dupont trim and vinyl/fabric paint

[trackTSIawd]

After using a few different products doing interior painting on a few of my friends cars I was fairly disappointed with the either very glossy or too dull finish that any of them offered. Yesterday I was painting my buddies c5 interior and decided to go with black trim paint by dupont. All I did was wipe it down with my prep solution, rinse it, dry it, and scuff it with a light stripping pad (where as with some of the other products they required you to prime the part). I used three coats of it and it was dry in 25 minutes. The best part is it's the perfect balance between gloss and flat, verrry OEM looking. The finish is pretty damn durrable too, doesnt rub off like most of the paints i have worked with. So after I finished the trim pieces I did the carpets with the vinyl and fabric paint and they came out really good. One coat wont do the trick (at least not over tan) and you have to be very even in your coats or you will get tiger striping. (My buddy tried to paint a storage compartment cover and it looked like a car if you gave an inexpierienced painter a gun full of silver metallic on his first job ) If anyone is interested when I get his car back together this weekend I could post a couple pics of it.. should look especially good with the new corbeaus.

 

[yokotabrat]

I'd definitely like to see some pictures.

Also, care to share what you used and didn't like about them? Also, did you try SEM vinyl paint? I've heard good things about it but would appreciate your opinion if you tried it. Thanks.

 

[wilddog]

I've had awesome experience with duplicolor fabric/vinyl

 

[trackTSIawd]

I've never heard of the SEM stuff, but just about anything you can find on a paint shelf in one of the parts stores Ive used. I had an especially bad expierience with the plastic paint, even WITH a coat of primer the crap is still tacky in my buddies 3000gt on a couple spots to this day. I just finished putting the vette back together last night and it looks awesome. The only bad thing I can say about the fabric paint is that its not the most durrable finish in the world, but at 5 or 6 bux a can you cant go wrong, painting this interior saved my buddy about 1200. We just started replacing some dash stuff so the car should be 100% by this weekend so I can upload some pics.

 

[Grimis]

sweet, im going to look for this stuff, might be cheper then hunting down the black dash and panels.. will wait for pictures

 

[Smitherines]

I want pictures too! Imagine...me having the first total black 1g interior....EVER?!

 

[trackTSIawd]

You'd be the second kekeke

 

[Grimis]

hmmm any one know where to grab this stuff at?? i tried googling it and im not turning it up...

 

[trackTSIawd]

NAPA and Advanced Auto, sorry for not having pics but Ive been really busy and havent seen my buddy in a couple weeks, Ill see if he will take pics and send them to me if anyone is still interested.

 

[Foreverfalcon40]

Did you use a spray gun or the can. I am interested in doing this to my interior.

From my research I found that:

You need to scuff all parts. (What grain sand paper did you use? Hand or Sander?)
Apply Vinyll Prep
Apply Adhesion Primer
Apply Primer
Apply Paint
Apply Clear Coat

If would greatly appreciate if you further explained you methods or even create a HOW-TO!