Im painting my interior today, in the next hour or so. I'm curious, when i sand down the pieces, what grit sand paper should i use? Is it better to sand it? any help would be appreciated. I bought plasti kote paint. I believe this will work well. Please let me know ASAP. thanks,

~John

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When I did mine, I went to wally world and bought all grits to test with, the best one I found is 150 grit. anything coarser than that will leave little gouges in the plastic that look like shit when you paint them. IT does take a little longer to sand with this grit, but it is worth it in the end.

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would 240 grit be ok?

are you sanding it smooth? if so you are going to be there a while. if not, 240 should be fine if you want to keep the stock texture look. i used SEM paint on mine and i didnt sand at all.

I used 80 grit, then 180, then prime, then 320 and 400 wet. I'm gonna add a flex coat addetive when I paint them so that the paint won't crack from flexing and expanding. It took a long time to get all the parts smoothed out, I think like 5 days, 12 hours a day. I used an orbital sander where I could, some hand sanding in curved regions where the orbital couldn't reach and some bondo in curved regions with a deep texture. If you want to remove texture the prodecedure above works very well. If you just want the paint to bond to the plastic and you want the texture to stay on there than 240 grit will be fine.

>I used 80 grit, then 180, then prime, then 320 and 400 wet.

I did the same since I wanted a smooth interior.

-J

i used 180 and 240 (i think), and i managed to maintain most of the grain of the original pieces while removing the top layer of dirt and grime (i didnt want them to be completely smooth). then i used a hair dryer to blow off the excess plastic shards, wiped it all down with alcohol, and then used a layer of primer, a few layers of paint and 2-3 layers of clearcoat.

one word of advice: LET THE PIECES DRY FOR AT LEAST 24 HOURS BEFORE REINSTALLING THEM!!!! i cannot stress that enough. you will have fingerprints and chips all over the place if you dont.

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I used 100 something grit on one rear panel and then like 3 cans of filler primer on it. Then like 200 grit to sand it down. not done yet but its working very well. Super smooth. Only it is hard to get the primer to stick well on the rounded edges. Its taking a while to do this one peice but its lookin awesome so far.

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