HOW TO: Paint your interior

Here is a good read for those wanting to do it themselves:

http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=535354

And here is a phenomonal How To thread on JBO, everyone should read this:

http://www.j-body.org/forums/read.php?f=45&i=70341&t=70341

Hope that helps!

thank you...:banghead: lol

hey, where did you get that black dash. is that stock or did you paint it?

Oh shit I didnt even know bryan (Cavlcd) finished his interior. Looks good bryan :thumbsup:

To answer your question napolean, he custom painted that.

.....black dash? Where are you guys looking? And where are Bryan's finished pics? I'm so lost.

.....black dash? Where are you guys looking? And where are Bryan's finished pics? I'm so lost.His car domain :thumbsup:
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Oh I looked there but didnt click any, they looked like the charcoal color to me. Did you lose the small vents on the corners?

Are you asking me if I lost the corner vent??? Remember im not Cavlcd I was just posting his pics.

lol what do you take me for?

lol what do you take me for?I only ask because........

Did you lose the small vents on the corners?

Hey Everyone I just took a bunch of interior parts from a cavailer in my auto class that we are junking and the 1 panel around the gauge cluster and radio is cracked right beside where the AC is any1 know what would be good to use to glue it together
Thanks for the Help

I would say just use Krazy glue/super glue on the back of it. There's a crack in mine too in the same spot pretty much but on the other side of the hvac and I didn't glue it or anything and it's barlely noticeable.
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...this pic/post whoring is pretty fun, now I know why Cody does it :lol:

...I hate how my camera does that, it never looks orange in real life.

Ya the crack on mine is a little bigger than that tho i will get some pics later i just loaded it with some glue i don't think it will hold up tho

Ya before i prime the dash bezel i would like to fix the crack dose any 1 know what would work cause crazy glue dosen't lol

You might want to try gorilla glue on it and then sand it down smooth. Or I guess you could even use some bondo :dunno:

Ya I used some bondo n it worked perfect i primed a few things for my interior gonna be working on it some more tomaro i painted the part that goes by the gauges sliver it looks so sweet agaist the black background LOL The parts car that i took all the interior out off got ran over by my buddies GMC truck n then sent to the junk yard it was so sweet to watch tho

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Sorry man my camera is broken so i can't take any pics for a little while

Sorry man my camera is broken so i can't take any pics for a little while


:angryfire :swear: lol its all good man. good luck with the rest of the painting.

the bondo works good though makes everything sooo smooth

hmm, could you use bondo over everything for a fiberglass look or it wouldnt stick well?

worth a try is it not, couldn't look worse than pealing right, shit give it a shot, sand the hell out of it and put THIN layers of bondo and sand them smooth every time, it is alot like drywalling, you cna slap 10 yards of that shit on and except it to look right or even dry right, it will take days to dry and start to crack, so use some thin layers

nah, im all set with trying that, i hate driving around without a dash, and i have no experience with bondo yet and im def. not starting on my dash lol

i got a truck you can bondo the hell out of

:lol: Awesome

you think i'm kidding lol i am gonna bondo the hell out of it like 10 times and fuck up the paint 10 times and get really good at it, or so i hope. either that or learn how to ruin it

lol i hear ya man, i thought about the bondo the dash thing, and wouldn't it crack and stuff?

Ya it could but as long as u have a really thin amount of it on the part it shouldn't crack i wish i could send u a pic of the back of my dash LOL its covered in bondo where the crack was 1 thing about painting your interior when u start u just want to keep going n painting more things i was just going to go with stock black and then add some red but then i was like my cd player is sliver might as well add some silver too so now i have the plastic peice by the gauges silver the buttons for the AC and rear defrost n soon the vents

Nice man, you gotta get a camera.

Ya i should get it back soon what happened to your cigarette lighter lance its not there in those pics u put up I was thinking about filling mine in so its just smooth there

I took it out while I was painting and didn't keep track of it, I eventually found it under my seat. I didn't care, I don't smoke so I don't need it anyway.

Ok i got the camera n took some pics of all my stuff in primer and the sliver pecie by the gauges
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I should be painting them red today

Awesome, did you sand all the texture off or just a little bit so the paint sticks?

I sanded all the texture off it would look wierd if u just painted it a different colour n left the texture but on the sliver part i just painted it because u can't even really see the texture on it anyway but that really makes the gauges look sweet

Yeah it does. Lookin' forward to seeing the final product.

so you do have bondo on your rear deck piece?

The pieces lood good so far Jay, cant wait to see the rest when there all done.

I only have bondo on the big peice that goes around the AC n radio its only on the 1 part where the crack was tho

Hey All my parts im painting are finally all red here's some pics im gonna start spraying clear on them tuesday and then hopefully get all the parts in before the weekend I can't wait to see it all done
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Looks good sar far Jay, It going to look even better with the clear on there.

Ya I need to go buy some i can't find the duplicolour clear coat that the 1 guy who made the guide on painting his interior used i looked at Wall Mart but they don't have it or any clear coat spray paint i went to Canadian Tire and they don't have it either but they have another brand that was really expensive

Do you have an Autozone around you? Because I picked mine up from there and worked very well for me http://www.dupli-color.com/gallery/gallery_images/can_truckvan.jpghttp://www.dupli-color.com/art/spacer20x.gif

Nope I don't think there is autozone's in Canada im gonna try going to a few more hardware stores n looking or go back n look at wall mart mabye they got a new shipment of it in since i was last there

Oh alright well just dont sacrifice for cheap shit man.

Finally got My interior stuff painted and put back in tell me what ya think
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Looks really good Jay! Are you planning on painting any other parts?

The vents Silver and the door handel thing red and the thing around the power window buttons but thats about it im not gonna do them for awhile tho kinda sick of painting for a bit lol

haha sounds good I love painting though, I would do it everyday if I could :)

It's not the paint that gets to me, it's the SANDING. I literally sanded my finger print off, pretty cool if I didnt want to leave my print anywhere but it took like 2 weeks to get it back lol

^haha yeah sanding does suck but if you use a sanding block like I used, then its makes it a helluva lot easier on the hands and fingers.

I bought one and tried it but I didn't like it. I couldnt feel what I was sanding or how much I was sanding. And I didn't like how it couldn't bend very well on curves or corners.

I bought one and tried it but I didn't like it. I couldnt feel what I was sanding or how much I was sanding. And I didn't like how it couldn't bend very well on curves or corners.I'm guessing you bought a square slash/rectangle one then?? You need to use the one that is curved on one side and flat on the other like I have :)

I'm guessing you bought a square slash/rectangle one then?? You need to use the one that is curved on one side and flat on the other like I have :)
....I thought that curve was just for comfort for your palm :uhoh:

That may be just whats its for but I used it to sand also lol

lol ya i used a plam sander to do most the big stuff on mine and then sanded by hand and wet sanded it a couple times to make it perfect

I also wet sanded a few times, couple on when sanding and then couple when I primed it.

Just finished painting a few more pieces on the interior, what ya'll think??
And oh are they soooo smooth!!! lol

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On the second picture where it looks like there is a chip on the one piece thats just a glare from the camera.

Damn, those are glosstastic

Ya they look sweet i was thinking about painting them peices too well not the 1's for the back seat belts

Allrighty i kinda feel like painting again and im gonna paint them corner things where the power mirrors are and im going to paint the door panels like the pic below and sometime paint the center consolehttp://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h5/pmpedcavi04/HPIM1590.jpg