I am looking for pictures of any 350Z where the front grill opening has been painted to match the body color, pictures in silver would be nice since mine is silver. I wanted an idea how it will look before moving forward with the idea.

I removed the front bumper cover while I add projector fog lights and would paint it now if it would look nice.

 

my friend has his painted to match, it looks soooooo much better, altho his is gloss black, but that can work with anycolor. i recomend gettin it black, just glossy, like reg body paint, i am doin it next week. i have a brickyard

 

Thanks for the reply...

I was thinking body color so maybe, just maybe the grill will look less like a mouth and more like a grill and I can always add the metal chrome to the edge of the slits

 

thats redundant, the grill is already black, and the car is black. There can't be too much of a difference.

 

i a white z with a billet grill im thinkin bout painting it flat black to match the rims

 

Billet grill?

Painted billet grill?

 

I didn't like mine.
Pictures were taken at the end of winter and before I changed it. Ignore the retarded basketball hoop. I ripped that down.

 

i saw it on a white z and it looked terrible IMO

 

it looks really bad, dont do it.

 

Damn.

Thanks for the pics Silverstone...the shadowing makes it hard to tell but the general concensus is "don't do it". I just wanted to do something so in the back of my mind, the front looks less like a bug smiling at me.

Any ideas?

 

Yeah I really didn't like it. But I had to live with it for a while.



Here's an idea... Buy a new bumper

 

If you paint it body color, your car will look like it went through some cheap paint / body shop that didn't take the time to properly mask it off.

 

Eww, good point and an idea killer.

 

I am getting my 2006 done in gloss black rather than the gunmetal it come stock with. I have an Interlagos fire, and I think the gloss black will look a little less cheap than the gunmetal.

 

actually its very noticable, the old plastic gets worn easily n looks terrible, i noticed it right away without him even tellin me he did it

 

An oil cooler....

 

dont do it...i took my car into the dealership once.....next day i called and they said it would be another day for the work i was having done?? i frowned cause they originally told me only one day, but i didnt make a fuss.....so then the next day i called and this time a different service manager answered! she hated my service manager so she spilled the beans all over the place -- telling me how the tech caught my front bumper on the lift arm when he was reversing WITHOUT a spotter and he ripped my front bumper nearly off the car! so they spent the extra day repainting a new replacement bumper!!

you believe this! they werent gonna tell me at all is what i found out!!!! BELIEVE THAT!!! but they found they had to tell me because the retarted paint shop didnt mask off the center section!!! So my PPW Z was all white including the grill area!!!

looked horrible!!! A billet grill would have looked better!

I raced over there and then saw my car! they drove it over and were like..."it looks great! yey! how do you like it!!!"

I was like you A Z Z WIPES!!!

They wanted me to sign all these papers and take my car and they would order me a new bumper and paint it again!!! i was like heck NO! my car is staying here and you better put a rush on the new bumper!

Now that the bag was out! they had no reason to rush! so the next day my service manager was like "its gonna take 2 weeks to get another bumper so you might as well come sign papers and take your car"

I hung up and called the Dealerships General MANAGER, skipping the service manager! i demanded to speak with him!!! after much resistance i finally got the guy on the phone...."level headed dude" HE DIDNT EVEN KNOW WHAT HAPPENED" but when he did i got my car back in like two days.....

had a new bumper ordered, overnighted, painted by a reputable shop and back on my car with new fender liners..everything...

-J

 

It's very noticeable

 

Well, I'm skipping this idea for sure.

It was just a thought, how to reduce the "face" look but in light of
things, I'll continue to live with it...

Wo is me.

LOL

 

It looks cheap IMO.