This weekend I decided to spiff up the H3 a bit and take care of my grill that had paint flaking off and also my parking lamps. I was going to Line-X it but cheapest quote I got was for 150 with me doing all the prep work myself. I couldnt see shelling out that kind of cash so I bought a can of $6 duplicolor bedliner and a can of $12 VHT Night Shades tint spray for lights lenses. Both products worked great. The bedliner seems like it will hold up great as it leaves a thick texture that blends in very well with the bumpers texture. I even accidentally whacked the grill on the corner of my garage when moving it to put it back on and not even a scratch. The tint also worked great and I didnt even have to remove the lenses from the truck. Was extremely satisfied with the results and wanted to post this up since I see many threads of people debating spray bedlining their grills themselves.

 

Looks real good... did you do the side markers as well? Got pics of side and whole front end of H3? Please post.. thanks..

 

Looks awesome! i don't know how you guys do such a good job of painting, i tried to paint my snowboard racks and i ruined them! Haha. But yeah, i think that texture looks better than if you bought a gm black grill. i don't like how the gm grill is gloss black. i might tryto have someone else paint all my chrome with duplicolor jetliner. great job

 

This is the only picture I have of the whole side right now. At work so can't take a better one. It's before I did the grille and other mods but the side markers have been done for a while.

mthoodh3- believe me, I suck at painting haha. But trust me, the bedliner is so easy to work with. I messed up about three spots and all you do is simply sand down the area and put a new coat on top and it blends in with the rest. Should be easy to touch up as well should I ever need to.

 

That looks great!! Did you remove the chrome completely before applying? From the pics the texture is barely visible.

Love your wheels what size wheel / tire combo?

 

Very nice! My dad and I did the same thing to my H3, but i haven't tinted the parking lamps, only the tail lights. I might have the parking lamps done as well soon. Thanks for sharing!

 

Ak47dennis- my grill before this was body colored but flaking off so the chrome was already gone. I just sanded the black paint off and scuffed it up a little. As for the tire/wheel combo I'm running 35x12.50x20 Toyo open country M/T's.

 

Looks awesome. I had my front parking lights and rear lights tinted but the matte black grill really makes the difference. By the way nice camaro you can never go wrong with black.