Interior Modificiations

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- Rick Legge
  
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19 years ago

Thu, May 20, 2004 9:21 PM

I've been looking online recently at upgraded and tricked out mitsubishi eclipses because I am getting one very soon. I have seen a lot of color themed interiors in which many interior dash panels are of a color other than the stock dash IE blue, red, yellow, etc.. How do they do this? I have looked at dash kits, but seeing as how they are almost stickers I do not beleive they are just dash kits in the car. It seems the entire panel is a different color...did they paint it? or did they order a different colored piece?

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- Theo
  
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posted
19 years ago

Thu, May 20, 2004 10:33 PM

Painted

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- Lordy
  
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posted
19 years ago

Fri, May 21, 2004 1:05 AM

Yes, and painted dashboards are not 'trick', they are utter chav shit.

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posted
19 years ago

Fri, May 21, 2004 7:37 AM

depends lordy, it really does, I wouldnt write them all off like that, if done right it can look good.

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posted
19 years ago

Fri, May 21, 2004 8:22 AM

Only if you're someone who's job it is to sell Interior Paint to people.

Cool, why not go the whole hog and have bare painted metal showing as well for a total 1970's feel.

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- MeatballTurbo
  
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posted
19 years ago

Fri, May 21, 2004 8:38 AM

Proper vinyl dye type paint works well on dashboard and actually colours the plastic, it can't crack or flake.

As long as the rest of the re-trim matches it can look good. Cheap chav spray on crap flakes and looks s**te.

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posted
19 years ago

Fri, May 21, 2004 8:41 AM

They could have had a custom dash done, either in Vinyl or fibreglass then painted, or they could ahve just dyed the standard vinyl/plstics.

Equally they could have had it professionaly covered in Suede/leather/wood veneer/alcantera It varies. depends on how much you want, what can you afford, how long can you wait, and how much can you do yourself?

if you are a dab hand with fibreglass, filler and a spraygun you could design your own totally outlandish custom dash in any way you want. But get it wrong, and it will look like toal and utter shit.