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WHICH IS BETTER

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WHICH IS BETTER

Postby sarusa » Fri May 12, 2017 2:20 pm

Contemplating painting window surrounds black, top picture painted black bottom picture as is.?
Would appreciate opinions. :lol:
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Re: WHICH IS BETTER

Postby MiracleLancer » Fri May 12, 2017 2:56 pm

I like the Black outline.

I'd almost go as far as doing the skirts, hood and spoiler too.
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Re: WHICH IS BETTER

Postby Lancer1993 » Fri May 12, 2017 5:18 pm

For some reason while most CJ have the B pillars in a matt or satin black, my black CJ that part is gloss black like the duco. So I painted just the B pillars matt black up to the top of the glass line. Kinda had to as the previous owner had somehow put a dent in the front door B pillar covering so needed to take care of that.

Don't know how painting the whole window frame black will look.

Isn't it weird how not long ago the crazy was to color code everything like door handles, mirrors, bumpers when car manufactures were keeping them black or unpainted. Now we're blacking out those same parts!
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Re: WHICH IS BETTER

Postby aspir3 » Fri May 12, 2017 7:20 pm

Just wrap them black. Most modern cars are wrapped tgere anyway.
If you don't like it it's easy to remove

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Re: WHICH IS BETTER

Postby Mystique » Fri May 12, 2017 10:54 pm

aspir3 wrote:Just wrap them black. Most modern cars are wrapped tgere anyway.
If you don't like it it's easy to remove


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Re: WHICH IS BETTER

Postby Lancer1993 » Sat May 13, 2017 9:00 am

Or Plasti-Dip, which could be easier?
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Re: WHICH IS BETTER

Postby Stevie » Sat May 13, 2017 10:24 am

Assuming you're at least half competent at both, I'd believe wrapping a part like that would be easier.

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Re: WHICH IS BETTER

Postby sarusa » Sun May 14, 2017 11:43 am

Thanks all, sounds like everyone likes the black, myself likewise! Could plactidip them for starters I suppose, to check it out
real time! :D

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Re: WHICH IS BETTER

Postby sarusa » Fri Jun 02, 2017 10:39 am

Bought some flat black 3M vinyl wrap from SuperCheap. Decided to use a recoverable to normal method.
In case i decide to return to original later.


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