My friend at Chris's Collision in West Orange just finished painting my dash trim pieces in GG just like the car.

Tomorrow morning they'll install them; afterwards I'll update this post.







there not sanded or buffed yet.

what you guys think?











We'll my friend was busy this morning to finish them, so I took all the pieces home and started sanding them myself. I cut the sand paper in 1"x2" squares and started slowly sanding, actually im not really pushing its more like your feeling the paint with the sandpaper underneath your fingers, you can actually feel any imperfections with this sand paper. (hey 3M how about a sponsorship? LOL)
next Saturday they'll get buffed and installed, here are some more pics.


this is the sand paper that was used, its made for dry sanding, I like dry sanding because you can see what your sanding, when wet you cant see till it's to late.



your looking to remove all the dried dust particles and any fish eyes , you want a nice smooth looking finish.


almost finished sanding the radio surround piece, in the tight areas just use the corner of the sand paper, with little or no pressure.


after almost 4 hours their just about finished, the light and dark spots are the dust residue that's not cleaned off yet.
they still need to be buffed .


here's what it should look like when the sanding is finished, the whole piece should be uniform in finish, when it get's polished it should have a nice even wet look without any ripples, or waves. her name is Daisy


Almost looks like the stock color after its sanded in this pic




i assume if I had to pay for this and they charge around $80.00 hour, it took me 4 hours to sand taking my time, a body shop would not take this long, and the finish wont be this good unless you pay for it, plus painting and they still need to be buffed and reinstalled, don’t forget the removal its got to cost at least 4-500 dollars???


today is 3-20-08-
i just got the radio surround back today, it looks and feels f-ing great.



i tried some diffrent shots with my treo 700p




walk by shot







parked in garage













here you can sort of see the purple








Today I finished all the pieces

this was used for the first buff



just dot it all over



start buffing with light pressure, dont stay in one spot to long or it will burn the paint







after compound you start the glaze just place it all over



this is the glaze that was used, again 3M (no they never called me)



so here they are what everyone is waiting for, installed pics.
a little dusty but overall they look Fantastic












































so what you think?

 

cool! i wanna either do that color to mine or a textured gg color, looks good!

 

Can't wait to see the pics!

 

how much did it cost you?

 

he didn't charge me, but tomorrow i'll ask how much something like this would of cost, and let you know.

 

Looks good! I would have done the same, a long time ago if I had any color other than white!

 

Oh awesome, much better than mine (with a can). I need to look into getting mine flat-blacked professionally!!

 

thanks guys

 

just to let you know, its your fault im doing this.

 

that looks like it came out great. i was debating on painting my radio/HVAC surrond and the piece around the shifter. update us ASAP. i also have a GG, so this will work out perfectly for me to see what it will look like

 

+1 on a flat black... that would be hot

 

I was thinking about doing the same with mine, it's nice to see that you did it first.

 

I painted the center raido/climate control piece flat black, at first I thought it was nice b/c i saw it in JDM EVO RS but then it looks cheap to me after a while, I want to do something gray or silver like stock's and GG is another option for me too.

 

i am impressed!

 

Looks perfect!