Painting Dashboard.

[txhoescrapin]

Oh ok good. Nope and Nope haha. I put so much clear on it shouldn't matter. I really don't care right now it was sort of a rushed project one day when I was bored ha. I'll focus on my interior more when I'm done mechanically.

The amount of clear doesn't really effect the paint sticking to the plastic. Why does nobody want to do the prep work when painting?

 

[Mild]

when i did my dash, one coat of krylon fusion. it holds up fine except for the places where my knees hit.

never thought of using it as a primer though, pretty clean idea.

 

[imtbear69]

Heck I did the prep, but mine is a show truck so i had to do up right, all though i do have to admit it is time consuming if your going to sand it all down to make it smooth, if you want to keep the texture then just do a good cleaning on it and you should have no probs with flaking as long as it dosent get abused.
Here are a few pics of mine

 

[blackcoffee]

I did prep it. I washed the crap out of it, and primed it very well with the krylon plastic paint. I wanted to retain the original texture so I didn't sand it. I'm not a horrible painter. I'm actually decent at it.

 

[puckhead]

Yeah I would want to save the texture too. Any body using a adhesion/flex promoter like bullydog or anything?

 

[txhoescrapin]

You dont sand the texture away, and never said you weren't a good painter. Looks good, sorry for the hijacck.

 

[puckhead]

I guess I dont fully understand the priming/cleaning process then lol. How does it not take away the texture when you sand?

 

[grnrpr68]

looks good

 

[txhoescrapin]

I guess I dont fully understand the priming/cleaning process then lol. How does it not take away the texture when you sand?

You can send the dash just to scuff up the surface. You would have to use like 100 grit and sand the shit out of it to take texture away.