Painting S4 bumper grills/louvers?

[TJ00S4]

Anyone paint the lower horizontal cross pieces on the louvers? I was thinking of painting them black on my silver S4, think it would look good? Do you follow what I mean?

[blacka4]

i did that on my S4 front. paint them a gloss black though. all i did to prep them was to scuff them witha scratch pad and 2 coats of base and 3 coats of clear..they look good on my black a4.

[TJ00S4]

kinda defeats the purpose if you have black paint already....

[JHousyS4]

Originally posted by blacka4
i did that on my S4 front. paint them a gloss black though. all i did to prep them was to scuff them witha scratch pad and 2 coats of base and 3 coats of clear..they look good on my black a4.

GOT ANY PICS??
I might want to do this on my black s4

[blacka4]

yea I have to take a crap load of pics today of my ICE link install and interior I will snap a few of the front. you really can't tell tehre painted black because there black to begin with but I wanted them shinny..not flat I also painted my stock grill to match

[Ben@SpeedBarn]

Yeah you're stock grill looks sweet all shiney!

I think TJ just wants to paint the middle part that is silver on his car. So it looks like one big opening from further away. It would be like the easy way to do the Rs4 mod to the s4 bumper.

[blacka4]

yea i understand what it wanted. I say go for it. and while your at it you might as well just respray the entire bumper..its alot easier the tring to mask the bumper off.

[blacka4]

here are my pictures
http://www.rmweb.net/blacka4/A4/grillpaint/DSC00427.JPG
http://www.rmweb.net/blacka4/A4/grillpaint/DSC00428.JPG
http://www.rmweb.net/blacka4/A4/grillpaint/DSC00429.JPG