Ok so i am planning on painting all the light grey plastic trim on my green escape to black. has anyone ever done this before? when you take off the trim are there clips that will break and need to be replaced? help me get started!
what color? i plan on painting mine black to match the rest of the escape. they make the mirrors blank, and the roof rack black, and the handles black, and the tires black, and i tinted the windows black. but they put on grey cladding.
i have a forest green escape and im painting them black... and yes ford is so dumb sometimes, they should have been black, would look soooo much better
I am going to be doing this and have both bumpers and all the fenders off but am unsure about how to get the cladding off the doors and the pieces right under the doors. Anyone know how to get those off?
yea but you can pretty much guarantee you'll break half of the plastic clips in the process. ford doesnt know how to make these without breaking everytime you pull them off of something... be prepared to spend some cash on new ones
I was wondering if anyone had done this yet. Also, are you guys planning on getting a smooth finish, or leaving it textured? I'm thinking about doing this myself, but I would want to make them smooth and shiny. Does anyone know how to do that?
I have done this, It cost me 30$ i got a few cans of plastic paint at walmart, it took 3 hrs and i didnt have to replace any plastic anchor srew things , mine were grey now black, it can be done , do it in a non dusty place and they dry in about 30 min takes about 4hrs before it is totally dry.
Right, but are yours still textured, or smooth? I'm pretty sure I could paint them as they were, but I wanted to have them painted like they are on the newer models.
On the topic of plastic trim... has anyone else experienced the trim under the backdoors, next to the wheel well become gritty and lose it's smooth texture? Mine seems to look like there is dirt on it, but it's actually the plastic being rough, almost as if it had a layer of dirt on it. I believe it may possibly be from road salt in the winter?
some buddy should photo shop a pic of there escape with the grey side panels painted black id love to see that! i would do it if i knew how to use it properly!
I've been meaning to PS mine, just haven't had much time to do it. And the little time i have had, I didn't think about it.
And my lower plastic is more of a light tan/brown color :roll: but the rest is all black. I've seen gray plastics too and they were a different color than mine.
OK, so I finally did it tonite, along with the graphite inlays to the rims that I'd like to do also.
Just wish I could have gotten the lower plastics to shine a lil more like the mirrors and air deflector but oh well, still gets me in the ballpark anyhow.
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