how do you restore your aluminum grille trim

Well maybe now is the time to ad spectrachrome to your bag o tricks so to speak. You can do dash bezels, and all sorts of plastics with it, repair and resilver pitted potmetal parts. Not sure how well it holds up to heat and fuel, but maybe engine parts too. They have several color tints you add to the clear so it looks like.anodizing.

When my buddy was doing this, there wasnt much of a call for it in abilene tx or ths surrounding areas, but he did several potmetal pieces, and media blasted em first to strip them and get all of the corrosion out of the pits. Then you basically bodywork the part, and put their base primer material on prior to silvering and clearcoat. No curing ovens necessary, but you need a paint booth and no dust at all.

i think when your done the deionized water and silver nitrate you send back for a credit, and they seperate out the leftover silvering. This makes it maybe not better than chrome in some aspects, but it doesnt pit like chrome, and is a little more environmentally.friendly.