What was done to your JK this week?
08-26-2013, 04:28 PM
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Dipped my grill today. Was going to do the grill mesh mod while it was off too, but I misplaced a bag of my tie strap anchors. Save that up for tomorrow I guess. Love the look. I used to have to only white Jeep in my town, and now there are at least 3 others, so I had to change it up a bit... Eventually going to bedline all that I have plastidipped. It's a great way to try out the look before you go full out.
Before... ho- hum....
As of today... vroom vroom !!!!
Before... ho- hum....
As of today... vroom vroom !!!!
08-26-2013, 05:29 PM
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Color matched accents
I am not a big fan of chrome so I went to Auto Zone and bought some color matched Flame Red spray paint and painted the trim pieces inside my new 2014 Rubicon. it makes the trim pieces really pop. I also picked up some black high heat paint and painted my muffler and tail pipe.
08-26-2013, 05:50 PM
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New oil pan (post screw up), new steering stabilizer relocation bracket ( ummm, yup, post screw up), and c gussets. New fire extinguisher ( thank God NOT a post screw up!!)
08-26-2013, 05:53 PM
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I used a primer and a clear coat as well. As long as you let it completely dry between coats it should be fine. I did the same thing to my 2010 as well and had no issues. Today I did the sound bar speaker covers and the rear subwoofer cover too. Did not get a picture of that yet though.
08-26-2013, 05:57 PM
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Dipped my grill today. Was going to do the grill mesh mod while it was off too, but I misplaced a bag of my tie strap anchors. Save that up for tomorrow I guess. Love the look. I used to have to only white Jeep in my town, and now there are at least 3 others, so I had to change it up a bit... Eventually going to bedline all that I have plastidipped. It's a great way to try out the look before you go full out.
Before... ho- hum....
As of today... vroom vroom !!!!
Before... ho- hum....
As of today... vroom vroom !!!!
08-26-2013, 07:25 PM
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It's just rocker guard vinyl from the Auto Parts store.... I just cut it and put it together on the hood. It's a real nice matte black. Cuts down the glare off the bright white hood in your eyes so you can avoid the 'snow blindness'. I may order the one like the Arctic has, but for $12 for a 25 foot roll, this stuff works.
I used to use this stuff for everthing before I discovered Plastidip... It ends up looking the same way in the end. Plastidip is just way easier. No cutting, or air bubbled to worry about.
I even did the deck lid and stripes on my old Intrepid. As you can see, it just looks the same as Plastidip does nowadays....
The only bad part is that I think it must shrink a bit after a year or so. You can see the seams on the hood now from the right angle.. But it still looks OK. Maybe I meant for it to look like that... lol.
I used to use this stuff for everthing before I discovered Plastidip... It ends up looking the same way in the end. Plastidip is just way easier. No cutting, or air bubbled to worry about.
I even did the deck lid and stripes on my old Intrepid. As you can see, it just looks the same as Plastidip does nowadays....
The only bad part is that I think it must shrink a bit after a year or so. You can see the seams on the hood now from the right angle.. But it still looks OK. Maybe I meant for it to look like that... lol.
08-26-2013, 08:17 PM
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It's just rocker guard vinyl from the Auto Parts store.... I just cut it and put it together on the hood. It's a real nice matte black. Cuts down the glare off the bright white hood in your eyes so you can avoid the 'snow blindness'. I may order the one like the Arctic has, but for $12 for a 25 foot roll, this stuff works.
I used to use this stuff for everthing before I discovered Plastidip... It ends up looking the same way in the end. Plastidip is just way easier. No cutting, or air bubbled to worry about.
I even did the deck lid and stripes on my old Intrepid. As you can see, it just looks the same as Plastidip does nowadays....
The only bad part is that I think it must shrink a bit after a year or so. You can see the seams on the hood now from the right angle.. But it still looks OK. Maybe I meant for it to look like that... lol.
08-27-2013, 02:49 AM
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Those look great just keep in mind that if you are really flexing out your rig they will pull on that windshield frame. I learned that the hard way. They work great for trail rides but any crawling and I would pull them off.