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My 2017 Z71 Texas Edition has what looks to be the High Country grill but the longitudinal strips are black instead of what are chrome on the HC.

My question is, has anyone removed these strips or is it possible? I'd like to paint them and was hoping someone else might have tried this already. They're definitely attached somehow, not made into the grill, so I'm thinking it's doable I just don't want to get into something that's going to end up being a huge PITA.

 

Love the grill though, way better than the regular LT one.

 

Thanks!

 

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Yes it is completely doable and yes a bit of a PITA. If you remove the grill from the truck and look on the backside you will see melted areas of plastic that hold them on. Basically during manufacturing there are plastic studs sticking out the back of the inserts which go into corresponding holes in the grill assembly and they use heat to melt the ends flat and hold the peaces together. You need to carefully grind away the melted plastic which will release the pieces off of the grill. And then after you do your mods you would reinstall the pieces and add some quick dry epoxy over the back of the studs to hold it together once again. Hope that made sense. Good luck.

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Yes it is completely doable and yes a bit of a PITA. If you remove the grill from the truck and look on the backside you will see melted areas of plastic that hold them on. Basically during manufacturing there are plastic studs sticking out the back of the inserts which go into corresponding holes in the grill assembly and they use heat to melt the ends flat and hold the peaces together. You need to carefully grind away the melted plastic which will release the pieces off of the grill. And then after you do your mods you would reinstall the pieces and add some quick dry epoxy over the back of the studs to hold it together once again. Hope that made sense. Good luck.

 

Makes perfect sense, I appreciate it!

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I've messed with vinyl and it's not as fun/easy as paint. I can get a perfect match and I have no doubt I'm going to like it.

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Bought and tried the wrap.  It sucked trying to get it to conform to all the bends and then trimming it showed the black edges.  Basically, I couldn’t do it. 

 

I then removed the “slats” off the grill and painted them.  That sucked also but painting I can do.   I like it. 

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Bought and tried the wrap.  It sucked trying to get it to conform to all the bends and then trimming it showed the black edges.  Basically, I couldn’t do it. 
 
I then removed the “slats” off the grill and painted them.  That sucked also but painting I can do.   I like it. 
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Looks really good. Good job. Can't wait to see it on the truck.

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Looks cool now I want to see a blue grill done



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OP - did you paint this yourself?


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7 hours ago, sjr613 said:

Looks really good. Good job. Can't wait to see it on the truck.

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looks good. HOW hard is it to removed the slats ???

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On 7/13/2017 at 8:45 PM, DeepBlue17 said:

Yes it is completely doable and yes a bit of a PITA. If you remove the grill from the truck and look on the backside you will see melted areas of plastic that hold them on. Basically during manufacturing there are plastic studs sticking out the back of the inserts which go into corresponding holes in the grill assembly and they use heat to melt the ends flat and hold the peaces together. You need to carefully grind away the melted plastic which will release the pieces off of the grill. And then after you do your mods you would reinstall the pieces and add some quick dry epoxy over the back of the studs to hold it together once again. Hope that made sense. Good luck.

 

Actually they "usually" use sonic welding, not heat. Pretty cool process if you've never seen it done

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Looks really good! If you haven’t fully assembled it already, the finishing touch would be to follow up with a few light coats of clear for protection. In any case, nice work.

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