Painting Interior Trim

Steveman · August 1, 2008

I am getting kinda tired of the blandness of my black interior with black seats. Everything is black except for the silver trim accents in the doors and on the steering wheel. Now here's my idea. I want to take the black trim piece that surrounds the DIC controls on the left, and the black trim that surrounds the radio on the right, and paint them a high gloss piano black color. Do you guys understand what color I am talking about? Its the color you see on most grand pianos, the high gloss black. I want to do that to those two piece's and maybe to the door trim and the steering wheel trim pieces. What do you guys think?

Trucker Mike · August 1, 2008

Don't do it. Painted plastic trim is for show cars that don't get touched. I used to do this for people, and even doing it right (sanding, primer, paint, clear, buff), the paint would come off eventually.

If anything, get some nice overlays or something.

2000DV4.8 · August 1, 2008

Don't do it. Painted plastic trim is for show cars that don't get touched. I used to do this for people, and even doing it right (sanding, primer, paint, clear, buff), the paint would come off eventually.

If anything, get some nice overlays or something.

Agreed. And most of the time, interior paint looks kind of cheesy too.

MHeffe · August 1, 2008

I have done it one some of my other cars and it always comes off and looks like crap...

AllBlkdOut07 · August 3, 2008

years ago I had interior pieces painted on a Saturn and it held up just fine, and they were done in white. You just have to know how to prep and paint it right.

Zembonez · August 3, 2008

years ago I had interior pieces painted on a Saturn and it held up just fine, and they were done in white. You just have to know how to prep and paint it right.

Umberto will paint anything! Look at his exhaust!

Steveman · August 4, 2008

Ok well thanks for the feedback. I guess I'll just deal with the blandness I knew I should have gotten tan seats. At least that would have brightened up the interior a little bit. Oh well that means its time for a new sound system!

AllBlkdOut07 · August 4, 2008

Ok well thanks for the feedback. I guess I'll just deal with the blandness I knew I should have gotten tan seats. At least that would have brightened up the interior a little bit. Oh well that means its time for a new sound system!

You can paint interior pieces with sucess if you know what you'e doing, or just have somone else do it.

Oh, here's a small pic albeit a tiny one, you can see some of the interior pieces on my Saturn that were painted white.

All black interior FTW!!! That's one of the biggest reasons I bought a Chevy Silverado, I wanted an ALL BLACK interior, consider yourself fortunate you have that!

And as far as me painting anything... yeah, you should see all the other things I have painted too.

SoCalChris · August 4, 2008

I think if it's done right, it can look pretty good. Another option to try is recovering some of the panels on your doors, that also looks good if done right. Check out these threads for some ideas, and to see what I mean about recovering the panels on your doors.

http://www.fullsizechevy.com/forums/genera...t-write-up.html

http://www.fullsizechevy.com/forums/genera...d-interior.html

All black interior FTW!!! That's one of the biggest reasons I bought a Chevy Silverado, I wanted an ALL BLACK interior, consider yourself fortunate you have that!

That's the one thing I hate about my truck. Everything inside is the dark graphite color, except the headliner. Why did GM put a beige headliner in an otherwise all dark interior? It drives me nuts. Ever since I've had the truck, I've been considering redoing the headliner so that it matches.

TedGEXT · August 4, 2008

This is one of the main reasons I went with the EXT. To me there is nothing bland about this:

AllBlkdOut07 · August 4, 2008

I think if it's done right, it can look pretty good. Another option to try is recovering some of the panels on your doors, that also looks good if done right. Check out these threads for some ideas, and to see what I mean about recovering the panels on your doors.

http://www.fullsizechevy.com/forums/genera...t-write-up.html

http://www.fullsizechevy.com/forums/genera...d-interior.html

All black interior FTW!!! That's one of the biggest reasons I bought a Chevy Silverado, I wanted an ALL BLACK interior, consider yourself fortunate you have that!

That's the one thing I hate about my truck. Everything inside is the dark graphite color, except the headliner. Why did GM put a beige headliner in an otherwise all dark interior? It drives me nuts. Ever since I've had the truck, I've been considering redoing the headliner so that it matches.

Same here, the light grey headliner/visors look weird, they could've at least used a medium grey.

Lincoln30 · August 4, 2008

I want to do my headliner and a-pillar trim in Alcantara (ultra-suede) to match the ebony interior but there are a ton of small plastic parts that will need to get painted to make this work. The shop I use will paint all this using the correct procedure but I gotta figure that they won't be able to prep every single little part perfectly and that could be an issue? I'll probably do this when I do the stereo so the headliner will be dropped once for recovering and Dynamat the inside of the roof. The part I'm most concerned about holding paint is the trim piece around the sunroof.