I really dislike the chrome mirror covers and there doesn't seem to be a way to get body colored covers. I wish you could buy just the body colored cover like you can the chrome one.
Can't I just buy a Laredo mirror in my body color and take the mirror cover from that? Two mirrors would be $250. Would rather have a much cheaper option but I would spend the money just to get rid of the chrome covers.
I would like to lose my chrome mirror covers and replace them for some painted Brilliant Black ones. You can buy entire mirror assembles but not just the painted BB covers alone! Even though Mopar does offer just the covers in chrome for Laredo owners who want chrome.
black Ops makes some mirror covers in CF that fit perfect. get enough peeps together and you may be able to talk him into FG covers you could have painted.
I'm interested in Brilliant Black mirror covers too. Although, when I left work today and walked up to my GC the chrome looked pretty good. Zero interest in Carbon Fiber.
I tried to plasti dip it twice now but I can't get it to look even without sanding it. I plasti dipped the grill and it looks great, but that piece is really tricky.
actually, now that i think about it - maybe i'll just buy a set of the chrome covers and have *those* painted. that way, if the paint doesn't hold up for some reason i can always go back to the original ones.
also - i want to get the back chrome trim piece on the liftgate painted body color. i think i found it on trademotion, but i want to make sure i have the right one. i have a 2012 overland. would it be the one that says backup camera-all?
the reason i am going to buy an additional chrome piece is because i want to keep the original for when i sell.
Check the SRT section of jeep garage. There's a thread about it and someone listed the part #. I'm replacing that chrome with brilliant black too, but I'm just going to wait for the new "Black Edition" or "Altitude" (whatever the Name it) to come out and then get that part so it will be already painted.
any idea when the new jeep will come out? i figured it could be a good long while before it comes out and parts are available. do you think they'll have BB mirror covers too? maybe i should just wait . . .
i ended up buying two brilliant black laredo mirrors from a trademotion site. it was a big PITA because they kept telling me the mirrors wouldn't swap with mine, no matter how many times i explained that i just wanted the caps. for the most part everyone told me it wasn't possible to swap out the caps. thanks to this forum, i know that it is!
two mirrors were about $225. i also got the black step up pad (under the liftgate) and a replacement chrome trim piece above the license plate that i'm going to have scott paint.
can't wait to get rid of some of this chrome! i'm also going to pull off the door trim pieces.
i ended up buying two brilliant black laredo mirrors from a trademotion site. it was a big PITA because they kept telling me the mirrors wouldn't swap with mine, no matter how many times i explained that i just wanted the caps. for the most part everyone told me it wasn't possible to swap out the caps. thanks to this forum, i know that it is!
two mirrors were about $225. i also got the black step up pad (under the liftgate) and a replacement chrome trim piece above the license plate that i'm going to have scott paint.
can't wait to get rid of some of this chrome! i'm also going to pull off the door trim pieces.
I thought I read that you could order the chrome mirror caps. I would have thought it would be cheaper to buy those and have them painted than full mirror assemblies.
you can. but the chrome mirrors are $100 and it is $40 to get scott to paint them - plus shipping back to me. it was only another hundred or so to just get them pre-painted. i was worried that the paint might start to peel at some point since it's painted on chrome.
If paint job is done right with good products (for chrome) paint will never peel from chrome. I have chrome painted on some of my cars and paint still like new even after 5 years ( + Chicago winters).
i don't have the part numbers but here is the link to the trademotion store.
I ordered the first two in the list - essentially, the cheapest black mirrors. Unfortunately, the mirrors ended up costing more than the site said they would. I guess the site isn't always updated in a timely manner. They ended up costing $380 including shipping. I didn't find this out until after I ordered. I am only going to use the mirror caps. Not sure what I'll do with the rest of the mirrors. Apparently, there is a black heated mirror with blind spot, but they cost like $480 each. Its the Limited mirror from 2011 before they went to chrome.
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