Hey EVERYBODY.... lets paint our interiors black (Thumbs up)

[MustangOwner]

THIS IS NOT MY CAR


For those of you guys in love with the black interiors! Buy it! Don't try to copy. These are just pictures.... just imagine what it looks like in person! This is why you don't change the color of your interior. Also because when you rub against it or scratch it, guess what!? It shows your old color through. And besides the new paint looking to shiny and dumb. It also just doesn't look right, because its like you can see through the black paint and see the old color. All i have to say is don't paint your interior. Leave your nice clean blue/red/grey. Personally i'll take my stock grey/black any day of the week. The only thing a good black interior is good for(besides being hot) is selling it on ebay. Trade it for a set of heads Enjoy the pictures....

Edit: Oh and just by looking at the pictures you can tell that why you put your arm on those painted parts it would feel weird. Anybody who's paint things knows what i'm talking about. It'll always have that sticky feel(Door panels)

This is a tough decision...

Hm... MY CAR with stock grey/back interior...... or
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Somebody trying to paint theres black.... The least you could do is remove the panels for christ sakes
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[diponyou]

well i get where your going with this but i can tell just by the pictures that the right prepping was not done.

the door panels were painted while on the door still on, the arm rests left on,obviously he didnt take any time while doing this.i mean look at the damn car he was putting it in.

if the right prep work was done it would look 10 times better.

 

[DMAN302]

No offence..but if your finished product is lacking...your cause is poor preparation and trying to do too much to fast, or using an inferior product. I refinished the entire interior of my vehicle ( show car) three yrs ago, and the new finish is still factory new. Pcs need to be preped with a true preparation agent for plastic...two, three...four times, then washed with dish soap and water for it to truely grab and hold. You need to remove the grease and grime of 20yrs to get down to the raw plastic surface. Second...spray coats very lightly....three at least (lightly) to get good cover but not obstruct the true finish texture of the plastic.
It looks to me like you went fast and furious on the interior....likely not ensuring the product you were spraying left the desired look you were after...did you test first?

Hate to say it..but it appears you did a half assed job...and got half assed results.

Here is my previously black center console...two yrs and counting.

majority of my interior (all from the junkyard) was blue/black/opal....now...everything is factory smoke grey. Products from 50resto are QUALITY...and with good prep...you get quality results. Remove the parts CLEAN them..then when you think they're clean...CLEAN them again. Then one coat every hour...three..maybe four....lightly....

 

[Darkwriter77]

Ooh! I loooooove the overspray on the passenger side dash on that four-eye!

Only reason I sprayed half of my interior black was because some bonehead prior owner used a cheap, crappy flat-black rattlecan spray paint and hosed every other interior piece in the car (although they thankfully used new black carpeting instead of trying to paint that, too), and it was flaking off really badly in places and just otherwise looking like butt. I already had a lot of the interior pieces out of the car, anyway, so spraying it down while I was disassembling things was easy enough, and it came out pretty well.

Generally, interior painting works the same as exterior painting in that half of making a quality job is the materials you use, and the other half is using good prep work. The pieces I painted (with the exception of the kick panels ) were primered before I sprayed 'em, and thus far they have not scratched or rubbed off, at all (again, except for the kick panels, because I did 'em in a hurry like a moron). Even the arm rest is holding up quite nicely to daily driving abuse, right now.

I haven't motivated myself to do the doors, yet, and I'm not sure what to do about the rear seat just yet. Kinda looks odd with the porno-red door panels, seats, belts, and seat belt sleeves, but it still does kinda blend with the black, since there were black accents even on the stock red interior - now it's mostly black with red accent parts.

I might even hold off finishing it and going 100% black when I get around to repainting the exterior next year ... but not before I can afford a new 'vert top. (Black paint with a grungy, old, duct-taped-and-siliconed white top? )

 

[ill advised]

For those of you guys in love with the black interiors! Buy it! Don't try to copy. These are just pictures.... just imagine what it looks like in person! This is why you don't change the color of your interior. Also because when you rub against it or scratch it, guess what!? It shows your old color through. And besides the new paint looking to shiny and dumb. It also just doesn't look right, because its like you can see through the black paint and see the old color. All i have to say is don't paint your interior. Leave your nice clean blue/red/grey. Personally i'll take my stock grey/black any day of the week. The only thing a good black interior is good for(besides being hot) is selling it on ebay. Trade it for a set of heads Enjoy the pictures....

Edit: Oh and just by looking at the pictures you can tell that why you put your arm on those painted parts it would feel weird. Anybody who's paint things knows what i'm talking about. It'll always have that sticky feel(Door panels)

Yeah, I personally wouldn't go the paint/dye route (not much into the black anyway) but many of the jobs I've seen look much better than that.

 

[Mustang5L5]

I'm not a big fan of painting myself. I've seen some very good jobs, but i am still not totally into the idea. I know it's commonly done, but say you go out and buy a VERY nice car, but hate the interior color. Would you paint the interior in that?? I know my sister hates the tan interior in her Maxima, but painting/dying it would never be an option for that car, so why is it ok with our Mustangs?


