Old Interior Plastics Help?

If you do the prep work and use a good dye, this is not a "ghetto" solution. Just using regular Krylon to spray your faded red parts black is not doing it right.

Without seeing the panels this will be hard to answer. Here's a pick of the dash using Dupli-Color Grease & Wax Remover and Dupli-Color Vinyl Fabric. At first my son thought we were wasting our time. When he seen the dash done he really liked it.

Leprosy is a bad look.

So what type of option are you looking for? A garaged parts car? A interior donor from Seattle? An NOS stash? Short of them, I still say use Eastwood for best results.

The Eastwood Company specializes in restoration products and tools. If there is a right way to do it, they probably sell it. Restorers know this place well.

several things:
* Eastwood or even Duplicolor dye products work well when done properly and last a long time. even in high wear areas. soap water, then wax grease remover, repeat 2 more times front AND back. My experience is the flake/peel happens at the extreme edges, so spraying around to the back a good 4-5" is critical. Also Bully Dog brand adhesion promoter will help tremendously.

* scuffs and scratches: take a red or green Scot-brite scuff pad and 220 sand paper and knock down the high spots and edges. then scuff with the pad. go about 6" around the scratch(es) to blend it out. If its deep you can get a vinyl repair kit and use the adhesive/glue as a filler. Works really well.

* on those rear side panels where they aren't going to be seeing alot of contact consider using PLastic-Dip spraay its rubbery, fills sratches/gouges well and if you are really OCD about the prep and give the entire panel a red scotch-brite scuffing it will last a long time. If it gets nicked or peels, simply peel it all off and respray.

* speaker holes: take some 1/8" masonite panel board form lowes/HDepot, make a paper cardboard template of the entire dressed area. make 2, one left, one right, trace to hardboard. cut to the INSIDE of your line by an additional 1/16-1/8". use HD velcro or little earth magnets on the corners and top bottom in the center. Cover in contrasting fabirc or speaker grill cloth that is UV treated. Viola' speaker holes covered. Oh!: if you do grill cloth, only spray the 3m Super 90 adhesive on the BACK of the hardboard. WRap and pull tight. If you have an Arros brand hand stapler they make 1/16" x 1/4" staples to make it secure. Depending on where you live, No spray glue holds up here in Texas.

Lastly on arm rests console lids visors and even some door panel tops,best to cover in new fabrics. May be worth a $100 to have an uphostry shop do those right.

~Rob

Putting a padded or at least covered MDF panel over the hole would be a nice looking solution. I would hold them on with the domed washer upholstery screws. I had to add one of the screws to the speaker panels in front doors, and it does not look out of place.