Wednesday 4 July 2012

Painted Interior Plastic Trims

Previously, I had wrapped my center air-vent in brushed aluminium 3M Di-Noc to match my silver side air-vents (details about this can be found here). However, I now like the gloss black versions that come on the new megane 265, I think it looks much better so decided to gloss black some interior trims myself. I decided to paint the following parts in gloss black:
  • Center and Side dashboard air-vent trims
  • Interior Door Handles (possibly exterior handles too)
  • Centre Console
I had some time last week and weather was good so managed to complete the air-vent trims. The interior door handles and centre console is to follow maybe sometime next week.

I'm also thinking to paint the lower-section of the carbon-style dashboard trim. The lower-section is factory painted in silver. I'm thinking to paint this in yellow and planning to do this end of the month. (***UPDATE*** This has now been painted, pics can be found here)

Below are pics of my DIY painting of the air-vent trims. I was after a deep-gloss finish, which comes from several layers of wet sanded clear-coat.

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3 comments:

  1. Mohammed McLord8 July 2012 at 23:18

    Man, Do you read your mind ?
    I have already planned to do this. It is like the "Bose Edition". But I decided to go with Gloss Vinyl instead of Sanding and Painting.. Good Job with the painting :)

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    1. Ahmed9 July 2012 at 08:46

      :) still got few more interior bits to paint. I was initially considering gloss black vinyl wrapping but when i received the sample vinyl, I was not happy with the shine on it. Specially since these pieces of trims are always in your vision. I was after a really nice shiny surface without any texture. So decided to do a paint job on it. You're correct this was first introduced on the bose edition and now also comes on the new megane 265

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  2. Ewajoh5 August 2023 at 00:06

    This was lovely thanks for writing this

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