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On my front bar there is a black plastic unpainted section with Skyline written on it. It's gotten scuffed and faded and I once stupidly sanded part of it trying to even up the colour.

Anyway I was thinking about painting it and asked at the hardware shop near my work (which just happens to be owned by a fellow forums members father) and got steered towards the auto section.

I found this stuff called Forever Black.

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There is a whole range of this stuff for tyres and ute trays and all kinds of black stuff. Basically it's a dye. They say it's the same kind that the car manufacturers use.

I should have taken a pic of the before but I didn't have very high hopes and forgot about it. It has done a great job and here are a couple of pics.

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I thought it was common knowledge to use black dye to restore faded plastic items (like door handles on the interior of R32's, and rubber mouldings around windows).

you can also use coloured vinyl dye (which you can get in supercheap etc) if you need to match coloured bits... or colour your bits. Its not as accurate as the black stuff though, so if you use one application of red dye on your bits, they may turn into pink bits. :P

Make sure with any of these dyes that once you spray em on, you don't touch the plastic till they dry completely, as they turn soft while the solvent in the dye gets into them (which will leave fingerprints etc).

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