Hey, so first off i'd like to say that i'm a dumba**. Okay, i bought some interior/plastic spray paint, that i ALSO used for my armrest/cupholders and my 'center piece. those look GREAT!But i HATE the ES grey interior SOOOO much, i spray painted the pieces you can't take off - or can you?!? In the pic belove shows the parts i painted. I didn't do that great of a job...Now, CAN i take that part off and swap it w/ another ES or lancer???? or sand it down to get the paint off? or am i really like screwed?

[and no thats not my lancer. dont know who's it is]

 

you could take those off. theyre just gonna require you to take off a whole lot of other pieces as well

 

the whole dash comes off dude - its just a major project. and im not sure if it is sandable without ruining the texture.....i wouldnt try if i were u, but maybe somebody else has already.....

 

Don't use sandpaper. I recommend you using scotch bright.

 

scotch bright? has anyone taken that whole dash part out? Cause i'm thinking of running to the salvage yard and seeing about buying one off a wrecked ES or OZ, or whatever i can get my hands on...its my fault i screwed it up - so i'll just suck it up and pay if i have to. I just wanna know if i can take it apart.lol.

 

Yeah, but like you said - i gotta KNOW HOW to take it apart...i didnt see how to do that, when i took out the center console, bottom piece [under the ac controls] and the long piece w/ the clock in the middle of it...i didnt see any screws...?

 

Just paint over it with black?

 

sand... +paint = a happy chris. good luck man

 

that sucks man, that is why i am afraid to diy my interior

 

well, the color is dark charcoal metallic. got it at autozone, and something TOLD Me not to f*ckin spray that first shot, but i did...shouldve been more smart and painting whatever i wanted AFTER i got it out of the car first. but won't sanding it ruin the texture? and be like a whiteish color? or what? im calling salvage yards tomorrow just in case..

 

sanding will remove the texture depending on what grit and how long you sand the piece. the color of it after sanding wont matter since youll be painting over it. from my own experience, hand-sanding the texture down to smoothness took a painfully long time, since i wanted to have a smooth fiberglass-looking interior paint job. there were several times that my diy job didnt come out as i wanted to, but all i did was just sand it back down to the primer and repaint. since you want to keep the texture on it, you should be careful not to sand beyond the primer color.

 

yea for a job like this, or any job for that matter, take your time and do a lot of researching on it. read what others went through and if you cant find any info, just ask, especially if its a diy. the idea or spraying it while its in the car seems kinda just.. wrong lol

oh yea and if your going to a junk yard to get those pieces off the car, might as well look at how its done (if they do it for you. never had to go to one so dunno how it works. or maybe its already takn off. o well i dunno )

 

I'd just sand, clean, repaint. But I'd also never spray anything in the car. You WILL eventually start spotting points where the fine mist from the paint settled on other parts of your car, no matter how careful you are. If you're lucky it'll have dried and landed in a dust-like form rather than landing wet and drying on other parts of the interior. I'd remove, sand (or whatever other abrasive you prefer), clean, reprime, repaint, replace. You'll be able to spray with a lot more precision, and you'll see it in the results.

 

always taKE it out before u paint man.. comon thats just sence... and also, never EVER listen to the losers at action auto ectect.

 

get a haynes manual or go to ur dealer service dept. and ask for a blowout diagram of your whole dash. It should give you a good idea of how to take ur whole dash apart.

Good luck with your project, and hey even tho u messed up a little, i still give you props for trying to do something custom