(Custom Bull Bar) help me decide on a color/ finish

Oh shoot I was scrolling down thinking, man, he really needs to color match the grille! Looks great though. Post up some more pics of your finished parking lights. I have yet to see any night time shots.
A new grille is on the way; I'll get it color-matched when it arrives. My led markers are still at the PCB shop
(printed circuit board shop) getting repaired. Hopefully everything will come together soon, so I can take some
proper pics.


Uraban, Your tail lights are really sharp... Did you mod your own or what?
I bought them on a ebay several years ago. I think they've been discontinued for a while. I'm trying to harass
some manufacturers to make us a set of oem LED tail lights. Maybe one of them will budge.


I'm interested in that gas tank skid. More info?
The skid was made by a German company called antec. They discontinued their XJ line a while back, but
I found a company on ebay.de that's still clearing out some new antec stock. I had the part glassblasted and
powdercoated to match my front bar and rims. The company also sells outside ebay; here's their url oc-ts.de
(click Edelstahl Zubehör in the top left menu than click Restposten)
 
It took forever, but I finally found someone that does professional work... cheap.
I chose the color/ sanded down the fog covers; he did the rest. Special thanks
to Starboard M for the spare Hella covers for this project

and yes, I'm aware the driver's side bumper cap needs to be fixed. It's on the list.

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I'm really pleased with the finish. I had the stickers made to the same size as the Jeep emblem previously on my header panel, and I had the guy put them under the clearcoat so they hold up better. It also looks like he added some of the left-over gray metallic into the clearcoat to give the finish some extra depth. I'm guessing he was trying to replicated the hammertone?

Anyways, I'm amazed how I flip-flopped on this project... from stainless steel to gray. I never expected this would be my end result when I started.
 
way too much chrome for me..hahah
 
Dig it. I'd thought about a two tone scheme when I started cleaning mine up, but I didn't like the look of color accents on white- I thought about a met silver to match the Jeep badging, but I didn't think it would fly on a white XJ. Works on the dark colors though. Looking pretty slick.
 
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