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Looking for the best choice to repaint black part of the dash top S70

posted by  Duke-99S70GLT on  Wed Jul 22 11:10 CST 2015
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I just completed cracked dash mount repairs and repaired a couple of cracks and a big piece that I managed to break off while repairing the mounts. This is not the color matched dash pad but the part of the main dash with the defrost vents that is seen (when installed) along the base of the windshield.

I was thinking flat black Krylon Fusion would best recreate the color and would probably be wipe-able when cleaning the car in the future.

I do already have a can of black plasti-dip but started wondering if that was a good idea or not. Heck the plasti dip might be easier to wipe clean, I don't know.

Any thoughts or experience on this?








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    posted by  someone claiming to be on  Wed Dec 31 18:00 CST 1969 [RELATED]

    The original is unpainted flat black plastic, that turns greyish with age. So long as the paint or plasti-dip is flat black, you should be in good shape.
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      posted by  someone claiming to be on  Wed Dec 31 18:00 CST 1969 [RELATED]

      Up until Monday, I thought it was unfinished plastic as well. Some of my ABS glue got on the top side while I was working and when I tried to get it off it created a spot that I thought was on top of the plastic. I diluted a small amount of acetone on a cloth with water and it just made the spot bigger. Now it is obvious that it does have some kind of flat finish.

      Couldn't find fusion in flat black so I settled for Rustoleum 2 in 1 mainly because after 4 stores it was the only flat black of any kind to be found.

      I may yet return it and just use the plasti-dip. It worked well on the front lower air intake and fog light trim it is leftover from.



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        posted by  someone claiming to be on  Wed Dec 31 18:00 CST 1969 [RELATED]

        Plasti-dip is neat because if you don't like it, you can peel it off. That part of the dash is too far forward for finger prints anyway.

        I was thinking of using plasti-dip for the roof rails that are peeling, If I can't find a nice set of roof rails in the pick&pull.
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          posted by  someone claiming to be on  Wed Dec 31 18:00 CST 1969 [RELATED]

          Well I sanded it with 220 and 600 and started painting it with the Rustoleum anyway. I started with three or four coats of Dupli-Color Adhesion Promoter for plastic surfaces. I'm on my third coat of flat black. I'l' probably do one more and call it. It looks good but once it dries will be slightly blacker than before. I hope only slightly. The original color is a little more gray.

          This will definitely look better than it was going to look without the paint.



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            posted by  someone claiming to be on  Wed Dec 31 18:00 CST 1969 [RELATED]

            That slightly gray color is probably more from the sun and high heat fading it than anything else. It will look better than OE.

            My 120 had a black metal strip, gloss. Much easier to maintain, and, it was screwed in. They didn't bother with VINs back then either - it was stamped into the firewall on the engine side.
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