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Have a 2018 Everest 3.2 and love everything about it.  It is a much smoother and quieter ride than my Toyota 3.0 truck.

Find a Toyota and Ford dealer that will let you test drive them and then decide which one you like best. 

My Vigo door mirrors and aftermarket grill stuff are real chrome plate on plastic....
https://www.sharrettsplating.com/blog/what-do-you-know-about-plating-on-plastics/
 

Obviously not sleeping, playing with his phone while laying on the front of the moving taxi....

http://www.tanabe.co.th/en/plating.php
http://www.thai-silvec.com/archives/549
http://www.bvkplating.com/company.html
https://www.facebook.com/pg/Nia-Thang-Piew-Seng-Chrome-Plating-Manufacturer-757299987667961/about/
Memory serves - it is the last one
 

Where in LOS are you ? I have a guy in CNX who sends my parts to BKK for triple chrome plating. Nice work. No issues in a long time.
Don't know if they do plastic or not.

sstuff,
 
What is the material to be painted? I found a can of BOSNY Chrome paint in a local hardware store. I painted some ubiquitous blue pipe to look like chrome. With one coat over primer it is OK. Probably needed two coats but...
 

 
Find a can and test.

The component which gives a silver or chromium plate appearance in paint is usually aluminium flake. Appearance varies according to how many accountants were involved in specifying the formulation.
The professional way to get the best appearance is to take the part to a chromium plating shop. Google is your friend.

Whether metal, plastic or alloy it can be chrome plated...That is the perfection way....If you are OK with a high gloss silver look then go for paint...

It's actually not for chrome repair. The current grille is black and I want to chrome the frame of it.

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I used it on a valve cover and the effect was pretty good, certainly good enough for me to be happy to leave it on.  Unfortunately, I thought that clear-coating it with an aerosol would be a good idea but the two were not compatible and the "chrome" turned to grey.  Wouldn't have happened without the clear coat  and the quality of "chrome" paint now may be better that it was then.

The best option for me would be to find a shop that does one-off plating. I'm sure there must be some around but hard to find.

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"Chrome" paint is available in aerosols, I bought some from Tesco some time ago but I don't know whether they still stock it, might be worth a look.

Never had any luck with chrome paint.
If you want it shiny, check out the guys that do wrap. Least it won't come off easily.
Can even have shiny in different colors

Caswell do kits, they are on Amazon for delivery to Thailand. But I reckon stuff will be available in LOS..
As far as I am aware you cannot do the proper chroming procedure on large items, they first remove all the original chrome and start from scratch, well that's how it was when l got stuff done way back
I liked this video of another brand for small parts...
 
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The trim around the front grille

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Does anyone know of any place in Thailand that sells paint (or other products) that looks like chrome when dry? Or possibly a shop that does one-off chrome plating?

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Just curious, since your experience with dry rot is the same as mine: does your car often sit around without driving it? I have heard that this can hasten dry rot.

That's my experience with OEM Michelins. They started to show cracking from dry rot at three years and six months later they are hardened and cracked enough to be dangerous. At least 50% tread left as well.
 
I need to replace them next week and I am seriously considering something other than Michelin.

Tires with the DOT stamp  (most reputable brands) expire 6 years after the date of manufacturing, regardless of the mileage.  I have found that I get an average of 3 years out of a new set of tires here because they start cracking and the rubber hardens losing grip.  I have never used more than 50% of the tread on tires here before they harden and crack.  Of course when I change to new tires, the sales are always happy to keep my old set  (more than likely to sell to someone looking for cheap tires).

On 3/24/2018 at 7:08 AM, rooster59 said:

Damrongsak said police suspected the driver did not use a low gear during the six-kilometre-long downhill road section but kept tapping on the air brake pedal for control until the system was out of air. 

Obviously the Police and crash investigators are not aware how air brake systems work.  If the system runs out of air, the vehicle's brakes will engage bringing it to a stop, not the opposite.  Blind leading the blind. 

Clearing land for another condo. 

I've recently started using Discover Bank for this and have been able to transfer funds to Thailand quite easily and quickly.  All activity is done online but you are required to make a phone call to verify the transfer after uploading the form to their website. Pretty painless and very helpful staff. 

The only way to keep Thai drivers in the proper lanes is to construct solid concrete walls between the lanes. Solid lines and cones are useless, as seen in this video.

Most horror stories are in the provinces where a couple of tradesmen return to their village and purport to be a contractor.

Give it time. 
 
I had a kitchen extension built.  It was a matter of a few weeks before it started pulling away from the house, even though I'd paid extra for what was supposed to be over-the-top piling.  There's now a 1 1/2 cm gap from ceiling to floor on one side.
 
In this moobaan, almost every house has had at least one extension.  There's only one that hasn't pulled away from the house, and that was a garage extension that pulled the front of the house off as it subsided.

Location?