Painted my side door compartment covers!

[Perfectlap]

Nice!

I once tried to paint these intakes for my Miata. The part was no bigger than those door lids. I must have spent 20 hours in the cellar wet sanding, priming and then going through two cans of body color matched paint cans (from Tower Paint). THe job probably could have been done with a 1/4 of one can.
I think I had to re-do it four times because I didn't wait long enough between coats and the paint started to dry weird, dust, eyelash, .....etc.

[spark00]

thanks 986spyder for great painting guide. here are few pics of my first painting attempt. i live in one bedroom condo and do not have clean garage to use. i had to transform my living room into paiting area... not having much patients and getting the lint and dust off between coating was the worst thing about painting but i'm pretty happy with the final result.

next paiting mod: i picked up extra center console on ebay the other day for $120. i'm going to paint that extra console and see if it's worthy enough to be installed.

[fab]

Originally Posted by spark00

next paiting mod: i picked up extra center console on ebay the other day for $120. i'm going to paint that extra console and see if it's worthy enough to be installed.

Please post some pics when you are done. I will be attempting the same thing.

[porsche986spyder]

Originally Posted by spark00

thanks 986spyder for great painting guide. here are few pics of my first painting attempt. i live in one bedroom condo and do not have clean garage to use. i had to transform my living room into paiting area... not having much patients and getting the lint and dust off between coating was the worst thing about painting but i'm pretty happy with the final result.

next paiting mod: i picked up extra center console on ebay the other day for $120. i'm going to paint that extra console and see if it's worthy enough to be installed.

Man those look good!