I think I used the wrong paint or something, didn't come out that great. Check it out (my homepage) and let me know what ya think.

 

looks like a normal repainted dash to me

ps how did you go about removing your black vinal on your doors?

 

Should have done it in silver, white doesn't look right

 

Use a hair dryer or heat gun, heat it up then peel off a corner, you gotta heat up a section at a time and just keep peeling it away(mine came off in 1 big strip). Then when it is all off it will leave a yellowish residue, just grab a nice big bottle of goo-gone and a lint free cloth and RUB away, it helps if you heat up the residue as you go also. Once it's all off just buff it a little and give er a nice wax job.

Everyone has silver, brushed aluminum or wood, i wanted to do something different, plus i wanted it to match the car color.

 

sweet thanks. now i got a project for tomorrow

 

no prob man. Don't let the steps fool you though, it takes longer than it looks. I had to split it up into 2 days cuz under my finger nails were bleeding like hell lol. Longest part is getting it started.

 

I think you did a great job.

Pics of my dash are on my homepage.

Brian

 

White is a bit imo. I agree with silver being the color of choice here.

 

nah, i prefer white on a white car. It has that full sporty look although looks kind of hondaish becuase i seen a lot of honda's with same setup, i like the fact it matches the color of the car.

 

i like how it looks b/c it matches your car's body color. it came out nice as well, great job...

 

Thanks for the feedback guys, even the bad ones I agree it is kinda hondaish but what can I say, i was a ricer (99 si) till about 3 weeks ago

 

Really?..... and how do you like the max? Is it faster?

 

I love my max! It's only been 3 weeks but i'm not regreting it at all. The Max has a nice little kick to er, but my civ was standard (standard cars just seem more powerful lol). I have a 00 Grand am (our family car), a 99 stang (was me and my wifes cruisin' car) and I drive the max more than them all.

 

hey man yea i 2 embarked on the painted dash job, it came out pretty good but i was upset that it didnt have as much shine as taking it to be professionally painted would do. if anyone knows of a paint that will be as shiney as car paint lemme know.

 

Several coats of clear coat should make it shiny as hell

 

Agreed, I didn't clear coat mine and I probaly should have. I'm going to run by an auto body shop 2day and get an estimate to have it redone with the body color and clear caoated. I wouldn't think it would that much if i take everything off for em but we'll see. I was gonna order my body color paint but it was 50 bucks for a spray can @ paintscratch.com, if the body shop is more than 150 i'm just gonna order the paint and redo it myself.

 

i don't agree on the color but it looks like you did a good clean job..

 

Apparently not many people like the color oh well, I like it and thats all that matters right?

 

as long as you like it who gives a f*ck what everyone else thinks...

I was wondering what type of brush (or applicator)you used for the job cuz I've got a friend who did soemthing like that and it didn't come out nearly as nice.

 

I like the white. Ive done a couple of cars in white, id never do my own. But i still like it. Great job.

 

I think the white on white looks great. If my car was blue id paint the dash blue, if my car was red i'd paint the dash red, if my car yellow i'd paint the dash yellow, if my car was pink i'd be



sorry

 

Well I used spray paint that I got @ autozone, I used the wrong kind though cuz it chipped in a few spots. I'm gonna do it again with a high heat paint (like wheel or engine paint). I washed, sanded, primed twice, painted 3 times.

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thats my thinking as well, might be rice thinking but I don't care it's my car and I have to be seen driving it

 

yae i clear coated mine and it wasnt as shiny as i would of liked it to of been, im also debating ordering the spray can of my body color for the interior either that or a silver. if you end up doing that PM me with some pics and results

 

i'll let ya know, I went by but they were busy so i'm gonna try again either 2night or 2morrow.

 

IMHO, the only part that makes it ricey is how many different areas you painted. Still looks good though. Wish mine was that clean. I'm in the process of going from black/grey to black/white.

 

It looks better in pics than it does in person, the paint i got is crappy :\

 

please tell me you didn't paint the wood

 

yea i did, it was just around the radio and shifter

 

yo how did you keep the lights and **** in the climate control clean, i put tape over mine but it still came out bad and now i got residue on it dired up, does anyone have a solution to this that dosnt involve me removing all the paint with terpintine risking melting my plastic that will safly remove the gunk

 

The face on the climate control comes right off. Get a really small flathead screwdriver and work your way around the face (you will see some tabs that hold it on. Once you get that face off the only thing left is the lens. Just pop it off and glue it back on when your done. As for removing the dry paint you have, i'd try some goo-gone only thing I can think of :\ sorry

 

Looks good to me bro.

 

Question. How did u paint ur manual climate control. I have been thinking about doing it, but that one thing as made second think any atempts is my climate control. Do u perhaps have some close up pics?

 

hey great job~ i like it.. i just finished mine as well. but how did you get those air vent on both sides?

 

Mad Dhan- You have to take it all the way apart. Everything inside of the manual climate control housing will come out, including the little lights under the buttons. Its tedious, but its the only way to make it work. The only thing that won't come out is X1234 around the ****.

 

I painted my car just like that... even all those pieces. I have some pieces out now because this week I'm going to work on painting it all back black. I just got tired of the white. Had it like that for about 6 months. It's hard to clean too... well, not hard to clean, but hard to keep clean.

 

The faces pop off, they are on there pretty good. You gotta try to get one side off with a small flathead screwdriver then work the screwdriver between the face clips that connect to the vents themselves, it's a little tricky but if you look closely at em you will see what I mean.