To paint or not to paint that's the question.

Right as some of you may have seen on my build thread, I have now had the car lowered and the wheels spaced. This has led to me having to swap the fibreglass rmm lip for a polyurethane one.

Now I'm unsure weather to get the new one painted or not.

What would you do? Also I may be switching the skirts to oem pods so that's an added factor to consider

BEFORE

AFTER

Personal choice would be to not paint, especially if you're going to lose the skirts

That said, it'd suit facelifted inserts with the black rmm lip to tie it together

IMO I like the unpainted look but over time they fade

Unpainted for me dude

Unpainted for me dude

+1

On silver I'd paint it personally.

Unpainted for me.

Unpainted

I think the choice/angle of pics may be skewing the results, I personally think painted looks better but that 'after' pic looks better of the 2, if that makes sense

I have them on both my white and silver supras. Unpainted ftw. plus when you do hit something with it the urethane will flex and remain undamaged. the paint will crack and look like crap

Unpainted but only if you remove the skirts.

Unpainted here too

Unpainted with stock skirts and a straight number plate.

painted if your keeping the skirts. unpainted if your taking them off

painted if your keeping the skirts. unpainted if your taking them off

Unpainted with stock skirts look great

Have it silver mate definitely, I'm in the middle of refurbing mine as it was severely cracked. Re-doing the fibreglass and everything. Currently black but I'll be having it silver as I think it matches and improves the look of the car.

Paint the skirts Black and the Lip Black

I even like the wings on mine, un painted it looks like it should have come from the factory that way.

Guessing the general consensus is to leave it black, I think I'm going to for now and see how it fairs, Maybe I shall paint it further down the line.

I have them on both my white and silver supras. Unpainted ftw. plus when you do hit something with it the urethane will flex and remain undamaged. the paint will crack and look like crap

Cracking doesn't worry me, that's what flexi-agent is for mix it in with the paint and it should hold up well. Plus my dads a paint sprayer for a living so can always be redone when needed.

Unpainted with stock skirts and a straight number plate.

See someone else picked up on that, its the damn removable number plate holder I made, it drooped last year. Need to re-do it with thicker plastic or thin metal.

i'd leave it unpainted but when you take photos as below the lip often merges into the surroundings and makes the car look higher than it is.

i'd leave it unpainted but when you take photos as below the lip often merges into the surroundings and makes the car look higher than it is.

 

http://i545.photobucket.com/albums/hh375/C12MMO/IMG_3061_zps8e4693be.jpg

Yeah that's a good point but I think im going to leave it for now.

Where did you get this lip from out of interest?

Unpainted mate on silver.

Where did you get this lip from out of interest?

imported from us ebay.

imported from us ebay.

Just see this, cheers for that. No way of getting them like that here then?