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So the car I just picked up has fallen victim to the common problem of the interior plastic getting sticky and easily scratched. My buddy complains about this same problem with his Porsche (although it's not the case in the Porsche I own). I don't know what its due to, but I'm assuming they used too soft of a plastic that causes it to get this way over time.
Anyhow, I'm going to get it redone. My local shop said they can paint it in a matte finish to match the navy blue leather trim inside. Perfect, but I want something a bit more tasteful for the center dash piece around the NAV screen.
I've spoken to Also Corp (www.alsacorp.com) about their different interior wood kits. To me putting a stick on wood dash kit is way to trashy for these cars although I do think a nice wood accent would look nice inside (I'm not one for carbon fiber). I was considering doing just the center piece in a wood film. They can form fit the wood to the center dash piece, but thats about 10x the cost from just getting a roll of sticky sided wood and having it custom cut and fit to the center piece. The roll out woodgrain is almost the same thing as the stick on dash kit though and I worry that this will look too cheap. So I'm stuck at a dilemma....should I just paint the center piece navy blue to match the rest or should I take a shot with the woodgrain?
I'm also going to re-do all the buttons in the car. The buttons on the center piece are scratched, and some of the numbers on the phonepad are scratched enough that they cant be read. I'm going to have all the paint sanded off of them and then repainted, except for the tops. I'm then going to stencil new numbers/icons, paint them silver, then remove the stencils so they can still be backlit.
I was wondering if anyone has performed anything like this on their cars? I know the sticky dash is a common problem on the '02 Spyders so I'm wondering how others fixed theirs...
Anyhow, I'm going to get it redone. My local shop said they can paint it in a matte finish to match the navy blue leather trim inside. Perfect, but I want something a bit more tasteful for the center dash piece around the NAV screen.
I've spoken to Also Corp (www.alsacorp.com) about their different interior wood kits. To me putting a stick on wood dash kit is way to trashy for these cars although I do think a nice wood accent would look nice inside (I'm not one for carbon fiber). I was considering doing just the center piece in a wood film. They can form fit the wood to the center dash piece, but thats about 10x the cost from just getting a roll of sticky sided wood and having it custom cut and fit to the center piece. The roll out woodgrain is almost the same thing as the stick on dash kit though and I worry that this will look too cheap. So I'm stuck at a dilemma....should I just paint the center piece navy blue to match the rest or should I take a shot with the woodgrain?
I'm also going to re-do all the buttons in the car. The buttons on the center piece are scratched, and some of the numbers on the phonepad are scratched enough that they cant be read. I'm going to have all the paint sanded off of them and then repainted, except for the tops. I'm then going to stencil new numbers/icons, paint them silver, then remove the stencils so they can still be backlit.
I was wondering if anyone has performed anything like this on their cars? I know the sticky dash is a common problem on the '02 Spyders so I'm wondering how others fixed theirs...