techniques for painting dashboards/vinyl

hopefully this can be for the final time...i have looked in many places but mostly what i come up with is where people are painting the hard plastic pieces instead of the whole dash/spongier places.

from what i have read you of course clean your material.

spray adhesion promoter

spray primer with flexing agent

spray base coat

spray clear

(wetsand when needed lol)

-------------
paint and body       
"semi-professional"

if you are painting the "spongier places." you need to first clean the surface.. paint thiner / wax remover.. then dishwashing soap.. then lightly wetsand.. Then do your adhesion promoter/primer/base/clear/paint..... Hope thats what you wanted

-------------
BlacK KnighT RacinG

I had a 82 S-10 pickup (ugly brown dash)

I cleaned it with 3M adhesive/wax remover.

Once that was done, I sprayed it black using black vinyl dye.

It took about 6 light coats, and I didnt use any adhesion promoter/primer.

Take a look at a local auto parts store for the dye.

(I would not recommend "Fusion" it didn't work as well as the dye.

-------------
itmdtr

bLACKKNIGHTPRES wrote:

---

if you are painting the "spongier places." you need to first clean the surface.. paint thiner / wax remover.. then dishwashing soap.. then lightly wetsand.. Then do your adhesion promoter/primer/base/clear/paint..... Hope thats what you wanted

---

you wouldnt use a flexing agent with the primer?

i also heard that they have flex "additive" (sorry about not knowing the names) that go into the paint and clear coat as well.  but is it only needed in the primer? :confused:

-------------
paint and body       
"semi-professional"

if you are gonna dye it SEM make a product called "sand free" that works really well. if you want to paint it to match the exterior, you can get any exterior paint to match, but when they mix it, have them take out the binders in it and add the resin they use to make the interior paint. this will let you shoot it like it is a dye, but will be the same color as the outside of the car.

it is never a bad idea to add flex additives to the paint, primer and clear. it wont ever hurt.

-------------

audiomechanic wrote:

---

if you are gonna dye it SEM make a product called "sand free" that works really well. if you want to paint it to match the exterior, you can get any exterior paint to match, but when they mix it, have them take out the binders in it and add the resin they use to make the interior paint. this will let you shoot it like it is a dye, but will be the same color as the outside of the car.

it is never a bad idea to add flex additives to the paint, primer and clear. it wont ever hurt.

---

whats the differnce in shooting paint and dye...the only dye that i have seen is in a rattle can

-------------
paint and body       
"semi-professional"

lol.. you mean aerosol can? lol ya, those dyes are the best to use for this home project.. If you use interior dyes/primers they will already have the flex agent in them.. Like the vinal/cloth dye has it

-------------
BlacK KnighT RacinG

oh no i dont want to use rattle can lol but i was stating that the only dye spray i have seen was in a can

-------------
paint and body       
"semi-professional"

the vinyl "dye" I used was in a spray can. Just make sure the paint is well mixed and not too cold, and the dash is really clean.

-------------
itmdtr

all of the makers of paint like ppg, dupont, sherwin williams all make interior paint. it is kinda like a dye, but a lot of time it needs a reducer like paint does. it can be mixed in any color and sprayed out of a normal paint gun.

-------------

Well i painted the interior of my 91accord and it is not an easy task. However, it is not hard but it is time consuming. The fist time i painted the interior i did it without removing most of the parts but that did not last to long because the paint cracked pretty easily. later i painted it again.  This time i sanded everything first then i cleaned with thinner, then i added the promoter, paint and clear coat. I also wet sanded the whole thing after it was dry. And i have not had a problem since. It took quite a while since i only had little time to work on it. However, as much time and patience you put on it you will get out at the end. I spend so much time because i wanted it to do it right.  

-------------
99civivtrbo