how hard is it to do it?
i wanna get it painted

 

I just replaced mine. Not hard at all, but it is tedious. There are the plastic clips on top and bottom (I promise you will destroy half of them getting them out so buy some beforehand). There are 2 screws and a bolt on the sides (you have to get under the car to get these and they can be a minor pain) and there are some plastic panels on the bottom of the car (they wrap around that air dam thingy in the front, removing these facilitates the removal of the before mentioned nuts and screws that holds the sides of the clip to the car). And there are some screws that hold the clip upa around the headlights. It's all just simple common sense. Take your time and if it doesn't come off easily after you've removed everything, then something else is holding it on because it should slide (fairly) easily off when you really have removed everything. Good Luck.