paint or buy new interior plastics
08-14-2012, 06:30 PM
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paint or buy new interior plastics I'm wanting to change my tan interior to ebony (black) and am wondering what is the best way to go about doing it. I want the panals to match the existing black panals that the car has (dash, pillars, headliner and other misc parts) NOT trying to go for the race car rattle can red panals! Lol shooting for the closest OEM look as possible.
So my question is do I sand down the panals and paint them with a matte black and if so how'd yours turn out?
Or start looking for "parting out" posts and piece together the whole car slowly?
Saving money is great but if painting panals wont look good or just plain obvious that it was done then ill stoop down and shell out the cash.
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So my question is do I sand down the panals and paint them with a matte black and if so how'd yours turn out?
Or start looking for "parting out" posts and piece together the whole car slowly?
Saving money is great but if painting panals wont look good or just plain obvious that it was done then ill stoop down and shell out the cash.
Post pics if possible
08-14-2012, 08:11 PM
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painting interior pieces usually doesn't work too well in my experience, although I did some of my trim pieces in black with base/clear polyurethane and it came out pretty good. I have seen dyes that work pretty good, though. I used to have a corvette and I once got a spray on dye to return the faded plactic pieces back to original color. Eastwood company might have something that works. If you use the right product and do it right it can work and look good. I wouldn't use spray can, though. Just my thoughts on it.
08-15-2012, 03:54 PM
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wrapping something with curves will leave you with suicide thoughts half way through the project... I've been doing a lot of wrapping lately, I'd never even consider doing the entire interior.
08-16-2012, 04:00 PM
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Wrap Hey i have a 2001 WS6 and this girl im good friends with her mom and dad do custom interiors for cars and there re-doing all my interior to Ebony from Tan and the plastic on the door panels there wrapping in black leather. and the inserts are going to be charcoal swede. All the back plastics i found on here for next to nothing that were in really good shape. So we will see how it looks when its done. I'll post pics when i can.
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Hey i have a 2001 WS6 and this girl im good friends with her mom and dad do custom interiors for cars and there re-doing all my interior to Ebony from Tan and the plastic on the door panels there wrapping in black leather. and the inserts are going to be charcoal swede. All the back plastics i found on here for next to nothing that were in really good shape. So we will see how it looks when its done. I'll post pics when i can.
