I've looked at many color matched grills both here and on another tundra forum and to be honest , have yet to see one that was an exact match. Thats the main reason I've kept my original Chrome
I may rescind my reasonable remark for @ACDan 'so comment because now that I think about it it would be better to take the $40 grille and have it painted to match. I'm sure a painter would rather shoot paint on that one rather than have to prep the chrome for paint.
I have a 2013 so no bulge, but to have my chrome grille surround prepped and color matched I paid $75. I installed a mesh grille so I left the emblem alone.
Ok. I have a dealership willing to paint my grill on the side, I just need to take care of the painter. I have two questions:
1) would $100 be fair?
2) originally I was just going to have the surround color matched and leave the center black. Now I am think to either have the whole grill color matched, or just the large bars and the emblem painted.
Have them paint the whole thing. The Pro grilles look good that way too. There should be some pictures of the solid color color match regular grilles in here somewhere.
My personal opinion is to paint the bulge and surround and leave all bars black. I go back and forth on the emblem as to whether or not it should be black like the bars or color matched.
And I think $100 is a steal since you're only in to it for $40 so far. You can't buy one color matched for that price. At least that I've found.
*** side note... I really want my chrome 14 grill color matched white. Is the prep that extensive to do? No way that spray paint sticks?
I might add that my MGM Plat (matched grill surround, bumpers etc...) looks mismatched in the rain.
I didn't re-read through the thread, but today during the freezing rain my truck looked close to what your pic looked.
In dry times, mine doesn't look like that though. And in wet, not near the difference. But today I thought of this thread when I was checking for codes.
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