I actually saw an Element a few weeks ago, painted a custom kandy orange color, with all the plastic body peices painted to match, it actually made a HUGE difference. It looked nice like that. I also saw a forest green Jeep Liberty (another SUV with tons of plastic) with all the plastic body components painted to match, again, it looked real nice and clean like that. Go for it, it makes a huge difference. Speaking of which, no one likes the look of that plastic crap, so why don't they just paint it from the factory, it would look 100 times better.