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Offline Reid183

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Bugeye A-pillar paint match?
« on: December 13, 2017, 07:29:45 pm »
Hey guys, so ive had some gauges sitting around waiting to get installed for the last while so I finally found a pillar pod that mounts on the right A-pillar for RHD. Only thing is I bought it in black and my A-pillars are that common tan-ish grey-ish color.

I'm just wondering if someone had already experienced with paint matching the A-pillar color or has a color code that I could go off? If not I'll just go with as close as I can get by eye.

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Re: Bugeye A-pillar paint match?
« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2017, 10:05:32 pm »
Paint them all black

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Re: Bugeye A-pillar paint match?
« Reply #2 on: December 14, 2017, 05:17:01 am »
I had that thought for a brief moment until I realized for that to look proper it would entail painting the a, b, and c pillars, dying the headliner, painting both light besels, and the sun visors...

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Re: Bugeye A-pillar paint match?
« Reply #3 on: December 14, 2017, 11:10:25 am »
I had that thought for a brief moment until I realized for that to look proper it would entail painting the a, b, and c pillars, dying the headliner, painting both light besels, and the sun visors...

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Re: Bugeye A-pillar paint match?
« Reply #4 on: December 14, 2017, 01:45:19 pm »
I did this with vinyl dye spray cans for my forester ($10 a can at Can tire, probably spent $100).  It wasn't THAT bad of a job actually.  Things come out relatively easy, clean them off and spray them.  Looked pretty decent except I would recommend NOT to use the gloss black.

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Re: Bugeye A-pillar paint match?
« Reply #5 on: December 14, 2017, 02:14:19 pm »
Looked pretty decent except I would recommend NOT to use the gloss black.
Any specific reason why not the gloss black?

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Re: Bugeye A-pillar paint match?
« Reply #6 on: December 14, 2017, 02:22:23 pm »
Any specific reason why not the gloss black?

Just my opinion and may be his reasoning as well but painted gloss black plastics like that just look kinda cheap to me. A matte or satin finish would like much cleaner more like OEM.

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Re: Bugeye A-pillar paint match?
« Reply #7 on: December 14, 2017, 02:41:34 pm »
Some advice I have in this

1) use good paint. Got to a shop that mixes auto body paint and talk to them

2) you NEED and adhesive promoter. All the plastic is coated and it will look like a can of worms if you don't use it

3) fabric dye the headliner or reaploster it (if you reaploster you will need to dye the sun visor NOT PAINT)

4) take your time, maybe spend an entire weekend working on it.

5) you can never do enough research

If this is done proper, it's an amazing way to bring new joy into sitting in your car and other people will be jealous of your awesome interior. If it's done wrong you will hate yourself (I know from experience) and eventually find someone parting out, buy a new happy grey interior again and it will be a waste of time and money

You could also consider hydrodipping. You could probably get your plastics done for a couple hundred and only have to worry about the headliner/sun visor

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Re: Bugeye A-pillar paint match?
« Reply #8 on: December 18, 2017, 06:10:39 pm »
Duplicolour Trim paint and Vinyl Dye = Your best/cheapest option. The trim paint has a matte/satin finish matches the dashpad/door card material closely. And the vinyl dye works really well on the headliner and sunvisors. Doesn't chip or crack. I had my bugeye's interior completely blacked out.



That held up for 3+ years of daily driving too.
For the seatbelts rings, I ended up wrapping the seatbelt in duct tape, and masking tape, fed it into the eyelet and sprayed them down.
Best thing to do is use duplicolour wax and grease remover and wash down all the panels completely, dry, spray.