Please Anyone Who Knows How To Properly Paint A Car Interior Help Meeee!!!!

[firebird19_99]

every time i paint the panels on the inside of my car, the paint always smears or chips off...ive used primer then base coats then clear coats then a wax, but it still happens...can anyone give me a step by step process on how to do it correctly so i can get the look i want on my car

[cam98aro]

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better paint.. honestly

[firebird19_99]

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what brand?

[f-tothe-ill]

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forget the names but use a bonding agent to help the paint adhere to plastic better.

[CamaroJeff™]

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use a good wax and grease remover first. how many times do you figure your interior has been saturated in armor all. paint (although vinyl dye is what you should be using) dosent like to stick to silicone at all, you must remove that.

whenever we refinish interior panels at the shop we wipe them down with wax and grease remover, then use comet and scotch brite pads to clean them even further, and degrease them one more time.

again, you should be using vinyl dye, not paint. 99 out of 100 interior panels are textured, and when the panel is manufactured there is a mold release agent embedded in the material. think of scuffing a surface to glue something, and reverse it. hence the mold release agent. vinyl dye is much less susceptible to the problems of adhesion when compared to paint.

either way you have to properly prep the surface. adhesion promoters (or bonding agents) ike bulldog will only take you so far, you still have to start with a clean surface.

[niik000]

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i just washed mine with dish soap and used a cheep arosal can that was sapost to match my exterior. I did one light coat, gave it 5-th minits, did another coat, waited another 5-10 minits, have it a heavy coat, waited untill that looked dry, and just keped spraying the crap out of it. then i waited an hour and did the same thing with the clear coat. it's lasted me about a month or so with out a hint of chiping or anything. i didnt primer.

[TheGr8Schlotzky]

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CamaroJeff hit the nail on the head, but if you still want to do paint, there are a few products that will surely work better than the paint you're probably using.

Like he said, you're going to need to clean it very well, and dye would be the best bet, but SEM has a bumper paint out that is sort of a mixture of dye and paint, which bonds very well to the plastic and won't chip or scratch off so easy. It's really the dye that makes is stick so well.

From a basic paint standpoint, lacquer paints bond much better to plastic as opposed to enamel or acrylic so of the basic paints, that's your best choice.

[niik000]

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but camaro jeff sounds like he knows what he is talking about more than i do.

[TheGr8Schlotzky]

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I think it's safe to say most people want a paint that's going to last longer than a month..

[firebird19_99]

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thanks that helps a lot, should have cleaned. DUH! i feel like an idiot now.....anyone got any specific brands that work gr8???

[TheGr8Schlotzky]

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like i said, SEM is the brand that comes to mind

[CamaroJeff™]

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yep, SEM makes some very good products for the price and availability. there are better products out there but then you get into tints, mixing, ratios and activators which tend to add up.

btw i work in a restoration/custom/hotrod/collision shop. we tend to have to do things the right way when someone is spending in the hundreds of thousands of dollars ;)

[firebird19_99]

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thanx this helps a lot....hopefully now it'll turn out decent and like TheGr8Schlotzky said, hopefully it lasts longer than a month.

[Shirl]

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I think it's safe to say most people want a paint that's going to last longer than a month..

I was thinking the same thing. What's the point then... just keep the panels stock and don't play with the paint to begin with if you don't know what you're doing. Those panels should be done with professional paint that is baked on with a clear coat. If that's not possible, try what CamaroJeff said.

[firebird19_99]

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yea i agree with all of u guyz...and im doing what shirl said, just gonna keep them stock, but now i have to take all the old paint off and then im just gonna clear coat it to bring the shine back b/c the paint remover dulls the panels down