what color were these things originally? mine was kind of a sick tan/silver color that doesn't match anything else on the truck... so I painted it black. Figured if I put on a billet cover type grile, i don't want to see through to that color...

 

Just did the EXACT same thing a few days ago. I read somewhere it was a '99 thing where they had the silver honeycomb grill option.

before






After




Looks 5 years newer. Best mod under $20 I've ever done.

 

Black looks fantastic! Mine was black, afraid it's fading; although this may have inspired me to re-paint it. Good job!

 

CK, what a coincidence. You did it the right way, looks good. I was skeer'd of breaking clips, I was running out of daylight, and didn't want to go back to auto parts store. good thing i had a couple rolls of the blue tape.

 

wow what a difference.. looks awesome

 

that's funny, I painted my faded gey honey comb grills silver

 

Tara, you have a pic?

 

Silver was 99 only, 00+ was originally dark grey

 

was the dark grey integral, or a coating/paint?

 

Funny, I thought my 99 was color matched to my truck! Never knew I was special.

 

same grey plastic on the rest of the truck. Its dyed plastic but UV breaks the color beading in it

 

I wonder if they even try to put some UV inhibitors in the plastic? like the awful Armadillo back from the avalanche:

 

sure do





then I did a lil' touch up

 

damnit i asked for a pic, not to be shown up. that looks sick on black!
TX Ranger

 

only Lightning with that setup (that can be found)