I have have spare gray dash that I could use in a '88 with tan interior, if I could change the color using vinyl paint.

Has anyone had success making this change from gray to tan using vinyl paint?

Thanks for the help.

I've done it on multiple other parts. The trick is a good cleaner (Prep-Sol), primer, paint and clear coat. I use DuPont Vinyl paint. Two coats of paint and two coats of flat clear. You don't want to lay it on too thick or you fill in the texture. When I need a new interior part, I don't bother with finding the right color. I just paint it.

Obviously its easier to do it out of the car

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contact josef644, i believe he's done it.

or look in his build thread in the construction zone.
https://www.fiero.nl/forum/Forum3/HTML/000132.html

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I've done gray to black and it worked well. Trick is to clean clean clean first!

the best product I've used is FUSION. It actually melts it'self into the plastic . Problem is limited colors.

I used 3 coats duplicolor vinyl paint satin black on my grey dash and it came out great. Just make sure you clean and let it dry for a long time before handling. Make sure you get a satin or flat color, it will look stock looking. A glossy paint will make it look very tacky and ricer-ish

I have found that paint to be weak and takes forever to dry. I paint my console covers and anything else inside with Dupli-Color Perfect Match. It dries suuuperfast and very durable. The most durable and by far the best paint for anything interior fiero is Rust-oleum high preformance in the SILVER can, not that total trash in the white can, rubbish. I just don't like the spray nozzle on the rust-o. You have to spray totally different than the Dupli and its awesome nozzle. Silver can rust-o has kinda limited colors as well but Home Depot/Lowes carries every color. I have tried every single rattle can paint you can name. Stay away from VHT, its a joke. High temp paint with ceramic in it works real well too but seems to act exactly like the vinyl paint. Just fragile as heck. Let me know if you want pics of my two GT's interior. One is all Dupli-Color and the other is all Rust-o silver can. There is a freaking science to painting the plate covers (shifter, ac area, speedo). If you don't do exactly this you will get the strangest pinhole sized ZERO paint areas that are perfect circles. Clean, clean, prep, prime 2/3 coats let each coat only dry 10 mins before apply next coat, paint 2 coats same 10 mins, prime AGAIN with 1 med light coat over paint as a 50% coverage or so, finish with 2 or 3 good medium coats of paint. Clear if you want after 10 mins and no longer than an hour. I never clear it looks ehhh with clear imo. I LOVE Dupli's metallic colors for interior, they look dope. I used BFM0316 (Ford Mocha Frost Metallic) for my tan GT plates. sweeeeetness!!! BTW only paint the carpets with the Vinyl paint, rest of them are just too hard. Lemme know if ya want some pics.

I've done gray to blue with a SEM product. Worked very well.

The Fiero Store sells a spray paint that some have said works very well. I've used it on hard plastic parts and was very satisfied with it.

http://fierostore.com/Produ...rowse.aspx?d=206&p=1

I also have done it with duplicolor multiple coats LIGHT COATS! stuff likes to run if too thick if I would do it again I would get krylon for the plastics. In my experience it didn't like to stick as well as I liked but for some odd reason it did create a odd pattern on the ashtray doors that I love but could never do again if I lived to be 1000. Clean clean clean is a must on this so don't go cheap on cleaners lol. I went from tan to gloss black contrary to many I like the gloss because after it dries it looks like there is armor all on it and brand new but I'm too lazy to constantly coat my car with armor all lol just a swipe with a clean lint free cloth and PRESTO it looks just detailed by a pro using top shelf cleaners.

quote Originally posted by jake88gt: Make sure you get a satin or flat color, it will look stock looking. A glossy paint will make it look very tacky and ricer-ish

Good point.

I've seen interior vinyl painted black in several local Fieros and I didn't like them at all. The black was too shiny and IMO totally ruined the interior of the cars.

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I changed a tan dash to a beechwood dash using PPG paint. I removed the dash from the car. The PPG was ready to shoot premixed. I used a product of theirs to promote adhesion.


I had tried to do it first with the Fiero Store rattle cans. It was not very pretty. PPG store told me it was to hot to try it with the spray cans. I used lacquer thinner to remove the spray can paint. This took all of the original tan off as well as the spray can stuff.


Use a good quality latex glove to keep this 'wash' out of the skin on your hands. Your hands will thank you.
The PPG product:


The Fiero Store stuff is good quality stuff, but just for small parts such as 'A' or 'B' pillar mouldings. I did a speedo pod rear housing with it, and it was fine. I wouldn't try to use it for anything larger than that piece. The rear cover is sitting on an original beechwood front. They are the same exact color. I also painted a 3rd brakelight housing as the beechwood pieces are rare and almost non existent. Any gray piece can be changed to beechwood pretty easy.


This is as nice a dash as you can find anywhere. The actual spray only took about 15 min's including cleaning the spray gun:


My camera flash is making the dash look a little light tan, but it is all the correct 88 beechwood.


Hope this helps
-Joe

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quote Originally posted by josef644: My camera flash is making the dash look a little light tan, but it is all the correct 88 beechwood. Hope this helps -Joe

That looks great!

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I drove this car to Ruckus last year. There were several who wanted to take a look at it in person.

clean clean clean. Then use a good vinyl/ plastic spray. When MarHyde made vinyl spray years ago, we even used it on seats in used cars and it held up very well.

Just a heads up. Previous owner of my 86 painted the dash gloss black. It looks great. Until the sunlight hits it, then the glare on the windshield is so bad I can barely see. I had to make my own dash mat for really sunny days. Just a heads up. Good luck!

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