Glad it helped you out. That's the thing, I've debated installing a painted grille surround instead of the chrome one. The thing is, the chrome bumper in the center looks better to me with the chrome grille surround vs. the painted surround w/chrome bumper. My thinking is, if it's painted to match then the bumpers and all should be as well. That said, it's my personal opinion. I've seen plenty of trucks with the painted grille/surround with the chrome bumper look good too. Just personal preference I suppose.

 

that's just it it looks good either way but I think mine will look better with the PTM (it's also 2 tone with PTM mirrors and grill surround) the '00-'02 harley valance is a win for sure no matter what its on

 

Havent posted on this one yet

 

nice wheels cherokee. that hood is nice too, doesnt look too overdone.

and Darth Bama, thats what I'm doin on my truck. Imo, too much ptm is ugly. I'm leavin my grille surround chrome and the middle bumper piece chrome. it'll go good with the wheels in the end.

 

Ok guys here's the last pics from me for a while. I went ahead with removing the factory pin stripes last night. Finished buffing and cleaning this morning and I'm tired!

Side shot of paint after stripes were removed. It turned out great! :

 

999999999999x better!!!!

 

darth - looks great!

 

Nice!

 

Time to do the same with the door moldings too

 

^^I've thought about. Just not too sure about taking them off. They'd be gone already if say they had chrome inside them or something, but as it stands they're not bad. I may take em off, you never know!

 

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i was glad my old harley didn't have them!

 

I was just thinking and thought those moldings kinda look good on his ride. They break up the slab sided doors.
Bama, I removed my moldings if you wanna see how it looks on a true blue supercab. Your truck keeps tempting me to write hot checks just so I can get mine looking similar to yours lol.
Being poor sucks :o

 

Brother, I feel ya! We have two kids so I'm ball'n on a budget myself.

The thing about the molding is with the blue it seems like it would just be too plain looking. I may pull one off and see if I like it. I have plenty of 3M molding tape on hand to stick it back on so if I don't it's no big deal. May be a little small project for tomorrow.

 

I say leave the molding on since the truck is solid color

 

Hey Darth, Nice choice in wheels. Great minds think alike.