i painted my two front grills, bumper ends, rear intake grills and mirrors
this summer.  I first washed and scrubbed them with dishsoap, sun dried
them for a few hours, masked the important parts (mirror surface and
mount, and VW emblem) and then spray painted them with Ace Semi-gloss
black.

That was in July 99. they appear to be holding fine- i have done a
handful of short trips since then, but nothing really big.

Matthew Pollard             http://www.uidaho.edu/~poll7356
Dept. of Chemistry               http://www.chem.uidaho.edu
University of Idaho                   http://www.uidaho.edu

On Mon, 14 Feb 2000 JordanVw@AOL.COM wrote:

> In a message dated 2/13/00 11:43:46 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> southeastvw@HOTMAIL.COM writes:
>
> <<  would like to take off my front grill and repaint it. With spray paint of
>  course, but was wondering if anyone had done this and prep work needs to be
>  done.
>    I had once looked it someones van site and saw that he had done that to
>  his grill.
>    Any sugguestions comments?
>   >>
>
>
> just take it off, wipe it down w/ cleaner, and spray it with semi-gloss black.
>
> chris
>