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Chrome delete: black out the brightwork, keep the paint

A chrome delete wraps the chrome trim on your car in black or colour-matched film. Window surrounds, grille, badges, mirror caps, door handles, roof rails, the lot. It's the highest-impact change you can make to a modern car for the least money, it's reversible, and at our Caterham unit it's usually done in a day.

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Range Rover colour change wrap

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What it involves

Film choice for chrome delete

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Gloss black is the classic and matches gloss black paint details on most cars. Satin black suits satin-wrapped cars and looks slightly softer on a factory-paint car. We can also colour-match trim to the body colour so it disappears. All of it is 3M or Avery cast film that handles the tight curves on window trim without lifting.

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Options

What gets de-chromed

Most people start with window trim and grille. On a lot of cars that's 80 per cent of the visual change. Badges and handles finish it off.

Window surrounds and belt-line trim [01]
Close-up of a wrapped door handle recess
Window surrounds and belt-line trim

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Front grille surround and slats [02]
Porsche with paint protection film fitted
Front grille surround and slats

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Badges and lettering [03]
Range Rover colour change wrap
Badges and lettering

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Mirror caps [04]
BMW camouflage printed wrap
Mirror caps

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Door handles and lower trim strips [05]
BMW satin colour change wrap
Door handles and lower trim strips

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Roof rails and rack bars [06]
BMW i8 colour change wrap
Roof rails and rack bars

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Rear diffuser and exhaust surrounds [07]
Nissan GT-R wrap
Rear diffuser and exhaust surrounds

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Fog light surrounds [08]
Wrap Cube fitters at work in the Caterham unit
Fog light surrounds

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Which job

What to know before you decide

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Why chrome delete is fiddly and why it matters.

Window trim is narrow, curved in two directions, and the edges are visible from a foot away. Film has to be cut clean and tucked, not trimmed against the glass with a blade (we don't cut on glass). Grilles are removed where possible rather than wrapped in place. This is precision work and it's why a proper chrome delete takes a day rather than an hour, and why a cheap one starts peeling at the corners within a season.

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Fitter applying vinyl by hand

Chrome delete with a colour change.

Plenty of colour change customers add a chrome delete to finish the look, and plenty of chrome delete customers come back a year later for the full wrap. If you're thinking about both, doing them together saves a little on preparation.

Colour change
BMW satin colour change wrap

What can't be de-chromed with film.

Textured plastic trim (film won't bond to a rough surface), pitted or flaking chrome (film follows the pits and can pull the chrome), and trim that gets hot, such as exhaust tips. For those we'll suggest a painted or replacement option rather than film.

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Close-up of a wrapped door handle recess

Popular cars for chrome delete.

BMW (3, 4, 5 Series and X models), Mercedes (C, E, GLC), Audi (A4, A6, Q5, Q7), Range Rover and Discovery, Tesla Model 3 and Y, Volkswagen Golf and Tiguan, and most of the modern Volvo range. If your car has a chrome window surround, it's a candidate.

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Range Rover colour change wrap
How it runs

How we do a chrome delete

{01} A plan

Which trim, which finish, and whether the grille and badges come off or get wrapped in place. On most cars the badges come off and go back on over the film; on some, they're bonded and we wrap round.

{02} Preparation

Wash, decontaminate, and clean the trim itself, which on older cars can carry years of polish residue in the seams.

{03} Fitting

Each piece of trim wrapped individually with edges tucked, not trimmed against paint or glass. Compound curves on window surrounds are heated and worked slowly. The grille is done off the car where it's removable.

{04} Post-heat and check

Every edge post-heated so the film's memory is set to the new shape. Then checked in daylight, because a chrome delete lives or dies on its edges.

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Chrome delete on a lease car

Chrome delete on a lease car

A chrome delete is the modification lessors are most relaxed about, because it's film on trim and it comes off in an hour. Get written permission anyway, keep the email, and budget for removal before the car goes back. If you're on a two- or three-year lease it's worth doing in month one: you get the look for the whole term for a modest price.

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Worth knowing before you book

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Looking after it

Window trim gets hit by wiper spray, brush car washes and enthusiastic detailers with a pressure lance.

Hand wash or touchless, keep the lance a sensible distance from edges, and use satin-specific products on satin trim so it doesn't patch.
Post-heated edges hold; abused edges don't.
It's in the care sheet.
Before you book

Questions people ask before they call

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Chrome delete

The car and which bits of chrome you want gone. We'll come back with a fixed price and a day you can have it done.

Paint protection film on a Blacklane Mercedes
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