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[Cameron P]

Buy plastic primer and then do a light first coat and then the next 2 coats abit heavier and you won't have an issue. Nice first attempt though! Especially on the top half

 

[Killr6]

yeah your putting your paint on very heavy there mate, just re-sand your dash, buy some plastic primer. prime it then paint it.

keep the spray can about 15-20cms away from the dash itself and just do very light coats, and be patient.

 

[booders9]

Yeaa, I'll go do it now....

a bit random, but were you advertising you wanting a new dash on facebook BUY SELL SWAP? I had my mate inbox you saying he had one. That was mine. Inbox if you are keen, you can have it real cheap if you are still wanting a new one.

 

[MrGodLyk]

Yeaa, I did use the plastic primer haha
Unfortunately that's just my spray painting skills coming into play haha

a bit random, but were you advertising you wanting a new dash on facebook BUY SELL SWAP? I had my mate inbox you saying he had one. That was mine. Inbox if you are keen, you can have it real cheap if you are still wanting a new one.

Yeaa I did, but then realised I've got no money until at least next week, too much **** to pay.
It's not just the dash fascia I need either, I need the plastic covering that goes over the gear shift as well cause I snapped a bit of the plastic when trying to take it off.

 

[VT_SS]

This is the worst part!! I snapped the plastic bit of the "P, R, N, D, 3, 2, 1" and need to get a new one of the gearstick surrounding.. Don't know what it's actually called.
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I like to see people have a go at doing things you have just gone a bit heavy on it. Best way is to just sand it back as best as you can then prime it and start to apply paint again like Parabola said light coats build it up slowly what sort of prep work did you do ?

 

[MrGodLyk]

I like to see people have a go at doing things you have just gone a bit heavy on it. Best way is to just sand it back as best as you can and start again what sort of prep work did you do ?

For prep all I did was apply the plastic primer, wait 10 minutes or so and then apply the colours, then after that I sprayed a clear coat...

 

[VT_SS]

When you sand it back this time and get it nice and smooth apply the primer and then give it a very light sand to make it smooth again but dont sand all the primer off. (for this you will need a finner grit sand paper or sanding sponge is better) From there just apply the paint in light coats and take your time should come up good.

 

[Cameron P]

Practice makes perfect mate keep trying you know you do a coat to heavy when it starts running so learn from that coat and go lighter

 

[MrGodLyk]

When you sand it back this time and get it nice and smooth apply the primer and then give it a very light sand to make it smooth again but dont sand all the primer off. (for this you will need a finner grit sand paper or sanding sponge is better) From there just apply the paint in light coats and take your time should come up good.

I've got 320 sandpaper and 400 sandpaper... Don't know if that helps at all haha.
I'll definitely be doing very light coats next time. But it's going to have to wait til next week I think, I have to pay too much stuff in the meantime... So for the moment I'm stuck with with the ugliest dash you'll ever see It's quite depressing haha.


Yeaa Cam, I'll definitely be doing alot more coats but about 10 times lighter I reckon haha.

 

[MrGodLyk]

Ok, I've done a couple of very minor things to the car in the last couple of days...

Let me know what you think.







They're cheap mods and look half decent so I thought why not