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Painting interior plastic trim - talk to me please

Post by wurlycorner » Tue Jun 23, 2015 10:20 am

Collected the leather interior for my C5 from @confused last weekend.
Firstly massive thanks to him for picking it up and transporting to Colchester, secondly, was great to see the Anglia for real - very impressive stuff! :hail: Should be a decent handful to drive :D

Now onto the main purpose of the thread...
The door cards have some small bits of fake wood trim. As fake wood goes, it looks ok, but isn't the look I want and doesn't go with the rest of the interior. The trim can't be removed (without leaving the rest of the door card as a real mess). I want to paint it a titanium silver type colour, but I've not done any interior plastic trim painting before so would like some advice please :D

The existing trim pieces have something like a lacquer coat on top of the main plastic. Rather than a sprayed paint coat, it's just another layer of plastic I think. It's slightly soft to touch with a nail.

Would I be right in thinking the process I need to go through is;
  • Give the surface a light key using a scotchbrite pad
    Mask all round
    Spray over with plastic primer
    Spray over again with top coat (ordinary Halfords exterior car paint)
    Job done?
Have I missed anything there?
Do I need to rub right through the current 'lacquer' layer to get to the proper plastic underneath? (not sure I can be arsed with that and I can see it becoming just a squidgy rubbed mess, rather than stripping off properly!)
Do I need to lacquer over the top of the 'top coat' or is that not necessary?

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Post by Donald » Tue Jun 23, 2015 11:07 am

When I did my Prelude ones I just used some wet and dry and went for it. Looked spot on.

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Post by bennyboy » Tue Jun 23, 2015 11:37 am

No you shouldn't need to take the top layer off.
I would use a 'proper' paint for the job though. The yanks pretty much have this stuff sewn up IMO - Things like plasticote really are very good, as usual it's a case of doing the preparation properly.
You wan't something that will give so as not to crack with heat/cold, and you want a good keyed surface.
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Post by bb1boy » Tue Jun 23, 2015 11:42 am

Also make sure surface is super clean with panel wipe or something similar.. years of greasy, oily fingerprints for the paint to react with..
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Post by wurlycorner » Tue Jun 23, 2015 12:12 pm

bennyboy wrote: I would use a 'proper' paint for the job though.
Thanks - Only problem is I can only seem to find that stuff in flat colours, whereas I want a metallic finish? (the other inserts on the interior of my car i.e. dash centre panel are silver).
I want something a bit darker than silver on the doors (hence titanium) but it still needs to be sparkly, otherwise I think it'll look pants :cry:

Any suggestions?

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Post by bennyboy » Tue Jun 23, 2015 12:15 pm

Odd - I'm looking at a metallic silver, gold and a 'chrome' in plasictcote as we speak. :?
Maybe it's just the range available to you?
They do a nice clear lacquer too btw.

EDIT to say that I'll be doing this at some point on the trim in the CR-V - It's just rubbed off on corners etc and a nice new coat of titanium or similar will do the trick. 8-)
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Post by wurlycorner » Tue Jun 23, 2015 12:16 pm

bennyboy wrote: EDIT to say that I'll be doing this at some point on the trim in the CR-V - It's just rubbed off on corners etc and a nice new coat of titanium or similar will do the trick. 8-)
Great - so where do we get it from? :lol:

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Post by bennyboy » Tue Jun 23, 2015 12:18 pm

Of all places, I just get mine locally from Wilkinsons (WIlko's) - Thye seem to have a very good range.
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Post by wurlycorner » Tue Jun 23, 2015 12:25 pm

No plasticote stuff listed.
Is it this stuff?
http://www.wilko.com/paint+woodcare/met ... size=150ml
(unhelpful/useless search filters on that site...) :roll:

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Post by bennyboy » Tue Jun 23, 2015 12:27 pm

Agreed - their search is SH1TE!
Odd, I wonder if they've stopped selling it? :(
I'm going there later, I'll have a look for you. :)
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