Paint my TRD skid plate?

Scored a TRD Pro Skid Plate for my Tacoma and it arrives this Friday. My question to you all:

1. Keep it stock aluminum with red letters?

2. Paint it black with Rustoleum Truck Bed Spray Paint and go with some color matched tufskin inserts

My truck is Silver Sky Metallic

 

Stock, then after it's scratched up then paint it.

 

I saw one that was Black on facebook that has never made me want a skid plate so much.

 

Join the bed liner club!

 

Yeah I like this more than the flat Matte Black. That red one above looks like kts gonna chip and flake the second I take it on the road lol.

I think I'm gonna pop the letters out, spray paint it and put the red back in

 

I like it, still think you should wait until you scratch the OEM one up first, but to each their own!

 

Bedliner and Tufskinz. I initially spray painted mine, and it got so chipped up from on-road use that it looked like hell. Even the bed liner will get ripped off when hitting the skid off-road, but at least on-road it holds up to debris.



Here was the paint job it had previously. I did this before Tufskinz was an option, so I had to paint and mask the TRD letters. Huge PITA!

 

They sell different color letters on eBay.

 

My husband MADE me spray all of it with the rustoleum rust preventative product and then I spray painted it black. I colored the insides of the RCI cutouts neon orange to match my accent color.

 

Damn bro, you're mall crawling pretty hard, huh?

 

That's all I plan on doing, no shame here lol

 

Nobody craws the mall harder than me!

 

those curbs can hit HARD

 

Go bold paint it gold and add the red letters.

 

You should bust his chops, because the skid plate is aluminum. No need for rust prevention.

 

My Skid Plate would get jealous if it saw your photo all cozy'd up next to the dog in front of the fire!

 

If you only knew of the unnecessary prep work he makes me do.......

 

Barbie pink. No balls.

 

Polish it, black letters.

Are you bold enough to be different?

 

Option 3:

Big hammer. Dent it now.
Never worry about it again.