Best way to black out chrome?

[Kris77]

Taking ownership of a 22 Yukon XL SLT in a few weeks. Really wanted the look of the AT4 but can't find one anywhere close. Going to try and black out all the chrome on this one.
Wondering what the best way to go about this would be. Tape everything off and Plasti Dip spray it? Better way?

 

[Chad G 1979]

This is a good question, and i am following this as i want to black out my '23 tahoe without needing to spend way too much money goong up trim levels just to do so.

 

[BrokerThis]

Many have done:
- Vinyl wrap the chrome trim along windows, roof rails, front end, tailgate, moldings
- Paint the trim by removing then replacing
- Paint the Denali grill
- Paint the chrome on door handles

Pricing has varies depending on which process, but anywhere from $1000-2500 have been the quotes on here

Chrome delete picture thread

Let's see your pics after doing a chrome delete... Got ours done last week after 8 months of ownership. Most the emblems were removed first week we had it. The grill is a factory gmc part that I installed a while back. Roof rack is painted and the rest is wrapped. Rear gmc logo I had sprayed...

www.tahoeyukonforum.com

 

[Snowbound]

Vinyl is the way I did it

 

[Chad G 1979]

What kind of vinyl? Type of finish? How hard is it to do vinyl? From what i hsve seen on youtube it doesnt look terrible hard but i am not the most handy and not sure i could make it look good, but would be willing to try my hand.

 

[AngeloUCF]

Vinyl is the way I did it

I'd love to see more about what you used and how you did it, how it came out.

 

[NIevo]

Plasti Dip is by far the easiest and cheapest. Best thing is if you screw up you can peel it off and restart without having to buy more wrap. Here is the rear emblem I just did on our Yukon yesterday.

 

[13UpInSmoke]

Plasti dip or vinyl. Dip is easy & cheap & removable

 

[Snowbound]

I'd love to see more about what you used and how you did it, how it came out.

I use Vivid brand, seems to work best for me. Shrinks and stretches nice. Knifeless tape is the best way to trim it in when making cuts on vehicle. Plenty of videos showing how it works. Here’s a couple pics when I did the side moldings.

 

[Snowbound]

Also the trim piece across the hood.

 

[Snowbound]

They also sell a transparent vinyl for blacking out taillights which I used for the center high mounted brake light.

You can buy tool kits off Amazon that work really well. Doesn’t take any fancy tools. I use 70% isopropyl alcohol and water mix 60/40 to clean the parts first and a cheap $10 HF heat gun. Doesn’t take much heat to get the vinyl to do what you want it to do. When you get into some complex curves and corners it takes a little more practice but that is all learned from mistakes and practice. The hitch cover was one that tested my patients but I got it eventually. I don’t have a picture of it completed for some reason but you can see how this was a tedious job getting the vinyl to stretch and shrink where I needed it.

Just take your time and buy more vinyl than what you need because you may end up screwing up and starting over or you may find more things you want to wrap.

 

[Snowbound]

I ended up doing a wrap on my sled. I just wanted it to be all gloss black. The panels look easy enough to do but there were some good curves that had to be worked to make look good without creases or wrinkles.

My brother wanted to wrap his sled and I told him it takes time to get good at it but it’s not hard so he gave it a try.

His sled used to look like this.

He has a few spots where he got frustrated and it’s not perfect but overall it looks good. He didn’t find that pattern in vivid or 3m brand so that vinyl he used is a little harder to work with so I gotta give him credit. But he said he’ll never do that again because it sucked. Lol. That is why I tell people to buy the better quality product because you’re not saving anything with the cheaper stuff.
I started to do my sled in a snow camo print but the quality sucked and it wouldn’t stretch or shrink easily and it distorted the print getting it to lay right. I think the only way to use that cheap stuff is by cutting it and having a lot of seams which throws the pattern off anyway. So that’s when I just decided to go black because I had it and the season was upon us. But I like the black.