Time for an update after a productive weekend. As stated, the wheels got the black treatment because I don't clean my car much and don't want to look at brake dust covered silver wheels. And since I don't like chrome too much, I also did the grill with a stealth block from the back side. Blockage is done by using some coroplast that I caulked around the perimeter for adhesion. Time will tell how long it holds up so it may show up on a future update. For some reason the car had 2 different sized lug nuts on the front and rear wheels. No idea why this is but I went and bought 16 matching nuts and installed them. They are a little bigger than the factory ones but I think the chrome sticking out a little bit from the wheel looks good.
And the "stealth" block. Lower grill will be blocked some in the future but since this was off for plasti-dipping I thought that I should take advantage of the situation.
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-Mike
2007 Ford Focus ZX5 - 91k - SGII, pending upper and lower grill bocks - auto trans
1987 Monte Carlo SS - 5.3/4L80E swap - 13.67 @ 106
2007 Ford Focus Estate - 230k - 33mpg - Retired 4/2018
1995 Saturn SL2 - 256K miles - 44mpg - Retired 9/2014
Cost to Operate Spreadsheet for "The New Focus"