I also ended up painting the rims, footrests and snorkel of my Force Gurkha.
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So over the weekends, I got time to work on a few items.
Scuff Plates – pending blackening treatment
So I found a company which provides spray paint for Stainless Steel and others which most of the furniture chaps use, it is hardened and has a good finish. Since I was unable to find the Black Scuff plates I thought this was the next best possible option and a good DIY weekend opportunity.
So I got in touch with the person over Whatsapp, informed him of the colour, and made payment once I got the product. I ordered the Spray gun hence making it a DIY project.
I ended up painting my Gukhra Xtreme RIMs, footrest and Snorkel too.
Lots of things to De-Chrome after the minor ones, planning on headlamps too. The Films don’t give the same depth as the headlamp chrome de-chromes and resealed headlamp. Hopefully, Tata brings out Blacked Headlamps in some dark editions after the Dark Red got the Black T Logo including on the Horn Pad.
My front camera needs to be replaced it has very low resolution, and displays in close to Greyscale
So I had a 4 camera unit lying around for my Gurkha Xtreme (long list of DIY when will it see the Light of day is unknown) so tested that camera and it worked, well in colour. Eventually, then I got one HD camera from the market but it did not display well, later I learned that the plug-and-play unit connected to OEM Headunit Canbus is only configured for SD and the HD one needs to be selected via Android HU. Therefore, went back and got the SD variant camera and now it solves the purpose.
Also, I and even the service centre guys were unable to tell how to turn off the radio. But now I found out how to Switch Off Audio of media Player / radio / USB. I just need to click on the switch off button. It will only Switch off the Headunit Audio, but not other functions, like AC, Air Filter, etc and all those can still be used. Super like! And the standby screen is a clock. Super super like!
So now I have all other functions available via Headunit even when I need peace. Probably a basic function, but I was unable to find how to switch off the Radio.
Keyword: Working on my Tata Safari: Blacked out scuff plates & new front camera