How hard is it to rip out the vinyl (dash, center console, door panels, A-Pillars, etc) contained in the interior of an '89 CRX Si, painting it all (properly) and reinstalling it..? I'd imagine that someone has done this before..

-CR1X

 

I did it to my 92 cx, the hard part is the painting.
It dosent take very long if you know how everything
is put togeter. Remember how to put it back together.

 

aye not another post abotu this....

the paint will look ok till it starts to chip...and it WILL start to chip, then it will look like ****....
resisit the urge..

 

ooo i did this back in high school dont do it if u really wanna customize your interior get it done professionally

 

make sure only to use vynl die if your doing it yourself and dont generously go over the parts, it will take like a million light coats to save you from chip hell

 

if it will chip off then dont..
what color you going for?

 

I was planning on doing like 3 coats of white primer, than like 2 coats of pearl white, than 2-3 coats of a fairly translucent candy blue.. the effect I'm going for is an electron blue pearl to match the exterior, and it should come fairly close.. I'm not to sure if that would chip.. if it would than I would definately not do it. I wasn't planning on using some cheap-o spray paint from like home hardware, I was gonna spend a pretty penny on supplies .

I planned on painting a test piece of vynl first, get a scrap piece from a wrecker or something. Will paint it accordingly and will bash it around/abuse the **** out of it when it's done. That way, I'll know the threshold of the paint .

-CR1X

 

An important advice i can give you is that you have to degrease the pieces pretty good before you start doing anything. Better yet, there is a "deramix" (spelling) plastic prep (not sure on the product number,but it says plastic prep) that works really goot. When you are doing it wear some type of gloves to prevent the oils on your hands on the pieces. It will then look like **** if oil get on the pieces. Fish eye are a bitch man. You have to start over once that happen man. Other than that good luck man

 

Yea, people told me that some pretty strng denatured alcohol will scrub all the **** off of the vynl pieces like nothing. I might get something that's industrial too, wanna have it done right the first time. It's worth a shot, would be great for me to experience too

-CR1X

 

why dont u get ur interior fiber glassed and then painted ? that way it would look a lot cleaner like the show cars because the cloth and vinyl will look like crap and take forever to dry and ur gunna have sticky interior with all that expensive paint u talking about

 

hmm, that might be a good idea. How much does fibreglass run usually.. just to get a rough idea..? Not only would it give me a clean appearance, but maybe lighten the car a TINY bit heh

-CR1X