To chrome, or not to chrome
 

well as you all know my rear is sportin the chrome CAMARO inserts. well i like them up close and the fact that theyre chrome makes a big dif, but from a distance they look like poo. i'm thinking of maybe selling the chrome inserts for 60 bucks (95 bucks regularly) and then buying black urethane letters from rksport...any thoughts?

post some shots of Carmen's(the car!) rear with thte chrome... can't remember what it looks like of the top of my head...

Also, when buying new ones, check out this site. They have HUGE selection of color options. http://www.autotrimdesign.net/detail...&category=8253

colors: http://www.autotrimdesign.com/Standa...hart-Vinyl.htm

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...men/chrome.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...rmen/black.jpg

I say stick with the chrome on yours.. do you have any far away shots of the rear? You said thats where the issue of them looking funny is. From that distance there, I can still tell they are chrome, and they still look good to me.

if you go balck i got my vinyl inserts for like 10 bucks including shipping somehwere, but i forgot where. i can look it up if you're intrested in that.

Brent does em too

But the chrome looks sweet in my opinion

yeah, but brent (and a lot of others) don't do the domed polyurethane ones, which look so much better than the regular ones, at least IMO.

stay with chrome. EVERYONE has the red/black theme.

Ill trade ya..

tru dat. i do like the price of the domed ones from afterthoughtauto. 35 bucks! dam. the thing is with the chrome, the letters are the color of whatever is around them. if they were polished aluminum then they would shine and they'd be the same color...its weird...

I like the chrome

I think you should go with the camo inserts:

http://www.geocities.com/nwo4lifekn/camoinserts.jpg

:lolsign:

i like the chrome, bc it draws more attention to your chrome pipe tips at the same time, with those 2 chrome in the rear end.............

I like the chrome too because the Tips on ure exhaust and the wheels

yeah the chrome looks tight--i think u should leave it...:) ur car ALWAYS looks so shiny and pretty in every picture...i want mine to be that shiny

x2

its funny...its just brand new 2-stage paint, which is base coat, then clear coat. i think danielle's is the same thing, and hers is just as new as mine...so why does mine always seem to reflect so much? i dont even wax it...

X2.. and yeah.. chrome is the way to go

mine is crap.. ours aren't really the same paint job though. because mine is crap. hopefully not for long, though.

oh i figured since mine was maaco and yours was earl sheib or whatever that it was the same...hmm i guess maaco isnt bad after all :D

shine also has a lot to do with colors, types of paints, etc. etc. Hopefully this spring, a co worker's brother will be painting my car. But that's only if he is still doing them, and if he doesn't quote me an outrageous price. If he does... well, then its back to ES I guess.

painter has a major effect, also all maacos are independantly owned every once in a while you get a good one

i got a good one then, but it took two paint jobs to get it right :(

it took 2 jobs for ES to get it half right.

well tehy cut cost by not using the resperator, teh 3rd car through starts to move on the painter :lolsign:

It must be something there for them to suck so bad. I really hope I find someone pretty good around here who will paint my car for a not so bad price, or I'm gonna have to take her back there and that makes me sad. :(


So Caleb, did you decide to stick with the chrome or get rid of it?

i have been giving it a lotta thought...the chrome looks good up close, and that combined with me being broke and lazy, i guess im gonna stick with it.

:lolsign: :lolsign:

at least your honest :nana: