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Black Pearl Grill

1.6K views 14 replies 12 participants last post by  abdukted1456  
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I hear those are not very durable, however they do look pretty sweet! I wonder if a person could use nightshade or a similar semi-clear darkening spray paint to achieve a similar effect on a regular grill, might be worth a try!
 
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griffen nut said:
has anyone ever made their own mesh grill from this website? i was wodering what the difficulty level was. http://www.lehigh.edu/~cak7/Appearance/MeshGrill.html
I have made several... it's easy and wicked cheap.... they come out looking nice too... I think the newer grilles are a little harder to do, or so I've heard, but the c900's are a piece of cake. ;)
 
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You could make your own black pearl grille without too much trouble. It all comes down to getting the paint recipe just right. abduckted did and his grille looks great.

I wonder what sort of warranty goes with the oem pearl grille?
 
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the 94-98 ng900 grills are the hard grills to mesh, because the two parts of the grill are basically plastic welded together. the 9-3 grills you can seperate by unclippng some tabs, as long as you dont break them.

I think it took abdukted a while to come up with his "seceret" recipe. but I am sure you could figure it out eventually
 
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Mine is fine. It came with nearly no scratches or anything and already messed. Neadless to say i was impressed about the quality trade and overall cost on my part. I found the item by buying a black pearl license plate cover off of ebay and asked the seller if he had anything to get rid of in black pearl. I also got a set of wooden door pulls off of him for 20
 
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just take a chrome grill and very very lightly spray it with taillight tint. if you can get a lighter color tail tint, lighter than nightshades, you will likely get a more "shiny" result. too much tint and it will really dull the chrome effect and you might as well just paint it solid blaCK.

This is what I am gonna do to my stock grill so i can have a "black chrome" for the winter. no, this is not the secret recipe for my custom summer grill.:p

I also don't reccomend nite shades because it has a slightly purplish hue.