Painting Dashboard.

[blackcoffee]

Painting the Dashboard tomorrow.

Gonna go alittle custom, copying this guys setup.
He used duplicolor metalflake red, and black on some parts.
http://tharf.com/albums/summer09/P8070234.jpg
http://tharf.com/albums/summer09/P8070007.jpg
http://tharf.com/albums/summer09/P8130120.jpg
http://tharf.com/albums/summer09/P8180096.jpg
http://tharf.com/albums/summer09/P8070235.jpg
How should I go about prepping this plastic?

[puckhead]

Doesnt look bad at all! Tagged for the outcome. And I htink someone here did this a while back cant remember who though

[blackcoffee]

I know man! That guys truck is over at GMT400 trucks forum its thARF's truck. Its overall a REALLY sweet custom truck, 4L65E FLT / 6.0L LQ4 Whipple SC. Its full of goodies.

Any ideas for prepping the dashboard? What kind of sandpaper, or should I just wash it real good? I don't want to ruin the texture.

[puckhead]

Shit, I cant remember what the thread said. I dont know as if you have to sand it. wash it real good and... I dont know the rest lol. They used a plastic bonding paint. Dont know if they primered. I will see if I can find it

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Heres some reading material! Hope it helps. Sounds like a good wash, primer, paint, clear. maybe a sand if your good at it

http://www.tahoeyukonforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11144&highlight=interior+paint

http://www.tahoeyukonforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=12298&highlight=interior+paint

http://www.tahoeyukonforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=12141&highlight=interior+paint

[blackcoffee]

Thanks man! Pics tomorrow. Also repainting my grille glossy black and then clear coat instead of just flat black.

[puckhead]

Cant wait for the pics! Might give me somethign to do this summer, just dont know what color I would go with. Blue to match my lights maybe?

[blackcoffee]

This is all I've got so far. I used White Krylon Plastic Paint as my primer, duplicolor metalflake red as my paint, and krylon clear coat.

I'm letting it dry, then I'm gonna cover the dash, and just paint the air vents in black.
I should be finished tonight with some pictures.

It came out looking a lot darker then I thought it would be, maybe it will get lighter. And it could be that I did it in the shade. It was 90 degrees outside today in florida so I didn't want to sweat to death.

http://i41.tinypic.com/35daq2f.jpg

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Is there a way to take out the air vents?

[puckhead]

Looks good! Really like the red! Definitely gonna be my project this summer. I wonder how well its gonna hold up

[blackcoffee]

Thanks man, its all done now. Just sitting out to dry. I'm gonna wait a couple weeks and see how it holds up. If it holds up, I'm gonna paint the rest of the dashboard in this color theme.

[puckhead]

I wonder how washing it would work. You think a McGuires wipe would mess up the paint at all?

[blackcoffee]

Here's what I've done as a test, the paint hadn't even dried for more then an hour. I took some 800 grit sandpaper, I know really fine. the red paint that I had sprayed on my air vents I was gonna redo them in black, which was stupid because they didn't come out to great. So i started rubbing and rubbing and rubbing and the paint just blemished but it never came off. So it seems to work good. Then I took some 200 grit and shit got ugly ha.

So all in all I think it should hold up for awhile. If it starts flaking and stuff I'm just gonna buy a new one because the plastic is 13 years old and it feels brittle.

[Brick]

keep us updated man, really been thinking about doing mine as the stock paint is chipping at this point. really just concerned about the durability and how it holds up

[blackcoffee]

Heres how it came out, Wish I had a better camera.

http://i42.tinypic.com/o09sph.jpg
http://i40.tinypic.com/2chxhjs.jpg

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I thought it would come out looking really ricer, but it actually looks pretty good.
It really makes the double din look a lot more in its place.

[Spencer2009]

Looks good man almost makes me wanna do mine but not till i get me a spaare one incase i dont like it.

[blackcoffee]

Thanks man. Yeah I'll see how well it holds up, I think I'm gonna go in with a paint brush and touch it up in a couple places.

[puckhead]

Looks real nice! You gonna do anything else in the truck?

[blackcoffee]

Thanks man. Yeah I'm really busy right now though, the week after next the new tranny / floor shifters going in, and I have to remount the center console elsewhere and lengthen the wires. So I'll probably finish the dashboard paint wise but I'm gonna leave stuff alone till I can get everything situated where its gonna be, I did the HID lights today aswell. I need to remount my rear bench seat and get seat covers for that and the front seats. The spare tire holder is going back in then I'm gonna put some some polyvinyl in the cargo area. Then I'll be broke ha.

[puckhead]

hahaha, yeah im already broke so i hear ya. you gonna paint any more interior pieces?

[txhoescrapin]

Looks good. Mine has been painted for month or 2 and holding up real well. Did you sand the dash and the primer?

[blackcoffee]

Oh ok good. Nope and Nope haha. I put so much clear on it shouldn't matter. I really don't care right now it was sort of a rushed project one day when I was bored ha. I'll focus on my interior more when I'm done mechanically.

[txhoescrapin]

Oh ok good. Nope and Nope haha. I put so much clear on it shouldn't matter. I really don't care right now it was sort of a rushed project one day when I was bored ha. I'll focus on my interior more when I'm done mechanically.


The amount of clear doesn't really effect the paint sticking to the plastic. Why does nobody want to do the prep work when painting?

[Mild]

when i did my dash, one coat of krylon fusion. it holds up fine except for the places where my knees hit.

never thought of using it as a primer though, pretty clean idea.

[imtbear69]

Heck I did the prep, but mine is a show truck so i had to do up right, all though i do have to admit it is time consuming if your going to sand it all down to make it smooth, if you want to keep the texture then just do a good cleaning on it and you should have no probs with flaking as long as it dosent get abused.
Here are a few pics of mine

[blackcoffee]

I did prep it. I washed the crap out of it, and primed it very well with the krylon plastic paint. I wanted to retain the original texture so I didn't sand it. I'm not a horrible painter. I'm actually decent at it.

[puckhead]

Yeah I would want to save the texture too. Any body using a adhesion/flex promoter like bullydog or anything?

[txhoescrapin]

You dont sand the texture away, and never said you weren't a good painter. Looks good, sorry for the hijacck.

[puckhead]

I guess I dont fully understand the priming/cleaning process then lol. How does it not take away the texture when you sand?

[grnrpr68]

looks good

[txhoescrapin]

I guess I dont fully understand the priming/cleaning process then lol. How does it not take away the texture when you sand?

You can send the dash just to scuff up the surface. You would have to use like 100 grit and sand the shit out of it to take texture away.