painted my dash...
 

i was bored today so i decided to paint my dash.
looks good? sorry about the picture quality, but i only had my PDA to take pics.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...h/DSC00336.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...h/DSC00335.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...h/DSC00334.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...h/DSC00333.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...h/DSC00332.jpg
door handles will be painted next week.

sweet dood, what kinda paint you use?

krylon white primer, krylon silver paint, and krylon clear acrylic for the clear coat.

did you remove the whole dash and ac vent pieces or did you just mask off the surrounding areas?

im sure he removed it
who would paint inside their car....overspray would get everywhere....

yeah, i removed EVERYTHING. the only thing i masked off was the pocket of the dash. i didn't wanna try and paint the inside of it and get the paint running.

looks nice. How long did it take

like 2 1/2 hours including taking everything apart and putting it back together.

wow...i let mine dry over night. in the pics ur dash looks white.
can you take closer shots of em...i wanna see what the clear coat looks like.
thanks

is it smooth like glass or would you recommend either buying or renting a spray gun?

looks good.. welcome to the painted dash club :)

what about the piece around the cluster?

Vinyl dye works good too, i sprayed mine and it really smooth and never peel or cracked.

looks good man :tup: i was thinking about painting mine silver too, when i had that alpine 7893.

take some better pics tho, haha it does look white

Lokks tight. Nice addition!

i'll try and get some better pictures tomorow with the light hitting it. i think the only reason it look white is because its a light silver and my pda doesn't take the best pics in the world, but if you were to see it in person you wouldn't mistake it for being white.
the only reason i used the clear coat is to add a little protection from minor scratches. you can see it shine a little when the light hits it, but i really just wanted it to help protect the paint.

Those pics make me wIsh I would have painted my dash instead of buying a glue on kit

didn't wanna do because i think it makes everything look uneven. just a personal prefrence i guess...

lol
i did it because 1. it was cheaper and 2. you don't have those huge black gaps between areas.

how did you take them off?

looks good dude!i had mine painted in the same color as my car.

http://users.pandora.be/seriousspace/dashboard.jpg

^looks good. i'm thinking about getting it repainted as the color of of my car also when i get my grill and eyelids painted, but i have to see how much more they would charge me. if its not much i'm gonna do it.

http://www.7thgencivic.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=197986

Whose willing to trade trims with me? Everything painted silver on the dash: Two vents, silver cover around the bezel, and the trim where the HU goes, all for your stock trims. This is posted in the SoCal section... Don't know how we would trade if we're in different parts of the coutry... maybe you guys have better ideas... :rofl:

http://www.7thgencivic.com/memberrid...89IMG_0341.jpg

No kidding... :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Nice job with the paint... Would like to see it in more detail though.

now that i like, i dunno about just the plain white though

they look good nice job guyz

i primed mine with glass resin painted ssm and clear coat with glass resin
looks sweet

for the vents...they just pop off by using a screw driver...but use a clothe to put around the head. then...just unscrew the pieces of the vent.
for the console...take out the little sqare's next to your cigarette lighter plug and then look in side...you should see two bolts. unsrew those and a little bit of pushing here and a little bit up tugging there...you've got it out. then just unplug and unscrew everything.

clean!

here is another pic of my paint job!

http://users.pandora.be/seriousspace/interieur01.jpg
http://users.pandora.be/seriousspace/interieur02.jpg

grtz

I seen the title of this thread and laughed kinda hard... I really didn't know what to expect but man I feel dumb now! that looks really really good.