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I just got my mini painted in a flat, and I tell ya what, I am tempted to do it to the SS one of these days. Call me crazy! Great work man.

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Discussion starter · #46 ·
thanks for the complements . i dont know if i posted a picture of it after i had the wheels powder coated and i painted the badges to match the wheels so here it is.
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thanks for the complements . i dont know if i posted a picture of it after i had the wheels powder coated and i painted the badges to match the wheels so here it is.
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You did a damn good job on your SS!!! I was surfing hte JGCSRT8 forum and ran across this. Just thought I would share it

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Discussion starter · #49 ·
believe it or not , cops follow me now. had one pull a u and get behind me. am i fitting some kind of profile?and i hate to say this on the tbss forum. but if i could have gotten a srt-8 grand cherokee i would have. that thing looks completely sick in flat black. makes me want to get one and do it too.
 
believe it or not , cops follow me now. had one pull a u and get behind me. am i fitting some kind of profile?and i hate to say this on the tbss forum. but if i could have gotten a srt-8 grand cherokee i would have. that thing looks completely sick in flat black. makes me want to get one and do it too.
Both are good lookn SUV's but to each there own. You two are the only badass SUV's that are flat black, that I know of and both are sickkkkkkk!!!! :cheers1:
 
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thanks so much. i would love to sit it down a bit in the near future. and find some head light covers, sand them down and put flat clear on them.
 
thanks so much. i would love to sit it down a bit in the near future. and find some head light covers, sand them down and put flat clear on them.
I agree that would really set the look off nicely!!! :biggrin2:
 
That shiat looks great!
 
Both are good lookn SUV's but to each there own. You two are the only badass SUV's that are flat black, that I know of and both are sickkkkkkk!!!! :cheers1:
I've seen pictures of the Porsche Cayenne Turbo S's in flat black, and the M-B ML63s in flat black as well. And back before they were considered (really really) slow, lots of Range Rover Sports in flat black. The oil sheik baron people over in the middle east pretty much love flat black, and so there's probably at least one flat black car of everything they have over there. I think there's 2 guys with flat GCSRT8s over there, but I could be wrong.

Personally if I was going to go flat black, I would just use a high quality vinyl (most exotics and cars done by people who worry about selling them ever actually use vinyl). A guy on autopia actually wraps them using some pretty high quality vinyl (it's warrantied for like 5 years but can last up to 10 years or something, really high end stuff made by some German company IIRC). Anyways, it looks the same as paint, and it's removable should you sell the car or trade it in, because altering the factory paint on a car will typically KILL your resale more than one could imagine, unless you find that right buyer(who typically is out there, just a lot harder to find). I think it's something like 1000-1500to wrap a car, but I'm not too sure.

Anyways, it looks really good on the truck. I like the wheels with it the most, it almost looks like a flat version of the factory coloring, like if there was just no gloss from the factory, that's what it'd look like. Very unique.

But yes, you do fit a profile now. Cops will continue to follow you at all times. So be careful out there.
 
I just saw a C63 on ebay that was flat black and he said it was wrapped in vinyl. Looks very clean from the pics, but who knows what it looks like in real life up close. The wrap is a good idea though since it should be pretty easy to take off if you wanted to. Leaves the option to go back to glossy if you wanted. I think the GC looks a little better with the flat since it has sharper lines. The tbss looks good too, but something about the wheel well area that doesnt do it for me. Nice job though!
 
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