Sprayed My Dash

[*Bowsy*]

looks good mate,thats what colour i\'ve just done mine.

Looks well nice in gun metal

[vxer]

Looks nice!

How did you key the plastic for paint? Just sanded?

How did you remove the dash?

Ta, Paul.

[dj_dee99]

I did a hell of a lot of sanding. Had to get that rubbery coating off, so it took some time.

Dash wasn\'t too hard to remove. A couple of choice swear words and it was out! :rollin
 
I followed these instructions that Archbish posted ages ago after doing a search for "Dash Removal"...... http://www.mazdarotaryclub.com/forums/showpost.php?p=75152&postcount=2

[CJay]

I did a hell of a lot of sanding. Had to get that rubbery coating off, so it took some time.

Is the rubbery coating on all FD dashs? Mine (95) just looks and feels like standard tacky Jap plastic...

CJ

[dj_dee99]

I believe it was something like 92-94, so you should be o.k. Just use some very fine wet & dry paper to remove any cleaning products & key it a little & you should be fine.

[RobbieRX-7]

The rubberey coating is only on the early fd\'s. I think in 1994 on they stopped it and just used tacky textured looking plastic which your on about.

[dj_dee99]

Hmmm. If it\'s textured, you\'ll probably need to sand it to a smooth finish. Although should still be fairly easy, just use 3 stages of wet & dry paper.

[shaunwil]

Blimey, didn\'t you fancy mazda silver Looking very nice :p

Shaun

[vxer]

I followed these instructions that Archbish posted ages ago after doing a search for "Dash Removal"...... http://www.mazdarotaryclub.com/forums/showpost.php?p=75152&postcount=2

Cool - almost done removing stuff to sand. One problem though - how did you remove the plastic driver side door cover, i can\'t figure it out and don\'t want to snap anything?

Cheers, Paul.

[chris@yoco]

looks good m8 same colour as mine

[dj_dee99]

Cool - almost done removing stuff to sand. One problem though - how did you remove the plastic driver side door cover, i can\'t figure it out and don\'t want to snap anything?
 
Cheers, Paul.

Pretty easy, really. There\'s 3 screws around the edges of the door trim. Then you just need to pop out the screw cover inside the door handle & take the screw out of there, take the off 2 triangular covers above the panel (they just pop out). Then just lift the door panel upwards. All the screws that hold the part you wanna spray are on the rear of the door panel, so it\'s all plain sailing from there.

[gmogle]

Super job there, love the colour and livens up the interior. I plan on doing mine too but having had the car off the road for about 3 weeks while I did the rats nest job I dont wanna rush and do this, just wanna drive it.

Quick question though, when you have rubbed it all down and resprayed it, will it scratch again or have you removed the rubbery coating ?

[dwarfslapper]

Quick question though, when you have rubbed it all down and resprayed it, will it scratch again or have you removed the rubbery coating ?

you will need to take off all the rubbery coating or the paint will react and you will need to start again. plenty of laquer as well :cool

[dj_dee99]

Yup. The rubbery coating takes some sanding to get off, but it\'s all worth it in the end. To avoid scratching, you wanna do 4 or 5 coats of colour and then 2 or 3 coats of laquer.
 
The main thing is not rushing it. It\'s always tempting to get all the coats of paint on as soon as possible, but it\'s worth taking time between coats for a better result.

[vxer]

Just started to spray mine now, but i\'m wondering whether or not to do the instrument binacle as ppl say it\'ll reflect onto the windscreen and distract from the road.

However, if i don\'t spray it, wont it look daft against the other painted parts?Anyone got a picture of an FD done this way?

Ta, Paul.