Is this a standard accessory grill , or someone has personally blacked it .

[Nikhil Malhotra]

Looks like someone has blacked the grill ... quite neat job.

 

[Whitey]

Haven't seen that before, but appears to simply be painted matte black. Oddly, including the front cruise radar which I doubt will work properly now.

 

[Suburbazine]

Oddly, including the front cruise radar which I doubt will work properly now.

As long as the paint isn't metallic in nature or is trapping moisture against the plastic, the radar won't know the difference. You'd probably need to build up a quarter inch of paint to have an issue of any kind.

 

[surprisinguy]

He should have sanded and painted the bottom where he's run it up on the curb so much

 

[Whitey]

As long as the paint isn't metallic in nature or is trapping moisture against the plastic, the radar won't know the difference. You'd probably need to build up a quarter inch of paint to have an issue of any kind.

Good to know, Sub.

 

[Whitey]

He should have sanded and painted the bottom where he's run it up on the curb so much

Noticed that too on the right side; makes my eye twitch knowing it's there, lol.

 

[Stubby1971]

The previous owner of my 2015 5.0 had the grill blacked out with vinyl shrink wrap. Looks fantastic but hard to fix it where stones have chipped it....

 

[carguy75]

As long as the paint isn't metallic in nature or is trapping moisture against the plastic, the radar won't know the difference. You'd probably need to build up a quarter inch of paint to have an issue of any kind.

How do you know this? Have you tried it yourself? If so, then I may wrap my sensor and grill as well. I do not want spend good money to wrap the sensor and then get an error message based off speculative information.

 

[surprisinguy]

It is radar after all

 

[Stubby1971]

The sensor is not wrapped on my grill.

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[Suburbazine]

How do you know this? Have you tried it yourself? If so, then I may wrap my sensor and grill as well. I do not want spend good money to wrap the sensor and then get an error message based off speculative information.

haven't tested. Just know the properties of millimeter-wave RF at 77Ghz. Short of water or metallics, you’re not going to alter or attenuate it to an unresolvable degree. Plastics and similar RF transparent materials such as Latex won’t matter much, up to a certain combined density.

if you want to test on the cheap use a dozen layers of Saran Wrap. Just don’t trap water in between layers or you’ll significantly increase sensitivity to rainfall.

Also, the plastic plate is not the sensor. It’s just a debris guard to prevent objects from impacting the transceiver array mounted behind.

 

[carguy75]

haven't tested. Just know the properties of millimeter-wave RF at 77Ghz. Short of water or metallics, you’re not going to alter or attenuate it to an unresolvable degree. Plastics and similar RF transparent materials such as Latex won’t matter much, up to a certain combined density.

if you want to test on the cheap use a dozen layers of Saran Wrap. Just don’t trap water in between layers or you’ll significantly increase sensitivity to rainfall.

Also, the plastic plate is not the sensor. It’s just a debris guard to prevent objects from impacting the transceiver array mounted behind.

True, the sensor is located behind the shield plate on the grill, however I am not certain about covering the sensor shield plate with vinyl.

Yet, you do make a good argument so I will talk to a local vinyl wrap shop and see what they say because I do want to wrap the chrome bars in the center of the grill in flat black for a more aggressive look. I was thinking that I should not cover the protective plate on the grill, hopefully a thin layer of vinyl will not affect the system.

 

[Stubby1971]

The previous owner of my 2015 5.0 had the grill blacked out with vinyl shrink wrap. Looks fantastic but hard to fix it where stones have chipped it....

 

[marius883]

Dang that thing looks so bad ass!!!

 

[Key14]

What size tires are those on that bad boy?

 

[Bmi949]

I want to wrap my grill. Anyone know how to take off the plastic cover? Thanks