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kjweston

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Anyone ever try and paint maybe door panels? dash pieces? center console? I don't like the beige-ish interior i have. i plan on getting black seats or seat covers, but i also want to paint the rest.. any thoughts? paints that might work best?
 

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Yeah the Duplicolor interior paint works great! I used that on a faded dash in my S10 i used to have, it was badly sun faded on top, whitish in places, etc.

Pulled it and wiped it down with some prep-solv, thats a brand name i think as it comes in a can with that name on it, its basically acetone like they wipe stuff down with before painting at a body shop. You just have to be CAREFUL with the plastic though because some plastic will melt with acetone.

They make another surface prep specifically for plastic, usually you can find it in a spray can right by the Duplicolor Vinyl and Fabric paint. It works great, bonds and doesn't peel. I was skeptical so i painted a small end panel of the dash first and after it dried you couldn't scrape the stuff off, it like melts into the surface and really bonds to it, its not like a paint, its more like a spray dye if that makes sense.

Stuff stinks like hell though, well ventilated area and use a mask. The worst part of the job is just removing stuff to spray it. I've done dashes, steering wheels, door panels, etc.
 

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Oh if you have fabric seats you can actually spray dye them too, did that to a set of brown bucket seats, sprayed them with duplicolor black to match the trucks interior and swapped out the bench seat.

Just realize that unless you leave all the parts sit in your garage and air for a week they are going to stink like hell for a few days.
 

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Be careful with the acetone. It is really tough on plastics. It will melt most of them. Its about the equivalent of lacquer paint thinner. Like kbOnly said, Prep-Sol (or equivalent) is great. It is actually a grease and wax remover.
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Over on LOST I remember CD03KJ (Chris) has some detailed write ups on what he did to basically all of his interior. I believe it was all made black, cloth, plastic, carpet...maybe I have a revisionist memory but I think so. Might look around for the threads or ask him what to do.
 

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Over on LOST I remember CD03KJ (Chris) has some detailed write ups on what he did to basically all of his interior. I believe it was all made black, cloth, plastic, carpet...maybe I have a revisionist memory but I think so. Might look around for the threads or ask him what to do.



I can't find him.. sounds like exactly what i need though. :confused:
 

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