[Ant FR]

Ok guys, My car has taken on a real moody sort of Black and Silver look, ie wheels going black, spotlights have been done in black. I am also changing the S-badges to Black, and really want to lose the chrome line that goes rounnd the screen , doors and rear hatch. i saw a car up Santa pod not so long ago that had black seals, but can't find a part number on REALOEM, so can anyone help me out.

[Sportspack Mark]

i know you can get 3M dechroming tape that sticks on top of your chrome trim!

thats all i know, sorry if this is no help

[Ant FR]

i now remember who's car ity was , well not who's in particular, but he was up santa pod with Bigshow back in November i think it was on the sunday.

[sef]

I've done that to mine... Buy some black electrical tape... Very easy to do and very cheap... Looks superb too...

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c146/hpmcs/DEC2.jpg
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c146/hpmcs/DEC1.jpg

[Jove]

Quote: Originally Posted by Ant FR (original)

i now remember who's car ity was , well not who's in particular, but he was up santa pod with Bigshow back in November i think it was on the sunday.

I think that was me...

If you want some of the tape i have quite a bit left over enough to do a couple of cars.

PM me and i'll post it to you..

[nylo]

You might want to pick Pobsey's brains too, he's dechromed just about everything, including possibly his bathplug

[Ant FR]

does the tape last well,

Jove thanks for the offer, i think i have some in the garagem just did'nt realise thats what you had done, when i saw i assumed it was a stand BMW part, that will explaing the really puzzled look i got from the parts gyuy last time i asked. he said there was no such thing and i called him a liar cos i had seen yours. Doh!.

Ok, i will endeavour to have a go, thats good news though because it will be a lot cheaper than i had budgeted for.....lol

[Jove]

I've had the tape on the car for a while. Done lots of motorway driving and haven't had a problem with it yet.

[RyanK]

Same story here, have used electrical tape. Works well and looks cool!

[Lolance]

Thinking about the dechrome in the near future too! Just thinking of how to do the door handles and headlight trims now, vinyl?

[sef]

I've wrapped the headlight rings in the past... Not that difficult to do... I think you'll be better off getting the handles sprayed though...

[ScottyBoy]

Ive done this also.....

.... I found some shiny black tape on the floor at work and thought "that looks the right size for my chrome strip" and it worked great.



Ive taken it off now as i dent put it on good enough and it was coming off, ill be re-doing it shortly but alot neater.

Quote: Originally Posted by sef (original)

I've wrapped the headlight rings in the past... Not that difficult to do... I think you'll be better off getting the handles sprayed though...

Or Wrap them in carbon fibre.

Ill be doing alot of this in the next few weeks and ill put a thread up of the bits i do.

[Lolance]

Nice one ScottyBoy!

Dechrome and carbon fibre is the way to go!

Maybe not so soon on my new Dooper tho...

[Hartge210]

Or Wrap them in carbon fibre.

Ill be doing alot of this in the next few weeks and ill put a thread up of the bits i do. [/quote]

Sounds mate, will be looking out for that

[MarkW]

50p roll of insulation tape did mine, and I've got masses left,

[Randall Raines]

I was thinking about de-chroming the line around the windows, as well as using insulation tape as suggested previously we used to have a stripe man that called around who had loads of pin stripes (Go-faster stripes) in different colours & different thickness's sometimes cutting out the need to trim the tape to the thickness of the insert whether it's chrome or whatever making a neater job especially if your not a arts & crafts sort of a person, or just don't have the patience to cut it all to fit .

I know a stripe man doesn't call around to everybody's house but Halfords did used to sell the stripes as-well (not sure if they still do though ).

That does look good "ScottyBoy", I'm normally a fan of black and lots of chrome .

[Hartge210]

Saw this company over on Nam a while back, looks like they do some really good stuff & with the £ - $ at such a good rate, stuff wouldn't be too expensive. The members name is Lagston. I found this pic of a door handle he's wrapped, on one of the threads. I think I'll be saving up for some goodies

Lyles Vinyl Styles - Custom MINI accessories

[Darthbladerni]

Quote: Originally Posted by Hartge210 (original)

Saw this company over on Nam a while back, looks like they do some really good stuff & with the £ - $ at such a good rate, stuff wouldn't be too expensive. The members name is Lagston. I found this pic of a door handle he's wrapped, on one of the threads. I think I'll be saving up for some goodies

Lyles Vinyl Styles - Custom MINI accessories

That is actually very very neat!

[OJM]

Think you can buy black and carbon door handles on one of the MINI2 sponsors site...

[sef]

I've asked about black handles and was told that BMW don't make/supply them...