Not saying it can't be done well, but for every GOOD interior paint job, there are 20-30 crappy paint jobs. It's something that when people think of painting interiors, they think of the bad jobs.


My black interior is all OEM peices. No paint or dye at all.

 

[Darkwriter77]

I think it comes down to the fact that not all of us on here have bottomless wallets, limitless credit, and/or a wealth of donor cars with OEM black interiors available to us. Thus, in lieu of fortune or convenience, us poor folk have to settle for painted/dyed black interiors.

 

[JGT]

DMAN, why are your floor mats are upside down?

 

[DMAN302]

Saves wear on them...car is a showqueen/garagequeen and I only turn them right side up when she's at shows. Yup she's a spoiled little thing, except for tuesdays when after our local cruise nights I take her out back and beat her like a noisy wife ( ah that statement gets me the evil wife eye every time I use it )

 

[ryan218]

wow dude all i got to say is that guy did one ultra ****ty job, there's parts you didn't even paint!! light coats you have to build up on. mines going on 7 months old and about um id say maybe 500+ miles,,,so far my only problem areas are the door sills and the kick panels at the bottom because my biddies keep smacking them as there getting in and out....

and my interior wasnt even clean or nice or anything. dirty as hell from sitting in the elements for years and years..

about 5 hours in pure prep went into doing mine, its all in the prep work..do it right.

edit...that damn glove box screw vibe-rated out again dag-gum-it

drivers door panel was red before too so don't blame it on the preexisting color.

cenet console

and it only stays glossy for a few days...then tones down.

do it the right way next time.

 

[BLOWN 5.0 FOX]

To each his own!!!! Stop degrading people for trying! granted, there are several steps you need to perform before painting ANYTHING. Whoever painted their interior above without prepping sure learned their lesson since they skipped most of the steps. DMAN and Ryan did it the RIGHT way- A+ didnt we just have a post about how expensive black interior is?? Sometimes money is better spent on engine mods, than purchasing seemingly priceless black or otherwise MINT interior regardless of color. Im debating on spraying mine. Hell, the time and aggrivation it saves from pulling and replacing the dashboard is well worth the prep time. A clean interior is a clean interior. Just my good old .02

 

[25thmustang]

Yeah this thread isn't useless or created because of one bad job. I am very anti black painted interiors, after I did mine. But it is a cheap alternative for someone who cant find or cant afford a black interior swap... Thanks for trying to degrade everyone though, your making yourself look ignorant.

Heres my crappy painted interior, looks terrible and fake right?

 

[BLOWN 5.0 FOX]

wow 25th, I retract my vote for fox of the month for that interior- how fake looking !!! haha juuuussssssstt kidding

 

[25thmustang]

Lol, my friends camera does some crazy stuff, but I can assure you it looks real in person, and FAR from tacky, or fake, or painted!

 

[MustangOwner]

THATS NOT MY CAR RETURDS! THATS SOMEBODY ELSE WHO TRIED THAT! NOT ME!!!! i'm not stupid enough to make that mistake

 

[BLOWN 5.0 FOX]

let me be the first to say you have the biggest ego as an 18 year old ..... one day its going to catch up with you. Take it easy
Did you actually expect educated thread responses? You set yourself up for a good flame....(presses the administrator assistance button)

 

[MustangOwner]

let me be the first to say you have the biggest ego as an 18 year old ..... one day its going to catch up with you. Take it easy
Did you actually expect educated thread responses? You set yourself up for a good flame....(presses the administrator assistance button)

Educated responses....hm. Nope i was clearly laughing at that guys atempt to paint

 

[BLOWN 5.0 FOX]

Theres still no need to degrade a fellow member. Everyone at some point has done something to their car that "was a good idea at the time" or "thought it would look good". Truth be told, it happens to everyone. Its the END result that matters. For example, Some/Most people consider those ricer vented fenders you have to be an eyesore...but you dont see anyone creating a thread about it. Why because other people respect one another since we all share the same love for virtually the same car. Take it as a lesson learned. This is a forum for lovers of mustangs in general. If everyone had the same tastes and ability , this forum would be obsolete and useless.

 

[MustangOwner]

Yeah this thread isn't useless or created because of one bad job. I am very anti black painted interiors, after I did mine. But it is a cheap alternative for someone who cant find or cant afford a black interior swap... Thanks for trying to degrade everyone though, your making yourself look ignorant.

Heres my crappy painted interior, looks terrible and fake right?

Clealy i don't care And about the fake question...well yes half those photos from that shoot did look fake and would look dumb in a mag. I'm a guy that points out flaws, i don't care if degrade somebody else while doing it, why don't you guys quit being such women. Anyways, i'm simply pointing out how terrible of a job that guy did at his atempt to paint his interior the oh so loved color black. Now i'm not gonna sit back and say "oh yeah he tried"... NO, he did a chit job, thats what he did. And i'm not gonna act all fake and say "yeah it does'nt look all that bad he could use some touch up". Don't try to be all fake like your black interior 25th

 

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