I’ve been wanting to change the interior color scheme of my truck for a while and cover up stains and scratches. My plan is to paint all the carpet and plastic below the trim black, the trim white, and every above will remain the factory Grey color. I finally got the free time and money at the same time to start it.

Materials
- rustoleum Spray paint that bonds to plastic
- clear coat that specifically I’ve resistant
- 220 sandpaper
- tape

process
The key to a good paint job Is preparation. The amount of prep work you take will show in your finished product. I started by taking off all the trim and washing all the plastic then lightly sanded everything. After drying everything I taped off everything and covered the carpet. I removed the climate control bezel and the bezel around the instrument cluster and painted it separately. If you plan on painting the instrument cluster bezel carefully tape over the plastic where warning lights are. Put tape over it and carefully cut around the edges.

Once I was satisfied with the prep work I started painting. With rattle cans it’s best if you lightly go over the pieces with one continuous stroke from one end to the other. If you stop or start in the middle of a piece it will leave a ring or cause the paint to run. You don’t need to completely coat the pieces for each coat. It will all come in time. After you’ve painted all the surfaces wait 15 minutes ish to apply the next coat. If you apply the paint thicker than you may have to wait longer.

Once you’ve applied 3 -5 coats all surfaces should Be sufficiently covered. Let the base coat sit overnight and apply a clear coat to protect the base coat. If you intend to use your truck during this then be careful not to touch the paint excessively because it will still be soft and can be scuffed easily







I used a black paint with flakes in it that gives it a powder coat look and I’m extremely happy with it so far. The bottom half of the dash board took about half a can of base coat and very little clear coat. More pictures and notes will come as I get more time to finish the rest of the cab.

 

Looks good!

I did something like that with the headliner in my daily driver (xj Cherokee). I took out the old ratty cloth/foam headliner. Rubbed All the dried up glue and left over foam with a stiff brush and painted it with black flex seal and a light top cost of flat black rustolium.

Planning to do the same to my f150 when I start restoring my interior.

 

Great job.
Looks better.

 

I got more time today and painted the carpet and kick panels, and started prepping the passenger door panel and repairing cracks in it. I’ll start another thread about fixing the cracks in the door panel.

It took two $1 cans of spray paint from Lowe’s to do the front carpet.