Just wondering how well your painted interior is holding up to every day use?
I am looking to do the full out sanding it all down (for the smooth fiberglass look) and primer and more sanding more primer ect and the paint and clear coat.. the hole 9 yards... but i wanted to hear what you guys think about this? for an every day daily driver... will it just end up flaking off of me? or will it last?
And with the main dash being softer... will it just crack?
and how does it hold up to freezing cold temps? for the most par this car will be in my heated garage but there are times when it will be sitting out side in -25 degree weather for a day or so...
any feed back would be great thanks
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mines holding up great, but in your case everyday use? its gonna get beat up.
i wouldnt want to spend all that time and money makin my interior like that for it to be a DD...just my opinion tho.
I did the whole nine yards to mine. Sanded all the texture, primered, sanded, primered, sanded, painted, sanded, painted, wet sanded, painted, cleared, sanded, cleared, wet sanded, cleared, LOL
That really makes it look difficult when you type it out, lol. Anyways, being in Chicago, the summer can get ridiculously hot, and winter can get ridiculously cold. The interior has held up perfectly. No blemishes, hazing, fogging, etc. I haven't done touch ups or anything to it either. As long as you sand it properly and put on the primers, paints, and clears evenly, it'll hold up fine.
Ive never had much trouble with chipping or anything. As long as the pieces are prepped right they should last a long time depending on what kind of paint you use.
My car is also a DD and aside from the top dash (DO NOT SAND THE VINYL lol) it's holding up very well, even as a DD.
i did just the parts that u touch really, the center consol and door panels and after 2 years its holding up well. jsut make sure ure prep work is good, u dont sad the panels too thin and u wax tehm regularly to avoud scratching
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Mine's been done for nearly 6 years now and I haven't had to repaint a single piece.
I was very mindful when doing it to only do things that don't get abused. Check out my website to see pics of what I've done. It's all stuff that's not going to get handled on a regular basis. I wouldn't do things like the center console or door panels where seatbelts are going to rub against them or the sills where you're going to step on them. You have to expect that sort of stuff to get scuffed and not hold up over time.
The only part on mine that's marked up is the steering column right under the keys, for obvious reasons.
yea i did my interior in my DD about a year ago and didnt take all the steps that you would normally cause it was my DD and it def. has alot of wear especially on my center console where my arm rubs so take all these guy's advice and do it the right way if you want it to last
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thank you all...
and yea i just plan on doing things like around the radio and smaller parts like that.. definatly would not do that peice along the bottom of the door... i could only imagine how bad it would look
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blue car (R.I.P) - 240whp @7psi..
silver car - 305whp 315lbs.tq @15psi (91 Octane) or 420whp & 425lbs.TQ @20psi (94 octane+Alcohol Injection)
All dynos run on a Mustang dyno
Year and a half and only problem I had was when my seat belt got caught between the doorsill and the door shutting and it chipped the doorsill.
Other than that it's as perfect as the day I did it! No reason why it won't last...just take care of it. Wax is very important!
Prep work as well...I used a plastic adhesive between the primer and the plastic and that seemed to help?
Eh...old man with a Corvette now...it was bound to happen sooner rather than later right?
I just finished spraying about 90% of my interior. I did everything except the door sills, like you guys said, for obvious reasons. Doesnt mean I dont want to
I actually just sprayed on the primer, about 2 decent coats, then sprayed on the paint pretty thick (like 5, 6 coats). I'm still in the process of reassembling the interior panels, but the ones I have in now are holding up good (thatd be the panels behind the backrest of the backseat and the 2 big side-panels next to the rear passengers). And those 2 big panels have held up to my seatbelts swinging around and bangin into them. Once we run the wiring for my pwr windows, I can reinstall my console and see how that holds up with me leanin on it.
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I dont know why everyone says not to paint the panels that run under the door. Its just like exterior paint on a car, yea your shoes might scuff it, but the scuffs will just rub right off. I've had mine painted for over 2 years and they are fine. My whole interior is done. Everything is still perfect except for a couple peices that were not done correctly the first time. Had to redo the upper dash because i didnt remove vinyl. I'm looking for 00+doors because I painted over that vinyl too. And I also painted over the vinyl on the arm rest too. All those peices have been done except for the door panels. For the arm rest you can just rip the vinyl off and there is a very smooth plastic underneath. Just sand it down a little bit and it can be painted. there is like 4 pinholes that can just be filled with body filler. For the upper dash you can rip off the vinyl, but its very hard and will take you a while. Might come off easier if you steam it or maybe use heat gun to loosen the adhesive. after that just scuff it up real good and lay some fiberglass resin on it and lay some fleece on it and stretch it lightly arround the edges. Then let that dry and cure to the plastic. Then after it dries and it firmly attached to the dash just soak resin onto the fleece from the top. If you dont let the resin dry all the way underneat the fleece and let it attach well it will shrink and lift off the plastic. Then sand the fleece with a very low grit sandpaper to get it decently smooth and lay out some body filler or duraglass on it. For the door panels like I said above just get the all plastic ones (On cavs its 00+, not sure about fires though). Also if you want to do the rear decklid you can just rip the carpet off and lay glass on the cardboard/wood @!#$ underneath. as for just about everything else you can just sand the plastic down. Its not hard at all, you should do the whole interior man. It's a fun job and you will love the compliments. Just about every person that rides in my car cant stop talking about the interior.
I have my whole thing done with a rattle can and its held up for 2 years. I'm redoing it this year, but only because I got a new interior and wanted to switch up the look. I would say to make damn sure your prep work is as close to perfect as you can make it. Thats 90% of what will determine the longivity of the peices.
the lemur wrote: I would say to make damn sure your prep work is as close to perfect as you can make it. Thats 90% of what will determine the longivity of the peices.
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I cannot stress this enough. Prep work will play the biggest part in whether or not your paint job sticks up.
Mine's been done for three years now, and has held up very well. I'm in the process of redoing it, and I fully expect it to last three years (easily) again.
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