I have never used the Colorbond stuff, but I did my interior with the Duplicolor version of it a year ago and mine has held up fine. I prepped it right, so it is very scratch resistant. I don't know if they have the exact red you need though? I think there is the "plastidip" as well??
Anyone ever use ColorBond interior paint?
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Ok, I painted the test piece.
It's a tan A pillar molding I am planing on trying to graft a generic gauge pod onto at some point in the future.
(Don't want to ruin the original in the attempt)
So since it has to be red one day anyway, might as well use it as a guinee pig before I spray this stuff on my door panels.
Prep:
I cleaned the entire thing with purple-power twice. Then I lightly wiped it down with acetone. Then, just to make sure the factory paint did not cause a problem I wiped a section down with acetone until the factory coating was removed and it was down to the bare plastic. This is the lighter area in the picture below. Unfortunately this did lighten the texture a little.
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Took 5 mist coats to cover. The area with the factory paint removed was harder to coat, making me think it was sinking into the plastic, but sat on top of the factory paint everywhere else. Then again it may have just been the fact that that area was lighter.
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Well it definitely looks like something that belongs in my Bronco :toothless
I'll give it at least 24hrs to cure, then we will do a few scratch tests to see how it holds up. :thumbup
It's a tan A pillar molding I am planing on trying to graft a generic gauge pod onto at some point in the future.
(Don't want to ruin the original in the attempt)
So since it has to be red one day anyway, might as well use it as a guinee pig before I spray this stuff on my door panels.
Prep:
I cleaned the entire thing with purple-power twice. Then I lightly wiped it down with acetone. Then, just to make sure the factory paint did not cause a problem I wiped a section down with acetone until the factory coating was removed and it was down to the bare plastic. This is the lighter area in the picture below. Unfortunately this did lighten the texture a little.
Took 5 mist coats to cover. The area with the factory paint removed was harder to coat, making me think it was sinking into the plastic, but sat on top of the factory paint everywhere else. Then again it may have just been the fact that that area was lighter.
Well it definitely looks like something that belongs in my Bronco :toothless
I'll give it at least 24hrs to cure, then we will do a few scratch tests to see how it holds up. :thumbup
Yes, just a rag and water to wrens with.
Ok, here are the post scratch pic I promised a month ago :toothless
(Click thumb for pic)
If you look closely you can see a chip missing from one end and a crack in that same end. It got well abused after it was painted to test the adhesion of the ColorBond.
I must say, I am impressed with the product :thumbup
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