paint matched my mirrors (with vinyl)

JExpress14 · Mar 16, 2016

so I saw a few threads about paint matching mirrors etc, I daily drive my truck and lots of highway driving so I took that into consideration. I figured the paint would get chipped over time from rocks etc, so I bought some 1080 3m gloss black vinyl. I took my mirrors apart and wrapped the outer part of them that gets painted. I think it came out pretty good. If you have a basic color truck like white or black it will work easily, not sure about other colors though.

before (pass side)

after (driver side)

final both sides

AustinB · Mar 16, 2016

Looks good.. I'm going to wrap mine with the leftovers from my bumper and grill (when I get around to it).

Maybe a closer pic would help.

IMO

JExpress14 · Mar 16, 2016

Ok I'll take a closer one. I left the mirror textured so up close you can still see the texture. I would sand them down and wet sand them smooth, but if I ever wanted to remove the vinyl I'd be boned.

JExpress14 · Mar 16, 2016

AustinB said:
Looks good.. I'm going to wrap mine with the leftovers from my bumper and grill (when I get around to it).

Maybe a closer pic would help.

IMO

AustinB · Mar 16, 2016

How would it look if you doubled the layers of vinyl? Would that smooth it out?

IMO

wsutard1 · Mar 16, 2016

Plastidip + glossifier

sbarron · Mar 16, 2016

wsutard1 said:
Plastidip + glossifier

nope. Just paint the muthas...

Basham · Mar 16, 2016

Sanded painted mirrors loved it so much I sanded my chrome grill surround color matched it whit and then painted the insert green looks good on my big girl.

sbarron · Mar 16, 2016

Op, I'm impressed with the quality of your work. Nice job.

JExpress14 · Mar 17, 2016

AustinB said:
How would it look if you doubled the layers of vinyl? Would that smooth it out?

IMO

I was thinking that too, it's quite possible but idk. The vinyl I used was pretty thin I would say 50/50 chance that it would be smoother. From 10 ft away you can't really tell its textured and once your up close it looks like it's painted with a texture to it.

bigolayne · Mar 17, 2016

Looks real good...

Avgas · Mar 17, 2016

Nice, how do you take the mirror apart?

timmmithy · Mar 17, 2016

JExpress14 said:
so I saw a few threads about paint matching mirrors etc, I daily drive my truck and lots of highway driving so I took that into consideration. I figured the paint would get chipped over time from rocks etc, so I bought some 1080 3m gloss black vinyl. I took my mirrors apart and wrapped the outer part of them that gets painted. I think it came out pretty good. If you have a basic color truck like white or black it will work easily, not sure about other colors though.

before (pass side)

after (driver side)

final both sides

Do you have a how to for the wrap? Been doing some research and I've seen a few different methods but they were for a different mirror style. I would love to see how a ram owner did it.

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JExpress14 · Mar 17, 2016

timmmithy said:
Do you have a how to for the wrap? Been doing some research and I've seen a few different methods but they were for a different mirror style. I would love to see how a ram owner did it.

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I would explain how I did it myself but I just found this video that saves me the time of explaining it lol. Only thing is I took the mirror cap portion off of the truck. There was a thread about how to remove the mirror glass somewhere. It's not too hard you basically put the mirror to full down position and then I used a long flathead screwdriver and you will see two sort of retaining type pressure clips and I pushed it while holding the mirror still and slightly pulling outwards. Once you pop the two clips off you then reverse and raise the mirror all the way up and you can jimmy the lower position clips lose then three t20 screws and you can separate all the mirror parts but the guts

JExpress14 · Mar 17, 2016

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6fl1WUNofPs

CMil527 · Mar 18, 2016

nice job!

jlpowell84 · Mar 18, 2016

I was thinking of doing a black carbon fiber vinyl wrap on my mirrors, possibly other exterior places.

wsutard1 · Mar 18, 2016

jlpowell84 said:
I was thinking of doing a black carbon fiber vinyl wrap on my mirrors, possibly other exterior places.

There was another post in which we all decided that it is all our of responsibilities to not let our Ram buddies rice their truck. Just like we would never let you drive drunk.

You are a representation for the group as a whole, remember your responsibility....

Ram owners dont let other Ram owners rice.

AustinB · Mar 18, 2016

wsutard1 said:
There was another post in which we all decided that it is all our of responsibilities to not let our Ram buddies rice their truck. Just like we would never let you drive drunk.

You are a representation for the group as a whole, remember your responsibility....

Ram owners dont let other Ram owners rice.

I tried helping some other members out, same concept, but yellow fog lights.

IMO

wsutard1 · Mar 18, 2016

AustinB said:
I tried helping some other members out, same concept, but yellow fog lights.

IMO

We can only lead the horse to water. We cant make them drink.

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