I have silver chequer plate on my 110 bonnet and wing tops and it looks OK. I need to get some for the rear quarters as there is some damage and obviously chequer plate is the easy fix here.

However, I'm really not keen on silver chequer plate on the sides of a vehicle, and would much rather fit black. The vehicle is a 110SW in Caledonian Blue, and at some point I was going to go for a black roof (the blue is a respray and the roof isn't great) and black arches etc and I want it all to match. Obviously I'd change the bonnet and wing tops for black chequer plate too at the same time if I go down this route.

So, my simple question, does the black chequerplate last, or does it scratch through to the ally really easily? Any recommended suppliers for better quality kit?

Oh, and although I do the odd green lane, 95% of driving is on road or in fields, so we can sacrifice a bit of ultimate off road practicality for looks...

Thanks

If your worried get it Line-Ex'd or use some Raptor Upol. In black leaves a near indestructible near unscratchable textured finish

I drive mine through everything and I don't recall seeing any silver on ny black chequer

Cheers guys, I reckon that's the way forward then!

Had a slight rethink. I reckon black chequer looks better with black wheels, mine are silver Boosts and it seems daft spending out all that money on replacing the existing silver stuff with black. Paddock also do some nice rear quarter guards that are much smaller and more subtle than the Britpart ones, so I've ordered those plus some matching sills. Should look good, and if I'm honest probably better than black CP, which really suits a lighter colour (white, yellow) or modern grey metallic better than what is essentially navy blue. Thanks for the tips anyway!

Black anodising not paint...

I painted my bonnet chequer black a while ago, it's chunking off already. Mind, I didn't etch prime it, just used red oxide, which is wrong. Gonna re-do it with etch as it works so well.

I used Upol Acid 8 Etch primer on my Chq plates, then matt black top coats.
3 years ago, no flakes so far!