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| “I’ve just finished the painting of the headliner. I’ll post pictures soon. The process is simple and very cost effective if your headliner is intact, but just stained from the rubber, etc. Since I had removed my window for a water leak. I had an easy time of getting to the back corners on my coupe. I think that the job would be much more difficult with the window in. I removed the seats, visors, coat hooks, left the lights hanging out and back shelf and the 2 back screws to the side trim under the side windows to get all of the vinyl coated. |
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| I wiped the headliner clean with diluted degreaser and then the recommended laquer thinner before coating. It takes a lot of hand painting. The Color+ paint is water based so if you hit a piece of rubber or upholstery it wipes off with water. Being water based, it’s like house painting. That is the technique I used. You cut in with a large artists brush and a shield (I used a bondo spreader) jammed between the rubber and headliner material all around the seals and weatherstripping. Then you get a small fine finish foam roller (like you use for the Mopar roller painting method) and roll the big areas, one bay at a time, let dry then apply 2 more coats. |
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| The Color+ dries pretty fast to touch, about an hour or less at 75 degrees. It is the right consistency for FF rolling as it did not load the holes of the material and clog them, except where Dieter applied too much glue at the factory around one of the vanity lights. I took a T pin to open the holes back up. |
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| The outcome– Superb. The headliner is the nice linen color as it came from the factory. The match was spot on since it was spectrum matched.”
Lee |
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