The stock "carbon fiber" dash trim gets really dirty and gunky and it just looked plain ugly when the interior was cleaned. Now it looks slick and clean

 

Wow, that does look really nice. I was not expecting this. Care to write a how to?

 

Sure ill try to get some additional pics but its fairly easy to remove

 

Looks good , I agree , I replaced mine last year with one from an evo 9

 

It's not that hard to do, once you get it out, sand it to remove the ugly paint, IIRC I used 600 grit when I wet sanded it and after its all cleaned and air dried, spray paint it with your favorite spray paint. I used Duplicolor flat black car interior paint.

 

I was going to paint it but when I saw it looked pretty decent after getting rid of all the old coating. I just used a cloth and some multipurpose cleaner and rubbed against it until you get whats in the last pic.


But getting it painted black looks great....some RA's get the trim black from stock

 

Do you have pics? I am looking to do the same thing.

Thanks

 

I painted mine black. i couldn't sand mine (coming from a 2004 Ralliart) because it had this fake cf overlay on it. I'm still looking to get the cf interior from an MR evo.

 

^ yea mine same thing, fake CF overlay. feels a tiny bit rubbery.

 

i wrapped mine in the 3m dinoc cf vinyl
not the best photo but here it is

 

You dont need to actually sand it. You just need time and patience to rub off all the carbon fiber layer and it will look like the pics i posted

 

i second the how to.

 

I know I'm commenting on an old thread, but I just plasti-dipped over mine with the cf coating still intact. It sill peels off the faux cf coating too if I get sick of the plasti-dip, quite easily. I got a matte red leather look when I only held the nozzle down half-way on the final two coats (I did not like the shinier smooth red that it looked like before this step). The silver part was painted using a ford color, sage green and a whole lotta clear coat.

 

Carbon Wrap