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Doing minor work on the "best British car" (Miata). I restored the look of a couple of black plastic pieces that cap the interior just next to the seats. They're minor, but they're the first thing you see when you open the door. Both were bleached out from the sun, and while I don't expect painting them is going to last forever I hope it'll be good for a few years.
This process should be able to work on just about any interior plastic parts, given care.
Here's what they looked like "before":
I use "SEM" paint products for my interior work. Most of this is left-over from an airplane interior restoration project, it's available from trim-suppliers. The SEM prep process is to clean the item first using "SEM Soap" (I used water and baby shampoo in a spray-bottle first, scrubbing with a toothbrush). Then follows #38535 plastic prep, a quick sanding of the plastic, then another prep with #38535.
The adhesion promoter #39863 probably isn't necessary in many situations but I wanted to try it. #39863 does coat the plastic and sprayed too heavily will leave a run (SEM says put a "wet" coat on before paint but be careful with it).
Finally I used SEM Color Coat 15013 Landau Black, sort of a satin "not quite flat" black. Color Coat is easy to work with. All the colors I've used can be painted on heavy yet flows out and ends up looking terrific. Great stuff, much better than the Krylon and other hardware-store plastic paints I've used.
Here's the finished product (I didn't paint the rubber, obviously):
This part will come out again when I put the new top on. I'll clean all that other plastic that I didn't bother cleaning for the plastic
FYI - their paints work great on textured paints. The "faux" leather-grain used in the later MGBs for example. I haven't painted any, but the last airplane interior restoration I did had a similar "leather grain" to it. After a couple of coats the plastic takes on a "colored" look rather than a "painted" look that doesn't fill the grain:
This process should be able to work on just about any interior plastic parts, given care.
Here's what they looked like "before":
I use "SEM" paint products for my interior work. Most of this is left-over from an airplane interior restoration project, it's available from trim-suppliers. The SEM prep process is to clean the item first using "SEM Soap" (I used water and baby shampoo in a spray-bottle first, scrubbing with a toothbrush). Then follows #38535 plastic prep, a quick sanding of the plastic, then another prep with #38535.
The adhesion promoter #39863 probably isn't necessary in many situations but I wanted to try it. #39863 does coat the plastic and sprayed too heavily will leave a run (SEM says put a "wet" coat on before paint but be careful with it).
Finally I used SEM Color Coat 15013 Landau Black, sort of a satin "not quite flat" black. Color Coat is easy to work with. All the colors I've used can be painted on heavy yet flows out and ends up looking terrific. Great stuff, much better than the Krylon and other hardware-store plastic paints I've used.
Here's the finished product (I didn't paint the rubber, obviously):
This part will come out again when I put the new top on. I'll clean all that other plastic that I didn't bother cleaning for the plastic
FYI - their paints work great on textured paints. The "faux" leather-grain used in the later MGBs for example. I haven't painted any, but the last airplane interior restoration I did had a similar "leather grain" to it. After a couple of coats the plastic takes on a "colored" look rather than a "painted" look that doesn't fill the grain:
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