#1: Dying the door trims Author: HowlingMadMurdock, Location: Ashington, NorthumberlandPosted: Sun May 12, 2013 7:08 am ---- I saw somebody had done this with spray dye so Munchkin, in her infinite wisdom (read with sarcasm), decided that she wanted Junior's fabric bits in the door panels and the glove box dying black as opposed to that crappy green. She had her heart set on black with red trim for the interior. But guess who gets the job of doing it?
Remember the old saying of "You get what you pay for". She ordered some dye from the internet, the product has been quoted on here, but I won't slag a company off because it's not fair, and you might as well just spray water at it. All it did was make the green go darker.
So off I go to see my mate up the road who owns the village motor spares shop. The guy has serious OCD about his cars and appearance so knows his stuff. So he gives me a can of Auto Glym black dye and tells me to be careful with it as it dries fast and dyes absolutely anything.
One word of advice here, if you're going to do this with the panels in the car double mask everything as the dye will soak through one layer of masking tape and once it dries (in minutes) it's a pain to get off the plastic with meths or alcohol wipes and a lot of elbow grease.
Many a local have dyed their roof lings with this stuff and it works well. You will probably need more than one coat and spray like you would with normal paint, thin coats and let it build up, and as it dries very fast you can do the job in one day.
Ok so it's cheap and the results are what you want but if like Munchkin you want black door trims my advice to you is go to the scrappy and buy some.
Going from a light colour to a dark one is hard enough, if you want to go from dark to light forget it, you can't do it with dye.
And one last thing, the guy in the shop has spray paint called Hycote and it's labelled as double thickness on it's coating properties. I was only doing the door handles so thought why not give it a try? I can sand it off if it's crap. The stuff is great, cover well and the gloss shine is great. How well it lasts remains to be seen but it seems like good stuff.
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