Porno red paint - who da best?

Okay, so I have an obnoxiously white but perfectly un-cracked dash pad in my '84 that needs to match the other porno red parts of the interior. Here's my options for painting it to match:

1. Duplicolor Vinyl & Fabric Paint;
2. Krylon Fusion (supposed to be made specifically for painting plastic stuffs);
3. A can of red/burgundy Duplicolor Van & Truck paint I have laying around;
4. Just leave the red dashmat on top of it and hope nobody notices the white peeking out from underneath;
5. "OTHER"

I'm probably still going to keep the dashmat on the dash to protect the dash pad since OEM four-eye dash pads are kinda hard to come across in quality, un-cracked form, so I'm not too terribly worried about color fade. Mainly, I just want something that will not bubble up and flake off around the edges and/or turn all powdery and rub off onto everything that brushes against it. I've used the Duplicolor Vinyl & Fabric paint before with so-so results; some parts came out good, others bubbled up and flaked off within a week or two (yes, I prepped the hell out of the surfaces), and NONE of them had a consistent sheen because the spray nozzle on that paint SUCKS ... makes a bunch of splatters and blotches.

So, uhhh ... whatchya'll tink?

Mustang5L5 said:

I vote Other.

Find an OEM red part in decent shape and use that.


I have yet to see a painted interior peice that either matched OEM peices by color or didnt start chipping away after some time.

I have ONE painted peice in my Black interioer and it's driving me nuts. It doesn't match in the sunlight, and after 3 years, it's starting to show the original color in high wear areas. I'm searching around for a MINT black peice to replace it, but it's tough.

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That's just it. There are almost ZERO factory four-eyed dash pads in good shape available anywhere, and anyone that does have one for sale wants a friggin' fortune for it. The reproduction ones are crap (quality and fitment suck and they split easy) and those dash cap things that JC Whitney sells are a joke.

Unless someone on here has a good, un-cracked RED four-eye dash pad they wanna trade me for a good, un-cracked WHITE dash pad, my only realistic option is to paint it.