Dash and Dashpad - What to do?

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Rod 69 Cuda

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Dash - Anyone know what the original color/color code is and where to get the paint? Best home technique for repainting it?

Dash Pad - It doesn't clean up very well but has no cracks. What is the best way to clean/restore? Is it a good idea to recover it, if so with what material, and technique?

Thanks in advance...

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Like everything it's all in the prep.. clean clean clean clean clean and keep your oily fingers off of it... Very very light layers of paint and be very very patient..
It might turn out into something you like..
 
I repainted my dash last winter. My dash pad was in great shape so didn't do anything to it.
The dash color should be your interior paint color.
I went to a store that mixed/sold PPG paint. I sprayed mine on using a paint gun. The place I went to will also put it in a spray can.
Dash I sanded it down to metal, wiped it down, primed it and sprayed it. I had to do this three times before it wouldn't fish eye.
Lots of grease, grime, polish, etc that's worked it's way into the metal.
It takes time to do it right, probably had 20-30 hours into mine when I was finished, but it looks great.
Like j par said light coats of paint and let it dry. Also WEAR GLOVES!!.
I see the dash pads for sale on here and e-bay. You could always go that way if possible and dye it to you color.
 
ZMan67S said:
I repainted my dash last winter. My dash pad was in great shape so didn't do anything to it.
The dash color should be your interior paint color.
I went to a store that mixed/sold PPG paint. I sprayed mine on using a paint gun. The place I went to will also put it in a spray can.
Dash I sanded it down to metal, wiped it down, primed it and sprayed it. I had to do this three times before it wouldn't fish eye.
Lots of grease, grime, polish, etc that's worked it's way into the metal.
It takes time to do it right, probably had 20-30 hours into mine when I was finished, but it looks great.
Like j par said light coats of paint and let it dry. Also WEAR GLOVES!!.
I see the dash pads for sale on here and e-bay. You could always go that way if possible and dye it to you color.
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So I'm not the only one who fought fish eyes on a dash. I was surprised, I mean we've all painted hundreds of items right, so there's a certain set of steps we are used to guided by past results. I didn't get any more or less anal with this dash than anything else I've ever painted and was really shocked at reappearing fish eyes coat after coat. Just kept at it, sanding, tacking, painting. My contracting business is seamless coatings, concrete polishing, terrazzo etc. so I am painfully familiar with the specter of fish eyes which are usually caused by a contaminant or in rare cases inferior material or dew point.
 
I8NEMO said:
So I'm not the only one who fought fish eyes on a dash. I was surprised, I mean we've all painted hundreds of items right, so there's a certain set of steps we are used to guided by past results. I didn't get any more or less anal with this dash than anything else I've ever painted and was really shocked at reappearing fish eyes coat after coat. Just kept at it, sanding, tacking, painting. My contracting business is seamless coatings, concrete polishing, terrazzo etc. so I am painfully familiar with the specter of fish eyes which are usually caused by a contaminant or in rare cases inferior material or dew point.
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Fish eyes around the dash area is probably from an Armourall type product. I painted a friends Trans Am. We had it all ready for paint and just needed final wipe down and to be tacked off. Painted the car the next day and all turned out well. Oh yeah, except for the top of the doors. He later told me he armouralled the interior the night before with the Windows down. Grrrr!! Lotsa fish eyes and lots more work. Armourall is a ***** to get it all out IMO.
 
Heard that. Reminds me of a wet driveway with all the half moon Armor All "stains"
 
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