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Re: Blacking out chrome
Stephen Jagernauth wrote:
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> Igor Kessel has an '89 200TQ with:
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> >Whatever used to be cromed - got blacked out.
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> Igor,
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> How did you black out the chrome? Is it DIY and approx cost? I'd like to
> do this to my tqw.
There is a matte "Black-out Tape" in any Pep Toys, about $3/roll. The
roll is about 10m long by 50mm wide. Sticks like a SOB. Unlike a
conventional electrical tape, this one is hardly stretcheabe. When I did
the front molding, that runs around the grill, I had to use a heatgun to
make the tape stretch arount the headlights' sidemarkers. Watch out for
those bubbles. Should you fail to evacuate all of them, you can always
pierce them with a needle later.
Igor Kessel
'89 200TQ