Ok I did this cuz iv never seen anyone do this plus I hate the silver color. I had a aftermarket headunit( don't ask)lol. So now I have to use this one for the time being. Here's some pics let me know what you guys think.

Before


Prep


After...I still need to clean some of the paint that managed to get on the screen off



Sorry for the crappy pics and ill also post one when I get it installed

 

dude..... you cannot paint

 

^ hater

 

Hey I tried lol my dash trim pieces look way better than this..like I said this is just temporary and just wanted to try it

 

did you sand it at all? looks pretty wavey. i'm sure when its in the car though its not gonna be noticable.

 

Wet sanded it

 

He means before you applied the paint.

 

The two spots that you had covered with tape at the bottom look like ****, but the rest is nice man. Just take an exact-o knife and clean those spots up for practice.

Nice job overall, just gotta fix that little bit.

Did you use multiple coats, or just one? Because it looks like you might have laid it all on thick at once haha. Multiple coats ftw.

Just constructive criticism man, we all had to start somewhere.
I mean look at my rims, they look like ****. At least you picked out badass ones, xD.

 

Multiple coats..I only did it cuz I'm getting another aftermarket one so I thought I'd try this out..my dash trim looks good tho and yea I like me rims
here's a pic of my dash trim looks pretty good I think

 

That looks good

 

I painted my stock radio a while back. matches the rest of my flat black interior.

 

^^^ very nice I wanted to do the same ^_^

 

Damn that flat black matches perfectly from what I can see in the pic. How close is it?

 

Thanks

 

That looks good

 

yeah the flat black on the headunit you painted matches the hvac controls pretty good, along with the rest of the interior nice job nickateen

 

umm had 4 people in my car at school today and all have been in and out of it quite a bit and not a single one even knew it was painted until we got to talking about it lol. it looks factory which is what i was going for. I'll get a better pic sometime. that pic sucked!

 

Here's a little better pic. Not as much glare. Supercharged badge over on the side where the SS used to be.

 

Wow that looks really good man. What prep did you do and what paint (besides flat black)?

 

sanded down then cleaned. primered with rustoleum plastic primer then wet sanded that then cleaned again then used rustoleum acrylic enamel flat black. dries very smooth and very well then waited for the first few coats to dry wet sanded it to get it smooth again then laid another 2 coats all around to make sure i didn't miss anywhere. turned out great!

 

Oh cool. Thanks.

 

you could prob plasti -dip it to just another option

 

u bastard... lol i put the supercharged badge on too

 

What is ment when u wet sanded ?


I've been wanting to do this for a while but haven't been motivated lol. N now I am

 

wet sanding? when u use a really high grit sand paper like 1000 grit 1500 grit 2000 grit. dip the sand paper into dish soapy water then get whatever it is you're sanding wet with the sand paper then smoothly sand it. it will do just a very light and smooth scuffing.