Painting You Dash

[Scream]

Nice write up mate, it helped me immensley. Thought i'd give it go and ended up with a reasonble finish. Made a couple of fundamental errors but i'm not to worried as i will buy the parts from the wreckers a little further down the track and do the job properly. Here's the results ....

First post here to, so be gentle with me. :thumbsup:

 

[50LTRv8]

There is nothing wrong with that for a first post

Good stuff :thumbsup:

 

[Fr3ak+--]

As said, the pic is probably just for comparison. I always forget the before pics.

that it is lol

 

[Dayvo]

just to add a few tips.

Clear coat works best when its warm (so im told) leave the piece you want to paint in the sun for a bit to warm up and also leave the can in the sun, if clear coat is cold it can turn white or not give you a gloss finish, i learnt this the hard way.

allow it to dry before attempting to reinstall, if you try to install you bits when the paint is only touch dry you will make a mess off it, leave it in the sun for a couple hours and let it harden, nothing worse than being impatiant and installing it too early and scratching it.

good write up

Yes , good write up . You can also sit the can in a bucket of hot water to give the clear more shine ,just don't forget to wipe it dry or you might end up with water drips on the newly painted dash .

 

[dale1389]

Will try this soon for sure, going to paint VR commodore dash white !

 

[Nevyn]

Will try this soon for sure, going to paint VR commodore dash white !

make sure u never loose ya sunglasses...I had the dash in me VC white and even on a overcast day it could be blinding at times....sunny days were a paint....but it did look good :thumbsup:

 

[dipdip]

top right up..
going to try and do mine now..
cheerss

 

[Razor-]

how much paint will i need to paint the part around the guage cluster and the part around the gear selector?
i want to do it silver but to get the paint i need to go out of town so i want to make sure i get enough,

how many mls of colour and how manyy mls of clear?

 

[vxcalais_01]

I tried cleaning up my power window controls. No issue with contact cleaner, but when i hit some hard sticky areas with throttle cleaner, the colour is coming off. So even the standard grey on the interior plastic of the VX 01 Calais etc is painted on ??? I know its a charcoal grey colour, how would i go about repainting it ?

 

[Poms308]

nice write up mate, ive got car paint left over from a respray a while ago and want to do my dash with it would it finish and look the same way my paint job would?