Need to repaint/touch up the metal part of the parking brake lever, as well as the steering wheel column cover where it has been abraded by the key ring. Any paint recommendations?
Parking brake lever and steering wheel cover paint
- Thread starter dpdapper
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SEM texture paint is dang near factory look
For those parts not textured I've used both SEM Color Coat Landau Black or SEM Trim Black.
The handbrake metal part is a smooth satin black, not textured.
I too had a steering column cover with abrasion marks form the keys. I wanted to keep the splatter effect as original as possible, so i made some trials.
I've successfully reproduced the splatter effect with some hand placed dabs of filler where the abrasions were, letting them dry, stacking a few layers, and finally covering the whole steering column cover in a fresh thin matt satin black. The original splatter effect paint is dull, but your fresh black layer will be a smooth layer; even a matt paint it too shiny. Wiping that before it dries will give it the original matt finish, but now with all scratches filled and everything looking uniform.
This leaves the original splatter effect in place. Here's the endresult; you can't even make out where the paint was chipped.
by the way, the rings around the instruments, the steering column panel and the center console all have different textures
I too had a steering column cover with abrasion marks form the keys. I wanted to keep the splatter effect as original as possible, so i made some trials.
I've successfully reproduced the splatter effect with some hand placed dabs of filler where the abrasions were, letting them dry, stacking a few layers, and finally covering the whole steering column cover in a fresh thin matt satin black. The original splatter effect paint is dull, but your fresh black layer will be a smooth layer; even a matt paint it too shiny. Wiping that before it dries will give it the original matt finish, but now with all scratches filled and everything looking uniform.
This leaves the original splatter effect in place. Here's the endresult; you can't even make out where the paint was chipped.
by the way, the rings around the instruments, the steering column panel and the center console all have different textures
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otter74
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Piggybacking onto this question, what's the best SEM match to the gloss of molded plastic parts like later steering wheel hubs? I have an E21 3-spoke sport wheel with a faded look to the plastic that I'd like to recoat to look new. I have SEM Trim Black that I've used on my 911 but that looks a bit too flat. Is Landau Black a little glossier?
JPB 74
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Does the SEM Texture need a top coat to finish it?
stphers
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Have a look at Eastwoods plastic refinisher if the parts you want done are plastic I have used it for years with great results
Thanks, Rick
Thanks, Rick
otter74
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You mean the kind they have for refinishing faded exterior plastic? I wasn’t sure that kind of paint would work well on soft plastic.
stphers
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It is sort of a paint, it actually almost melts( for lack of a better term ) the top layer It is not a plastic paint but as it says, a refinisher