Painting Interior Trim - recipe for disaster or feasible?

[BERGS2]

I've finally lost my tolerence of the hideous plastic wood trim in the Pathfinder.

Currently contemplating:
1) getting Silver coloured from a breakers/fleabay like this
2) spraying with polycarbonate silver paint, then a good few coats of lacquer.

has anyone tried spraying trim before?

I'm not looking for a concourse finish - just something that looks reasonable and isn't plastic fake wood!

apologies for the crapola pictures!!

any advice gladly recieved,

BERGS

[Brigand]

Perfectly feasable, and as its already a smooth surface you should get a very good finish.

A few times I've painted over the wood effect trim like that in cars, once you've taken the trim out just rough it up with a very light sandpaper to give the paint a key, wipe it down with white spirit or similar, primer it, spray your choice of colour on, then lacquer it.

Take your time and it'll come up great with some rattle cans. It's all about the practice.

Go for it!

[dtrump]

paint it

Done it before plenty of times and always looks totally fine. Just dont rush it

[MagnaJeep]

Wrapping the trim in 3M Dinoc?
There should be many different colours to choose from.

I don't think painted trim will last for long, remembering the silver trim finish of Chrysler or
the soft, rubber-like paint used in VW or Ford around ten years ago.

[PumpkinSteve]

MagnaJeep said:

I don't think painted trim will last for long, remembering the silver trim finish of Chrysler or
the soft, rubber-like paint used in VW or Ford around ten years ago.

They still use painted trim in loads of cars now e.g. in brand new Fords. The new Fiesta is full of it, they just whack loads of lacquer over the top.

[Silverbullet767]

Another vote for 3M dinoc.

I done my 'shot to hell with scratches' metal trim with carbon fibre wrap, and they look brand new.

Just don't go overboard with the stuff. It's very tempting!

[BERGS2]

Silverbullet767 said:

Another vote for 3M dinoc.

I done my 'shot to hell with scratches' metal trim with carbon fibre wrap, and they look brand new.

Just don't go overboard with the stuff. It's very tempting!

sounds interesting - anyone got a linky?

might be a bit for these bits (again - sorry crap pic)

[BERGS2]

& does it do curves?

[Arun_D]

How about that Plastidip stuff? The spray-on coating that you can peel off when you want to? never used it myself, but have read peoples' posts raving on about the stuff, mostly using it for quick temporary wheel colour changes.

[MrBrightSi]

http://williamsclio.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?418...

someone did their door pockets on the williams, admitedly it was washed out grey, to a light grey anyway, so i dont know how some gash wood plastic would handle it.

[Dr Doofenshmirtz]

BERGS2 said:

& does it do curves?

Yes, you can go round curves with Vinyl - but you need to gently heat it with a hairdryer.
It'll be a lot better than paint! and won't chip off, and if it looks naff you can just peel it off and start again.

eBay or your local signwriter are your friends for getting Vinyl.

[Jumpy Guy]

All sounds interesting - does anyone have any pics of a completed job, either painted or with the vinyl cover?

[BERGS2]

Oh dear - i feel myself ready to carbon wrap the trim of the two tonne pathfinder

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/3M-Di-Noc-Carbon-Fibre-V...

Quick question - with regards to the trim itself - does this just pop off or are there special removal tools needed?

[Dr Doofenshmirtz]

The carbon fibre effect stuff can very difficult to work with. It doesn't tend to stretch as well as normal vinyl.
The trim on the doors is probably screwed on from the other side, so you'll have to remove the door panel.

[MagnaJeep]

Here is an example what could be done with some skill and experience:

http://www.zxforums.com/forums/zx-9r-forum/49531-d...

[Mastodon2]

I helped my dad respray the worn plastic trim around the centre console in his old Impreza - a can on gun metal grey spray paint from Halfords was as close as identical match to the original colour. We just popped the lot off, sprayed it evenly (not to close, not too far, moving the can at a moderate and steady pace to prevent clumping etc) etc. It looked good after a few coats, then it got a few lacquer coats and that was it.

Took an afternoon, but that includes the drying times. Getting the trim out is the hard part - it might not yield as easily as the Imprezas did, and if you are cack-handed you risk damaging it as you pull it out.

Personally, I'd just leave the wood trim in there, it looks good, if you go for silver you will probably think "god this is boring, wish I'd left the wood-effect as it was".

[BERGS2]

MagnaJeep said:

Here is an example what could be done with some skill and experience:

http://www.zxforums.com/forums/zx-9r-forum/49531-d...

& here is an example of what could be done with zero skill and no experience.....

suffice to say it's been peeled off now.

[David87]

A bloke on the Focus RS forum I go on 'dips' stuff and it comes out really well. Seems to be available in loads of different patterns / colours. PM me for the website address - not sure if I can post it on here!

[Mykap]

Did the dash in the 5.0

I wanted a similar colour to the existing scheme so went with graphite and gloss black 3M Di-Noc Carbon Fibre. A Samples can be got from suppliers on ebay - this helped decide which colour to use

Application of the 3m DiNoc is easy peasy. Just cut roughly to shape and trim then heat and stretch to fit. However for serious curves such as the handbrake recess on mine an adhesion promoter is a must. If you don't like the results or you get bored with it you can always be pull it off to revert to the standard trim with no damage to original part.

I think the result was worth the effort - total time 2 hours.

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