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Old 03-26-2022, 02:22 PM   #1
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Painting/Dying Interior Parts

I've done a good bit of interior dying, both vinyl upholstery and hard plastic parts on newer stuff. I've had great results. Now on my '95 I have some pieces I bought in the wrong color I want to match up, the glovebox door and the console which is the early style. Both have what appears to be a vinyl type coating, glovebox door face and console lid. That material retains dirt more, it's softer. Feels like you could dig your nails into it, kinda gummy feeling. I think bead blasting would be the best way to prep, but I don't have the means. I was thinking to sand on it all. I use an adhesion promoter on plastic and that's what I'll do here. I'm also going to use SEM vinyl and fabric dye.

Has anyone dyed any interior parts on these year trucks? If so, how did you go about it? Do you think my plans will work? I'd rather have them not match than have it start to fail. Any tips I'd be grateful to hear
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Old 03-26-2022, 05:31 PM   #2
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Re: Painting/Dying Interior Parts

I did an entire dash in blue from grey along with some other dash trim parts. I used a cleaner from SEM then their dye and it worked great, even on the soft stuff.
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Old 03-26-2022, 07:03 PM   #3
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Re: Painting/Dying Interior Parts

Thanks. Good to know. I'll go with what they offer. And blue is my color. Did you use the blue like GM's? Mine's a '95 and I want as close to that as I can get. I've only seen a really small chip chart and it seemed they had a few darker blues. Do you know which one you used?
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Old 03-26-2022, 07:31 PM   #4
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Re: Painting/Dying Interior Parts

My bad, I used ColorBond not SEM. I used their cleaner solvent then GM Navy Blue (103) for the color. It's close but if you put it up next to an original part, there is a difference. Maybe it's the color, maybe it's 27 years of sun and chemical cleaners and protectants. Hard to say but it's close enough.
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Old 03-27-2022, 06:55 AM   #5
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Re: Painting/Dying Interior Parts

Yeah, close is good enough. The only way my parts will match is if I dyed the whole interior. 100% exactly correct dye wouldn't match chit! The front doors on my Suburban are way bleached out. I may just do everything up front. It's a panel truck for me, so everything else is cargo area
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