Show off your DIY painted dash

[Redbaron73]

My daughters jeep is ocean blue. Painted the dash in Mojito.

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[NJJeep Guy]

Ocean blue with a mojito dash... Interesting. You should take a wider pic for the color contrast to show up better

 

[Redbaron73]

Here are a few more shots.

 

[RavenJeep]

I did the speaker bezels too a few weeks ago

How hard was it to do the speaker bezels? Anything I should know, getting ready to do the dash and I’d like to do them too. Thanks!

 

[Redbaron73]

How hard was it to do the speaker bezels? Anything I should know, getting ready to do the dash and I’d like to do them too. Thanks!

Funny you asked that --as originally I told my daughter no way in heck can it be done easily.

Turns out - 4 screws and the covers pop right off. I took my time to tape off the lines, and covered the back side due to overspray potential.

I did 3 steps for all my plastic painting.

1 - Clean using a good cleaner
2 - scotchbright to rough up paintable surface
3 - precoated with a paint adhesion promoter.

I then used 3 coats of paint and put it back up. It was so simple to do all the dash trim, I will be doing it on my Rubicon soon. Right now I have those cheap stick-on plastic red accents. I liked them until I painted my daughters jeep. Now they look cheap to me.

 

[TRZ]

I did 3 steps for all my plastic painting.

1 - Clean using a good cleaner
2 - scotchbright to rough up paintable surface
3 - precoated with a paint adhesion promoter.

Why the adhesion promoter for scuffed up plastic? (I’m hoping to paint my dash panels this weekend with Spray Max 1K and 2 K this weekend.)

 

[Redbaron73]

Why the adhesion promoter for scuffed up plastic? (I’m hoping to paint my dash panels this weekend with Spray Max 1K and 2 K this weekend.)

It is the only way to guarantee the paint will stick and not have a flaking problem down the road.
Here is a demonstration:

 

[TRZ]

It is the only way to guarantee the paint will stick and not have a flaking problem down the road.
Here is a demonstration:

Thanks. I see SprayMax has plastic adhesion promoter, so will apply that prior to base coat.

 

[Redbaron73]

I bought mine from the paint supply that mixed the Mojito.

 

[RavenJeep]

Funny you asked that --as originally I told my daughter no way in heck can it be done easily.

Turns out - 4 screws and the covers pop right off. I took my time to tape off the lines, and covered the back side due to overspray potential.

I did 3 steps for all my plastic painting.

1 - Clean using a good cleaner
2 - scotchbright to rough up paintable surface
3 - precoated with a paint adhesion promoter.

I then used 3 coats of paint and put it back up. It was so simple to do all the dash trim, I will be doing it on my Rubicon soon. Right now I have those cheap stick-on plastic red accents. I liked them until I painted my daughters jeep. Now they look cheap to me.

Thanks!

 

[madscientist]

Here is our 2020 Willys with body-matched Bikini Pearl dashboard.

 

[Maxamillie]

Whoo just finished painting my dash and few other pieces Hot Pink. Super easy thanks you everyone’s help here and Huge thanks to @Redbaron73

 

[Redbaron73]

Whoo just finished painting my dash and few other pieces Hot Pink. Super easy thanks you everyone’s help here and Huge thanks to @Redbaron73

Looks great! Where did you end up getting your paint?

 

[MyDaughters20JL]

has anyone found any of the pint code JEL, redical red that matches the red rubicon dash?

 

[N875ED]

Anybody done their panels in a wrap? At least the passenger side. Not much of an airbrush artist like urr2slo but I was thinking of designing something. Blank canvas indeed.

DO NOT PUT A WRAP ON THE INSTRUMENT PANELS-PAINT ONLY. The passenger side contains the airbag, and a wrap would seriously affect how it breaks open at deployment....like maybe not at all.

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