How to: Dye Plastics/Take apart overhead console

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Timmy

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ok. first, you don't wanna dye your lights, so you gotta take them out.

take a razor blade knife or something sharp and cut the mushroom tops (circled in red) between the black and the top.

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then do the same thing for the pocket, again, circled in red in the above picture.

those will just pop out and.

go into the kitchen, shop, etc. and find a bottle of dawn dish detergent.
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wash it really good and then dry it.

take it outside and use your dye. i chose the duplicolor for now.
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the color i chose is charcoal.

i put a couple of light coats and a couple of heavy coats after that and it turned out really good.

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this works with any plastics and matches the 03+ charcoal.

to reassemble, you can use some SMALL screws with washers
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Hmmmm, reminds me of an episode of Unique Whips.

Remy used rattle cans to paint an entire dash. IIRC, it started to flake almost immediately.

Im not typing that will be the case with your stuff.
 
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i only did the OH console and everything on the headliner. it's been in my truck for 3 months and all is fine.

actually, i have an escalade console that i dyed and i tested the dye with my key and it didn't scrape off after 2 months.
 

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Hmmmm, reminds me of an episode of Unique Whips.

Remy used rattle cans to paint an entire dash. IIRC, it started to flake almost immediately.

Im not typing that will be the case with your stuff.

was that the blue escalade?
 

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how did you get that out. I need to remove mine to run a new CB antenna wire. I want to move my CB up there.
 
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one screw in the back (towards the windshield) and then two clips in the front.
 
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