juicy

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just did mine last night and it was super easy. took me about an hour for everything. did 3 coats, used a hairdryer from far away to speed up the drying.



sorry for the washed out pics, tilt pics ftl.

slvrsti

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any body use plasti dip on the pilars.thinking about doing everthing at once.does it come in a spray or what? looks good!

juicy

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^ i've seen people do the pillar, looks good. it's super easy to do. it comes in rattle can form, just wipe off the dust and start spraying. just make sure if you decide to use a hairdryer, you don't put it too close or else it'll bubble. but the good thing is, you can just peel it off. what i did was spray a semi light coat on it, dry it, then put on a heavy 2nd coat. after that, you can pretty much do as many as you'd like. what i've read is most people doing 4-5 coats but after 3, i thought it was good enough, so that's what i stuck with. i bought mine at OSH but people say it's available at home depot and lowe's. good luck!

KOSTI

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nice, I've been looking at all the DIY threads about painting. I shall give this a try in a few weeks. I personally hate the cheese looking silver finish.. gots to go yo.. got to go

jondl

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Nice man. Any reason why you didn't do your din slot? I'm pretty close to doing this myself.

juicy

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^ was lazy, haha. i thought it was going to take longer so i didn't yank that part out. i am going to do that tonight.

medicSTi

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just look at how the spring is set in it

wingless06

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hope to do this soon. I'll come over with another body who wants to do it and we'll get a lesson from you.
OFF TOPIC:
I work for att and hate the tilt. My brother uses it and he doesn't like it. He says google is weird on it; something about not letting him load images correctly.

juicy

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^ do you have a single din deck in there or using the stock double din?

i would familiarize yourself with taking the center console apart first, the spraying is the easy part.

if i find the tutorials i looked at, i'll post them up but here's the one on plasti-dip: http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/show...ght=plasti+dip

juicy

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soggynoodle's console that we did today, sans hvac controls cuz he wants the jdm stuff with the red dial...

medicSTi

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looks sick

so steezy

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that looks awesome..thats what I want mine to look like. I have the avic d3 as well, I just need the jdm hazard button. im guessin you used the plastidip?

juicy

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yup, 1 can is plenty for one car. there's still a little bit left after 2 center consoles and 2 change holders. i want to put a ****load inside the cupholders so they don't rattle when i have soda cans in them.

i picked up my jdm hazard buttom from speedelement.

i'm thinking i will need to do another 2-3 coats for super durability. freaking soggy scratched his yesterday and i had to reshoot it.

so steezy

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what did you have to tape off when you started spraying?

juicy

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i didn't tape off anything. i would recommend doing one piece at a time instead of laying them all out and spraying them all at the same time.

in order of removal:

shifter trim - unscrew the shiftknob, put your hand into the boot and pull towards you, 45* angle, it should just pop out. unplug the stuff from the back and take off the boot (wrx). sti, you'll have to use allen wrenches to take off the trim piece. ready for spraying.

center piece with the hvac controls - 2 screws at the bottom, and 2 clips on the sides. this part will take some muscles and persistence to take off. nothing to disconnect, once it's off, ready for spraying.

a/c vent - 3 screws on the bottom, you'll see them once the piece around the stereo/hvac controls is out. just pull from the bottom and disconnect from the back. popping out the hazard button is easy too and once the back is disconnected, ready for spraying.

for the spraying, i've said a light first coat but to further elaborate, what i did was once the piece changed from silver to a little black and fully coated, just hit it with a blowdryer from far away, like 4-5 feet and move it around so it doesn't bubble up the rubber. i'd say about 30 secs and you can just touch it with your finger to make sure it's dry. do another 3-4 coats, with the 2nd one being heavier. you won't want to hold the spray on a certain spot long as the color will change. you want to go over left to right, up to down, many, many times. try it first with the ac vent to get a feel of what you're doing since there isn't much of a flat surface that will reflect light easily. so if you eff up, it won't look bad and with plasti-dip, you can always peel it off by rubbing your thumb on it (1 coat, if you did 4-5, not sure how easy it'd be to take it off).

probably missing something but i think i've covered most.