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I’m looking to change my interior to black and the parts and shipping are a little pricey.

Interior plastics can be painted. That might cost you a lot less. To do it 'right' so it'll last, you'd want to spray the hard plastics with an automotive adhesion promoter. Basically it's like a ultra high solvent, similar to a PVC pipe solvent, from, say, PPG (or your auto paint store). You could probably even use PVC pipe solvent too! It seems and smells like the exact same solvent to me as the PVC solvent (only way cheaper). I'm 98% sure it would work. You could test some on your tk plastic and see if it 'softens' the plastic. Anyway, plastic adhesion promoters are widely used on automotive bumpers and painted plastics to soften the plastic a bit *before* the first coat of primer. That way you get a 'chemical' adjesion which is far superior and better paint-holding to just scuffing (mechanical adhesion). And you know car bumpers can take a good whack and not have paint peel off.

Anyway, you spray out the promoter solvent with a spray gun, let it flash off, then right away (don't touch the plastic!), spray on a coat of primer or sealer. Let that flash off, then spray on your color. For automotive interiors, you'd want to get a semi-flat (or 'satin') black (or add flattening agent to black urethane paint). Only a couple coats of paint to cover, no more than you need. You don't want too thick of paint. Doing it the way I just described would work great. You could take all the pieces to a body shop and I bet they wouldn't charge you very much to do it ....and they have all the stuff. They could probably mask off the dash and spray it in place. At least contact a couple body shops and get a price. You could probably use the SEM spray can promoter (link above) and spray cans of good quality paint (SEM) of satin black.

If you use cheap spray can paint with no UV protection it'll likely fade pretty quick and look like crap in 2 years. That's why I'd use a single-stage automotive urethane with flattening agent (to make semi-gloss). Urethane is a good quality paint which will look great for a long time. ...like automotive exterior paint does. Unfortunately flattening agent is kind of expensive. But good SEM satin black would (should) do a good job. Or a body shop would have the two spoonfuls of flattening agent that's needed. The amature back-yard way of doing the job would be to spray the plastics direct with cheap parts-store spray can paint ...which would fade and start peeling once the summer heat hits it. I would avoid that route.

The seats ...what were you planning to do for seats? Leather or Cloth? You could always spring for a set of black Katzkins! They're real nice.

Dero said:

I’m looking to change my interior to black and the parts and shipping are a little pricey.

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Typically the. Shipping is discounted and prices are a bit discounted from the list price depending on what you might be looking for.

Best bet is to contact Benny if you have not already.