I have an '02 Max with black leather interior, and decided It would look better with the interior pillars, Bose sub cover, overhead accessories, and holy **** handles painted black. Lo and behold, I was right. As you all know, these parts are plastic, and it can be hard to to get paint to stick and look nice on plastic. I did some research and found a nifty product called Krylon Fusion. It is supposed to adhere to plastic with no need for priming or adhesion promoters. I simply washed all the parts, lightly sanded them with 400 grit paper(Krylon claims you don't even have to do that, but I did anyway for good measure), and sprayed away! The results: it looks amazing and seems to hold up really well. Krylon claims that peak chip resistance won't be achieved 'til about 5-7 days after spraying, but I felt confident enough to install the parts less than 24 hours after painting. My first impressions of this paint are all excellent. Super-fast drying time, looks great, and seems to stick to plastic really really well. Here are some pics of the painting process (sorry, the first ones are cellphone pics)....

-I'll be posting better pics of all the parts installed later today, including the map light console. (no pic of that yet)












Installed pics will be up later today!!!

 

please post up pics when your done with the install. ive been contimplating doing this for quite some time now.

 

Pics of Parts Installed:

 

-As you can see, it turned out beautifully!!!

 

looks owesome , it could pass for factory.

 

haha, yeah, that's what everyone who've seen have said

 

looks good, also been thinkin about doing this. nice key ring

 

looks good, im in the middle of doing this using a spray gun, i still need to do the roof and all its fixtures

 

It looks good but I think it would look more "complete" with headliner black also, yet to see someone do that.

 

im doing that in the spring

 

Ya I agree, I think a black suede headliner would look dope and really make you interior pop.

 

u can buy this paint anywhere right? i wuld lik to do some underhood things like my overflow tank and the neck of the washer fluid tank black ...

 

Looks good, especially the bose cover

 

 

Looks very good. Congrats!... (why is that sticker in the rear window backward?)

 

My Grand Prix has the same two tone effect. I've been thinking about going black up top too. This helps me see how it would look Nice job

 

Yeah, I'm thinking I might do the headliner sometime... I'm still trying to decide what the best way to do that would be... The problem with that is that I would then have to cover the sun visors, sunroof cover, and paint all the little tan pieces that really wouldn't paint all that well (like where the seatbelts constantly rub, and where the sun visors have that little plastic extention)... I'm not going to rule it out, but for now, the 2-tone looks really good. Nothing wrong with a little black on light
Oh and that decal in the back window was put on by my wife's little sister. That's why it's backwards..
I assume you can get that paint at a lot of places... I personally found it at Walmart. I got the flat black and it's still fairly shiny, so you should go with that unless you really want a gloss look.

-If anyone has any ideas on how to do the headliner in a classy, good-looking way, I'm all ears

 

Somebody on the Grand Prix forums did it. Here is some pics

http://www.gpona.com/forums/download...?id=584%20alt=
http://www.gpona.com/forums/download...id=1312%20alt=
http://www.gpona.com/forums/download...id=1311%20alt=

 

Wow. Those are some HUUUUUGE pics...

 

this is whats been holding me back, they have some paint for fabric at autozone that ive used in my older vehicles that worked really well

 

i have the same interior.. blk leather and such and thatlooks killers. the only thing i was thinking is it looks incomplete with the seatbelt holder and carseat latches still beige. Any way to undo the seatbelt and spray that black too?

 

Looks good, nice work. I'm in the process of wrapping my pillars and rear deck. I'm gonna wait till spring to pull the headliner and everything down. I'll probably do what you did with the handles, map, dome, etc... with the Fusion paint. Do they have a flat black though? I did my tweeter grilles in flat black but just regular duplicolor paint and they came out nice.

 

Yeah, the Krylon Fusion comes in flat black... but it still is somewhat shiny. Looks good though
I think I'll probably end up wrapping my headliner and sun visors... I don't know what to wrap them with though... might just find an inexpensive faux-suede type fabric... and the sun visors seem like they'll be a tricky job.

 

headliner is easy to cover(year upholstery experience)....i cant wait to buy a few rolls of fabric and do mine.

 

Ok,
so I've officially decided to recover the headliner, sunroof visor, and sunvisors in BLACK!!! I found a good inexpensive fabric that I'm simply going to put over the existing fabric. I plan on doing a write-up/how-to, so watch for it And of course I'll paint most, if not all remaining tan pieces black.

 

nice... will flow better with a black headliner.. also the seat belt 'holder' on the pillar needs to be black..

 

Yeeeaaaahh, That's the ONE part I still don't know how to get black! I don't know if the constant friction there is going to cause the paint to wear off... ... any ideas???

 

maybe there is a way to stain it black rather then painting

 

I recovered my rear deck panel with black carpet and painted all of the plastic parts with the Fusion paint over 2 years ago and I have two children (seatbelts used a lot). The paint is still adhering to the plastic as it did the day I painted it. No wear marks at all...

This is when it was done:



The custom woofer grill has since then compeltely been carpeted as well.

 

hey anyone know of any thing i can used for my door panels to make em black i hate my gray interior plz text me or call me or p.m. me or email me 626-393-4513 chrystian.gordillo@sprint.blackberry.net

 

uses a couple of coats of matte clear coat over the black for extra protection of the paint

 

Suede headliners are sick, I would go that route rather than die the headliner like some people have done. Im having my headliner and visors done in suede, I'll post pics when its done.

Jowo, now you need to get some nice custom seats from Leatherseats.com that will make your interior really stand out.

 

Hate to rain on your parade but am i the only one that thinks this looks like ****?

-_-

 

^^^Hahaha, yeah, it DID. Don't worry, that was just a temporary situation til I could get around to making the headliner black too. It now looks much better
P.S. - My Krylon Fusion paint is holding up marvellously

 

maybe its just the flash but it looks really glossy and the texture maybe reflected it badly.

Everything else looks clean though, regardless of your headliner. :P

 

yeah, i think its the flash. it wont look like that on a normal day. unless you are constantly around flashing lights.........

 

never got around to doing this on my car