Painting a Car Interior Requires Proper Preparation
Dash before repair with ColorBond LVP Refinisher
How Can I Make my Car Interior Look Better?
Let’s face it, a scratched up or faded car interior can look horrible. Suddenly, you find your car not so appealing, and you want it to look better. But what can you do? Replace the damaged interior parts? Buy a newer car? How about painting a car interior?
Can You Paint the Interior of a Car?
Can you paint the interior of a car with great results? You sure can with ColorBond LVP, which is a paint designed to bond to leather, vinyl, and plastic to provide interior parts with a brand-new appearance. ColorBond LVP is flexible so it will stay adhered and won’t crack or peel.
How do You Paint Car Interior Panels?
ColorBond LVP is a user-friendly spray paint that’s applied to car interior panels in a few light coats, with a two-minute wait between coats. The paint is designed to bond after 10 minutes dry time. ColorBond specializes in offering OEM correct interior colors. Check them out.
Proper Preparation is Critical When Painting a Car Interior
Painting a car interior seems like a straightforward task, right? Just clean off the leather, vinyl or plastic surface with your favorite spray cleaner, mask off what you don’t want painted, and start spraying? No, there is more to painting a car interior than that. When our customers ask “can you paint the interior of a car?”, we tell them yes, but to remember that as with all paint jobs, the result is only as good as the preparation and using the right cleaner.
Most cleaners don’t adequately remove dirt, oil, grime, and other scum for best paint adhesion, and they often leave residue that doesn’t allow paint to bond properly. Speaking of adhesion, even with a good cleaning paint often won’t bond properly to hard interior plastics like PPO & TPO; an adhesion promoter should be applied first.
Paint applied to dashboard is peeling
ColorBond offers products that have been specially formulated to prepare leather vinyl and plastic when painting a car interior. As the product names suggest, Prep Cleaner is for cleaning before paint application and Adhesion Promoter ensures the best paint bond to hard plastics.
ColorBond Prep Cleaner is a liquid non-solvent, aqueous-based cleaner that removes dirt, grime and oil from leather, vinyl and plastic when painting a car interior. It also removes compounds and releasing agents that compromise most interior paint jobs. Plus, it doesn’t leave residue that can interfere with paint bonding. Prep Cleaner is applied with a clean, tack free cloth and dries within 5 minutes.
With proper preparation car interior paint can remain strongly adhered
ColorBond customer Chris Hollerback used Windex to clean the interior of his 1995 Ford F-150 before painting. He thought the surfaces were as clean as could be. He then tried ColorBond Prep Cleaner and was surprised by how much cleaner they became, getting dirt out of all the fine creases in the leather-like grain pattern of the plastic. You can see the story about his painting project here.
The application of paint to Polypropylene, Polyphenylene oxide (PPO) and thermoplastic polyolefin (TPO) plastics is difficult because of the poor adhesion of most coatings to plastics. ColorBond Adhesion Promoter was created to improve the bond between paint and today’s auto plastics like PPO & TPO. It acts as a primer, or tie coat between the plastic surface and the paint and keeps it from flaking, cracking, and peeling. ColorBond Adhesion Promoter is sprayed on the surface after cleaning. A blow dryer or heat gun set at 140-250° is then used to apply heat for about 10 minutes to dry and thoroughly bond the Adhesion Promoter to the plastic. Paint can then be applied.
Can you paint the interior of a car with great results? Yes, with proper preparation your car interior can turn out beautifully. ColorBond provides products to prepare and paint your car interior for a beautiful, durable, and long-lasting result. You can find more information on these products here.
