Painting your interior door panels...

Rkpfsu

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have any of you ever attempted this?
The door panels are plastic and should be easy to paint but before I try it I wanted to see if anyone else had done so.
Being the cheap a$$ that I am and seeing how there is nothing wrong with the panels with the excception of the color (spice) I figured why not.
 
Use Vinyl Die.
it is available is a spray can.
You can get nice results this way.
If it is too shiny after painting, rub it down with a gray scoth brite pad.
 
Regular spraypaint works good too. I used them on my seats 5 years ago! Semi-gloss is the way to go.

Clean it good with some windex and paint it on a nice sunny day.

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Go down to United imports, I think they are on Broad st.

Get the "SEM" brand vinyl dye. Very good quality stuff and works very well in interiors. its the only chit ill use.
 
greg slade said:
Go down to United imports, I think they are on Broad st.
Get the "SEM" brand vinyl dye. Very good quality stuff and works very well in interiors. its the only chit ill use.
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That's what I used on my interior doors, on my '99. I did the whole vinyl cleaner, vinyl primer, vinyl dye deal and originally it did turn out well.

The problem I ran into is eventually the paint wore off in "high traffic" areas. Mainly towards the front where my leg sat against the door. Particularly when I had the soft window folded down. In fact much of the paint came off and stuck to the window. Now I'm a lard ass, so could be a smaller person who didn't contact the door as much might not have the same problem.

It was a cheap fix, but for me it wasn't a permanent fix. Your milage may vary.

Jeff
 
I also painted my door panels on my cj7 hard doors. Semigloss spray paint. Worked great!
 
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