^^sometimes it can be gay.. but i'm doing it with my car and i think its going to look really really clean. i'm using STOCK OEM HONDA INTERIOR COLORS! charcoal and light grey(type k). i think it will look really clean in my vsm ek coupe

 

I used Krylon paint on my car (avail at Canadian tire) I had no problems with it, it's held up well and it's been over a year since I painted. High contact areas tend to get scratched up but that can pretty much be expected. everything used to be stock grey, including the steering wheel. I haven't painted the doors yet. The only 'primer' I used was a thorough cleaning with windex (recommended by Krylon).

 

all flashy colors are pretty ghey looking but if its all black, then it looks kinda cool.

 

the quickest explanation i could think off.... if you want a more in depth how to pm me or ask me and i will post it.....good luck

Painting Interior.

Here is how you paint the interior of your car.

Products: SEMS Plastic Prep, SEMS Interior Paint (choose your color), Really fine sandpaper, like 2000 grit, SEMS Gloss Clear Coat.

1.) Take out everything that you are going to paint, and lightly sand any imperfections.

2.) Wash it with a mild soap and water. Dry.

3.) spray with SEMS Plastic Prep. Let sit for 30 seconds, then spray again. Wipe off with a clean cloth (no lint...ie cotton towels)

4.) Spray very thin layers, if your interior is black, and you are going white...it make take more than 5 coats. Just keep spraying it till it looks good.

5.) let the paint dry really good between coats, and do it in a clean area.

6.) Gloss coat 2-3 times, the gloss takes a little longer to dry. These coats will protect from scratches later on.

7.) Let sit out of your car for 3-4 days. So that they harden correctly, and so that your car won't stink!

8.) Reinstall your newly painted parts.

If you happen to mess up, just sand the area and spot paint, and gloss coat again...it is better to have a perfect job, than one blemish!

 

Here is another way....


Step 1) Prepare yourself for at least 3 days of painting. This is by no means a quick "lil project." Not counting the dash, it took my 3 days to paint the doors and carpet. At the end of those three days I still had one more door to do and half of another. However, I do believe that someone more dedicated could do it in 3 days, because I started at 9 in the morning and stopped at 3pm cause I had to go to work.

Step 2) Buy your paint. I bought all my paint at Wal-Mart's Automotive section. The following are the paints you should use.
MolecuBond Color Refinisher
Nu-Hue Automotive Sandable Primer
Dupli-Color Auto Spray: Clear Top Coat
Dupli-Color Enamel Paint (White)
Some small paint brushes that you would find in the Craft section of a store. Buy at least two brushes.



NOTE: If you can find a white vinyl paint by all means use this instead. I could not find any, so I made do with what I had.

(WARNING: Member tried regular paint on vinyl surfaces and it resulted in an good finish, except that in extreme heat, the paint will become sticky and flake off. As a result, regular paint is not recommended, except on plastic surfaces.)

Step 3) Take apart your car. Other than the carpet, take out what ever you plan to paint. While all that stuff is out, paint the carpet. I won't go into how to do this, cause many other people have said how and its pretty straight forward. I will say this: There are 3 screws in the doors. One in the handle to open it, one in the little "cup" and one on the part of the door panel that folds out and touches the door jam. After these are out, you can just pull on the door to pop it off. Also the frame around the door lock on the TOP of the panel just comes right out, push hard! At this point its just little door clips holding it on, so do not be afraid to pull hard! Keep in mind that this is for a SEDAN, 2 doors may be different!!!

Step 4) Painting the dash and lower console: Pretty simple, just clean and spray. I used the regular White spray paint here. You may want to use the Primer here, but it turned out fine for me without it. The skill comes in how you spray. Hold the can about 6 inches away from your target surface. If you're painting from left to right, start to spay the paint to the left of the surface. Once spraying, THEN move the can
across your surface and don't stop spraying until you're past the edge. There is a reason. If you start to spray while already aiming at your surface, you may shoot a glob of paint that has collected on your nozzle onto your surface, causing yourself much distress and lots of cussing. Also, if you start to spray on your surface, you're likely to hold it there for a second. This will cause more paint to settle there than anywhere else and it won't look even. There may be better methods, but this is what worked for me. Your coats should be a light dusting of paint. This way you won't get the Fisheyes that are so hated by us perfectionist.

If your curious what I am talking about, turn a panel over, and spay some paint from about 2 inches away on the back of it. You'll see what I mean. If you lightly dust the panels, it should take you about 4 coats. Let each coat dry before you paint the next. If you can run your hand across it and your hand doesn't stick, its dry. Sunlight works best for drying. Once you're satisfied with the paint, put your clear coat on. If you don't do this, your paint will chip so easily that you'll hate ever doing this in the first place. The same rules aply as with painting. Use two coats.

