Jump to content
SAU Community

Diy. How Do I Get A High Gloss Paino Black Finish On Interior Parts

Howaitonaito

By Howaitonaito,
in Exterior & Interior Styling

 Share

Recommended Posts

Howaitonaito Mentor

Howaitonaito

Posted
Posted

Got various interior trim parts i want to get to a high gloss piano black finish. Have to diy because i cant afford to have it done by a pro. Has anyone on here donw it and be able to give me a sense of direction in what to do/what to get/process and what not. Any help would be appreciated greatly.

Carbon 34 Grand Master

Carbon 34

Posted
Posted (edited)

Got various interior trim parts i want to get to a high gloss piano black finish. Have to diy because i cant afford to have it done by a pro. Has anyone on here donw it and be able to give me a sense of direction in what to do/what to get/process and what not. Any help would be appreciated greatly.

On 34

Lots of wet fine sandpaper , pop out the lens on climate control, unbolt the control knob, pop out red and blue rings and clear one

depending on what state its in now? Painted or ?

Once sanded back

Wax and grease remover

Rinse in fresh water let dry till 100% dry

Tack rag wipe down

Spray with plastic pore paint ( kinda a primer for plastics ) then paint with primer grey

And mist in primer black , dry

Wet sand it again with 400 ish wet paper

The high and low spots will apear the grey and black will show it, sand till even

Do not use power or air sander ,hands only

Once your even , repeat paint process again

Only lighter coats

Sand again 400 grit

Satisfied with smooth even surface

Repeat process with black epoxy primer , two pack gloss black dry but not over 50c or the dash can warp

Wet sand that , 800grit

DNA diamond clear coat for final coat

Let dry in uv , warm , dust free area a couple days before handling parts

That is about 100-500 buck depending on what you can do and your tools to spray it lots of labour

Budget around 50 bucks

Or sand back, paint plastic primer

Flat black and then rattle can clear

Or water clear epoxy dificult but unreal clear

Edited by Carbon 34

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
 Share
Go to topic listing


  • Similar Content

  • Latest Posts

    • GTSBoy
      R32 GTR EV? The leaf of the Godzilla's!

      By GTSBoy · Posted

      H2 (for cars) will never happen. It's not reasonable for any number of reasons. It's also not reasonable for almost all of the industrial uses that the fanbois say that it will be used for, again for a large number of reasons. There are some cases where it will be good. But, even those will be massively hampered by the economics. The only way that H2 can be economic is if we somehow manage to get from where we are to the other side of the economic-valley-of-death in which no-one can operate. You need there to be sufficient renewable generated electricity to be available so that it is effectively free. Once you are there, you can do whatever the hell you want and hang the efficiency. But until you get there, the ever diminishing value of electricity makes it harder and harder to encourage businesses to build the new generation capacity, and they will simply stop investing in generation projects. (I kinda think there needs to be just government money spent on building the required capacity in a non-commercial way, similar to how the first fossil fueled grids were built, as national-government owned utilities. And probably some nuclear in there to start. But this all should have started 10-15 years ago to avoid the chasm of death that we face right now). Synth fuels will be much more likely, but will only occur is there is at least some renewable H2 production, because you need H2 to do it. And you need stacks of free (or at least extraordinarily cheap) energy because assembling molecules back into fuels is exactly the opposite process to burning the fuel, and the reason we burn fuels is because there is so much energy squeezed into each molecule. So you're somewhat subject to the same economic valley of death problem as above anyway. That is unless people are willing to pay the current equivalent of $5 or $6 per litre of petrol-ish liquid fuels. Can you imagine it? The squealing at $2 now is bad enough.
    • PranK
      R34 "maintenance reminder lights" and mysterious voice

      By PranK · Posted

      This is so cool. Get a dashcam that records audio and hopefully you'll catch it.  Maybe there's a brand or some kind of markings on the back ? Are the pics hand drawn? I love it so much.
    • PranK
      R32 GTR EV? The leaf of the Godzilla's!

      By PranK · Posted

      Hahaha yep, point(s) taken. I just like seeing different things and an EV in an R32 is pretty different. I'm not on the EV band wagon, I'm waiting for synthetic fuels or hydrogen personally. 
    • PranK
      Use text replace function to auto-link to referred threads?

      By PranK · Posted

      No, only I do the disciplining.
    • Kinkstaah
      Stock rb25det neo questions

      By Kinkstaah · Posted

      I mean it's probably likely that people overestimate their skills in dialling in a setup and noticing the changes. I had SK shocks and springs, and added heavier springs and got them revalved by Sydney Shocks to suit based upon what I told them I wanted the car to handle like. I got back a completely different feeling set of shocks, which probably (?) feel great on track but holy hell are they rough on tram tracks and the like. The shock dyno actually looks pretty similar to Shockworks (from what I can surmise from a screenshot of a youtube video - and my dyno printout...) Truth be told I doubt I'd be any faster or slower with either setup, or camber/castor combination. I also had whiteline eccentric castor bushes up front of my R34. I removed them and put in poly non-adjustable ones to soothe my OCD (nobody ever set the castor the same side to side, and it'd be near impossible to do) and be happy the wheel is centered in the well now for clearance reasons. Yes I wanted it to move 1mm 'back' :p I've effectively set my castor back to stock, negating all the benefits of that which is supposedly massive. I've probably also altered toe and camber in a negative (detrimental) way. I can't tell any difference steering the car.
×
×
  • Create New...