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Humdingah
07-20-2005, 07:37 PM
Rather than going through the hassle of finding someone with black mirror caps that are in relatively decent condition (my chrome caps have all of 500 miles on them now) I was wondering if anyone had painted their existing chrome caps? I can't imagine it's too hard to match the flat black of the mirror 'stalks' and stripping the chrome off of the existing ones is a few shots of Easy-Off away. I can't believe it's more than a $50 job for a decent body shop...

Does anyone have any idea what color black (or a paint code from GM or Color-Rite) the black mirror caps are painted? Also, if anyone has done this what did the paint shop charge you?

Thanks in advance,

Dan

Humdingah
07-20-2005, 07:37 PM
Rather than going through the hassle of finding someone with black mirror caps that are in relatively decent condition (my chrome caps have all of 500 miles on them now) I was wondering if anyone had painted their existing chrome caps? I can't imagine it's too hard to match the flat black of the mirror 'stalks' and stripping the chrome off of the existing ones is a few shots of Easy-Off away. I can't believe it's more than a $50 job for a decent body shop...

Does anyone have any idea what color black (or a paint code from GM or Color-Rite) the black mirror caps are painted? Also, if anyone has done this what did the paint shop charge you?

Thanks in advance,

Dan

Humdingah
07-21-2005, 01:44 AM
Alec,

What part of Denver are you in? I'm out in Highlands...

And how bad can rattle can satin black look? It's not exactly a 'show' color but it is the 'standard' color for the black mirror caps.

Dan