Step 5) Panting your door panels: First thing is to get rid of your carpeted area's. This is the Easy way: Put Two heavy coats of paint on the carpet. I do mean HEAVY. Let sit in the sun for 10 minutes. Then grab a knife and peel the carpet back. The purpose of the paint is too hold the fuzzy part of the carpet to the mesh part you're pulling off. This is why I say to use two HEAVY coats. The Hard way: This is how I did 3 out of my 4 doors. My errors are your lessons. Say "Thank you." Peel the carpet off. You are now staring at a hole butt-load of fuzz that are glued onto your door panel. Take a knife and start scrapping. It takes 20-30 minutes to get this stuff off, have fun. Below is a picture of what the fuzz look like. (Webmaster: The rear "Doors" of the hatchback models have the carpet attached to a metal bracket. You can pry this off easily: the metal comes off with the carpet. However, it leaves holes (from where it was attached) after you remove it. Seal the holes up before you continue)



Now you'll want to get all that glue off. Use Simple Green or any kind of cleaner to get it off. If you're lazy like me, leave it on. That part of my door panel is kind of hard and not pleasant to rub your arm on. I left it cause I was lazy that day, it looks good now anyway, and its my car, so there! Start your spraying. Lots of coats will go on this part of the door. Now paint the black part of the door. Bust out that vinyl paint and go to town. The picture above about the fuzz shows the panel with just one coat of paint on it. That is how much paint I put on per coat. Now in order to make the line between Black and White look good, you'll need those brushes. I sprayed the black vinyl paint on a sheet of paper and ran the brush over it. Then I painted the grove in the door black. I literally spay paint the other brush white and that's how I touched up the edge of the white. The white paint is thinner, that's why I used the two different methods. Set in sun to dry.

Step 6) Painting the stuff on the door panel: Simple as well. Take the window and power lock switches out and set the aside. Make sure you remember which goes to which side of the car. Some of the wires that come out of these switches bend and go in a certain direction. If you put them in wrong, that panel may not fit flush to the door due to the fact that the wire is in incorrectly and pushing on something.
Once the switches are out, paint. I used the black vinyl paint. Set in sun to dry.

Step 7) Removing and Painting your kick plates and other interior panels: First look at them. Figure out which one is on top of the others and start with that one. On the sedans, the piece that goes up between the doors is the one on top, start there. This panel is not screwed down. Just get a screw driver and pry the lip over the metal of the car. It should just pop off. Next I think is the front panels, like the fuzz cover. Unscrew, and remove, very simple. Now go after your kick guards. They are held on to the car with clips much like your door panels. They also have fittings that are attached to the carpet. In order to get these out, PULL HARD. You won't be able to put these fittings back in, but you won't really have too. The other clips on the outside edge will hold the panel in very snuggly. Now go after the last one, the one that goes up between your back seat and also has the rear kick guard attached. This one has a grommet at the very top. You must fold your rear seats down, and pull that other piece of seat forward. Pull hard. This will expose the grommet. Unscrew and remove. When you try to put that other piece of the seat back, use a screw driver to pry the metal piece up in order to fit it in its slot. Trust me, you'll know what I am talking about once you see it. This is where I use the primer. I just didn't feel that the paint would stick very well, so I spayed two coats on it. Do this and the spray the paint on. Set in sun to dry.

Step 8) Painting the carpet: Bust out that vinyl paint again. It may or may not say on the can that it works well on carpets. Most other vinyl paints do in fact state this, so don't be afraid to use it on your carpet. At this point, pretty much everything is out of your car. Spray, Spray, Spray. Go at different angles, use may coats, and most important, look at it in the sunlight. If you do this in your garage like me, you'll realize that you can see the light spots much better in the sun. Don't forget to spray your E-brake handle as well as its flimsy "guard" or whatever its called. Let dry.

NOTE: Make sure you spay in short amounts of time. Do not try to spray the whole thing at once because the fumes will not be good for you!!! Also, if you spray all at once, you'll get a lot of paint floating around in the air. That paint has to settle somewhere, and it will doesn't care if it's your seats, windows, face, eyeballs, lips, stereo, gauge cluster....

Step 9) Re-installation: Put it all back in reverse order from the way you took it out. That's all I have to say about that.

Step 10) Maintenance: You will inevitably scratch something while putting it back. Just bust out some paint, spay, and ad clear coat. This method is safe to do while in the car, because the amount of paint you are using wont cause over spray and paint won't float around and settle on stuff. So remember, you don't have to kill your girlfriend when she scratches it, just make here buy your paint. Here is my teg ALMOST finished:



Notes to the reader: Again this was for the sedan. There may be differences between this and a Coupe. I don't know what those might be, but I am sure that they are present. So if I mentioned something above that just doesn't make sense to you and you have a Coupe, that's why. All my methods described above are what worked out best for me. I am in no way a professional painter and this is the first interior I have ever done. If someone else suggests to you a different way, listen and decide what's best for you. Their way may work out better than mine. I am just member who had time on his hands, not a Pro who finally did his own car instead of his customers. That said, good luck and enjoy your interior. This message will self destruct in 5 seconds.

 

holy huge write-up batman

 

i painted my ineterior and it looks great...ill try to get a pic soon.
All i did was take pieces out, clean them obviously with any kind of mild soap(dish soap works well) and i painted using tremclad available anywhere. I painted 8 light coats of colour( i used white) and then 3 coats of clear. I have no bubbles or fading and its been 6 months. Only thing i regret is i wish i painted differently. I painted the centre of all doors( i have a 4dr) white and the centre console white and the rest of he dash and doors in blue. Looks great but the white gets dirty easy although with 3 coats of clear it is easy to wash. Up to you i think it worked out fine for me and a few of my boys.

 

I found this tutorial online, maybe itll be some help for you

http://www.advanceautoparts.com/howt...20030401DP.htm

 

here's another great write up:

http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbul...d.php?t=223651

 

sand with 600 grit, then wax & grease remove ever square cm, then paint.