Did some blacking

[Sean2010]

I did a little work over the weekend and decided to black out my emblems. I think they look 100x better than the chrome...the only thing that bothers me now is that stupid chrome part in the smile...that will take a little more work to get done...onto the couple pics...let me know what you think. Don't mind the car being dirty, if you seen my driveway, you'd understand.

(nana)

 

[JP0317]

Looks great

 

[ToNeZ90]

looks good, sir. Do the canadian mz3's come with the axela badge from factory? I want to buy that badge, set up the badges like urs, and peel off the 3

 

[Sean2010]

looks good, sir. Do the canadian mz3's come with the axela badge from factory? I want to buy that badge, set up the badges like urs, and peel off the 3

No, I took the 3 off and got this badge from ebay. I think it evens out the rear a little. Thanks for the compliment

 

[jabobson]

Looking good with those being blacked out on that blue paint job! I just ordered an Axela badge myself and can't wait to have that little difference on my car. I also did the "M" mod to get rid of the round look of the Mazda symbol. I know I've seen it before, but it's a cool mod I think. Also, you should think about blacking out your fender reflectors. I know safety is cool and all, but they are ugly in my opinion. Take a look...




Also, what did you use to darken your 3rd brake light like that? Does it still function?

 

[CTt3P5]

Looks good and IIRC you can remove that chrome strip...I think?

jabobson....I'm going to guess that it's either a vinyl overlay or nite shades. That said, Sean you now need to get some overlays for those reflectors on the rear bumper.

 

[Sean2010]

LOL....i already had that don but they came off....so i have to order a new set dammit. I have my side markers tinted as well as you can see from my sig.
As for the 3rd brake light, I used night shades to tint it. It held up great and you can still see the light fine.

I want to do the evil m but you cant do the front the same and I don't want 2 different symbols on the car.

 

[jabobson]

That's a good idea to use night shades for the 3rd brake light, I'll have to try that soon because I hate how that looks on the trunk, the tail lights I can deal with but not that red strip across the trunk.

@CTt3P5 I actually just used gloss black Krylon Fusion plastic paint right over the reflectors to get that deep of a black, I didn't want any reflection. The reflectors took the paint really well and came out looking really good, and no cracks or chips so far!

 

[Sean2010]

did you tape off your bumper to paint the reflectors? or take them out....the latter is much more work...

 

[jabobson]

Yeah I took them out, I didn't want to chance anything. I ended up breaking one of the screws off on the passenger side reflector, but it still holds in there pretty well without the screw and I used outdoor strength 3m adhesive tape to hold it down where the screw would have been.