just paint em,, easiest way BY FAR and looks great

Mine use to be grey, just how they all turn out

 

Go to your local PPG automtive paint distributer. Get some grease and wax remover and bumper or trim paint in the finish/color you want. Scrub your parts real good with a strong household degreaser, Rinse thouroughly and let dry. Then use the PPG degreaser right before painting. Their bumper paint has a flex agent as well as UV protection like the trim paint. Two spray cans will run about $14 here in WA. For metal parts that I want a glossy black on I use the Krylon, Epoxy, Aplliance paint. It has a rust converter/inhibiter and only runs about $4.50. I have used all of these and they hold up realy well for the price/effort...

PS: Not sure why the one post mentioned that they are stickey too. Ask the paint rep about that before you try to spray them!

 

"back to black" worked for me.

 

Started to do this by removing the flares then paint, ended up breaking 2 bolts on the rear retainer. I stoped and called my local stealership just to see if they were still available and what they cost. Yes you can get em at around $25 a piece - There's 8, 2 per tire. That's just for the retainer rings - not the flares. Damn $200 bucks!!! I'm taping off and painting. Gonna do my flares, bumpers, and grill. Painted the one flare looks sweet. Definatly go SATIN BLACK...

 

Its kinda entertaining how everyone wants to spend money on consumables when using a heat gun will do a job that isn't going to flake off or need to re re-applied every month. Plus a heat gun can be used over and over again and they can be had fairly cheaply at any hardware store. I know a guy who did that with his Wrangler on the interior trim and it looks brand new...don't paint them or buy some stupid product, buy a heat gun and save yourself the hassle

 

use heat it works awsome, heat gun will work and torch will to, if you use a torch just keep moving or you will obviously burn it but i did my door moldings bumper ends and my snow flap on my snowmobile.

 

LOL I was just going to mention this trick......it works

 

I know I'm late to this discussion but I have had great success using Duplicolor's Bumper Coating. It's black, made for plastic, and lasts forever.

http://www.duplicolor.com/products/bumper.html

 

Be careful heating the door mouldings along with flares. maybe mine were aftermarket after an accident? Only had jeep 1.5 years now. But the trims tape at the ends loosened and curled out a little. Enough to hit the front fender and push it in a little when opening door. After lots of same search never heard of this. Too much heat? Aftermarket moulding?

 

Any one try this yet ?....CVS carries it in as seen on tv section.http://www.wipenew.com/?etag=GAAORG&...FUMV7Aod1jQAwQ

 

krylon for plastic