rcs128

I painted my speaker grilles black to clean them up a bit -- the oak was showing a lot of scuffs and had a little bit of rust on them. I love they way they came out -- I used Duplicolor Interior paint in flat black -- but I'm not 100% sure if it's a visual improvement. What do you guys think?

0EG@EnglandGreen

I used Matt Black - looks mint. Nice mod

charlene

They look great to me

peter pan

Looks very good and like it came from the factory that way

c5BlackBeauty

Looks good.....factory perfect/

rcs128

Thanks, guys (and gals!). I think part of what bugs me about it is that the finish actually looks BETTER than some of the factory stuff, and for that reason it's almost out of place.

The more I look at it, though, the more I'm happy with it.

Z06-JIM

Good job, it looks to me!...

MNCorvette

looks GREAT. how did you mount your deck??? did it take lots of cutting i have the same deck from kenwood and am considering selling it to avoid the hassel of trying to install it.

CCA Corvette Parts

They came out great!

Peace
Willfulone

BAD AZZ C5

My grills came black from factory. Your mod looks just like mine. I think they turned out very well from the picture. Any issues when you look up close?

2K14C7

not bad.

BeastieBoys21

I like it

Sneed

I don't think it looks any better or worse than oak. I'll bet people wouldn't know it wasn't stock unless you said something.

Johnny_B_Good

Looks like it came that way from the factory.

mike1944

Looks factory. I like it.

rcs128

Thanks... the deck thing was a whole adventure in itself... lots of cutting, reshaping, sanding, painting, and fitting. Here's a link to the summary of the work involved.

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show...t=another+avic

If you search the audio forum you'll finld lots of info on how it's done -- a lot of guys have done some amazing double-din installs.

mcburner

Looks great. I need to do that same thing. Some rust, dents, etc. Any advice on removing small dents? Great job bud.

rcs128

Just be careful taking the door panels off so that you don't break any of the little plastic push-pin fasteners. Once you have the door panels off the grilles are a piece of cake to remove -- you just bend a couple tabs and they come right off. A little smooth pressure on the back ought to get them right back into shape.

PS -- I got the instructions on removing the door panels from Vette Essentials webpage.

jodfit

They look great, I like the contrast, I was thinking of doing mine silver to against a black interior.

2EZ2BQK

I like it, and I like it very much! Nice job!