you use?

 

[49-blues]

Eastwoods make a Etching primer in flat black that works real well under Sem Trim paint-used it a couple times with no problems.