the black letters on the back look great, nice work. I'm definitely going to do that. just to be 100% sure, the Toyota symbol and "4RUNNER" are all on with adhesive, correct?

yes both have adhesive...the emblem has two "studs" at each end that go into holes in the molding so it will leak if its not covered..."4runner" is all adhesive

thanks man. and do you think they will come off easy enough with enough heat? I know you scratched that plastic up, but was it just because you were impatient?

i would think if you used enough heat most of it would come off...i was very impatient when i removed mine...i could be wrong by saying this but i think the emblems being stuck to plastic is the biggest problem..let me know if you were able to remove all the adhesive completley....the good thing is that you cant really mess anything up...all you have to do is stick them back on with 3m double sided tape

I didn't take apart the doors because I'm not very mechanically inclined and I probably would have accidentally scratched something if I would have attempted to paint them this way.

Thanks! I do not have the lock/unlock function on my doors (I thought that was Limited editions only). But if you were to paint them, I think it would affect the sensors as it seems they are touch activated instead of buttons.

not very tough in the first 7 days while the paint is curing. i found out the hard way with my front toyo logo - it now has some flecks of paint missing and you can see the chrome in some small spots.

I am currently past 1.5 wks with the handle painting and they are still going strong so far!

I did my front and rear emblems - instead of using flat black I found a krylon fusion that matched my Gray and is textured. Kinda different, but I like the look.

I'll post pictures of the back once I'm finished fixing what I f-ed up...word to those thinking of tackling the back - don't use goo gone! It literally ate through the plastic and now it looks like ish.

that emblem looks good. you doing the back in the same paint?

how much goo gone did you use on the back? I used a little on a rag and it didn't damage anything.

This may be off-topic, but does anyone know which running boards these are or where to find them?

TIA

I did my grill last week, here is a pic....

Yeah I did the rear emblems in the same paint -- Maybe I used too much goo gone...I had a hell of time getting all of the adhesive off, even being patient.

were you trying to heat the adhesive up before getting it off? I heated it up to get the letters off. Once they were all off I started to peel the adhesive off. At first I started heating it up again, wrong move. The adhesive peels off much easier from the plastic if it's cool. Here is a before and after:

Thanks for the walk though. I will do this with my own truck over the summer.

Finished the backs...Had to take off the rear garnish to fix the goo-gone damage...big thanks to Harper for the advice on getting it off and Nashman's TSM getting me through it!

^ looks real good, i love that color choice. what did you use to reattach?

What did you use to reattach yours?

I haven't done this yet and don't know if I will. I ghetto rattle-can painted my old emblems for my Honda Accord and the paint never stuck well after the first few years.