Spraying door cards

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ivqii
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Post Tue Aug 23, 2005 2:28 pm

Can anyone help? :)

My vinyl door cards (beige ) have become rather tired looking and are no longer responding to cleaning - they remain dull.

Is there an aerosol paint that I could spray them with?

Sorry if this is a dumb question :oops:
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Post Tue Aug 23, 2005 2:56 pm

i had some navy blue ones on my old 320i i bought some trim paint from paint suppliers for 8quid and sprayed them, also did the headlining black, looked sweet!
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Post Tue Aug 23, 2005 3:17 pm

have you got a 4door? if so I may have a complete beige leather interior includign vinyl door cards up for grabs in a couple of weeks, pm me if your interested
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Post Tue Aug 23, 2005 3:27 pm

Thanks A1 - I'll look into that

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Post Tue Aug 23, 2005 3:37 pm

I guess the important thing is to get paint suitable for flexible vinyll and clean the cards with something that'll totally degrease them and the excess will evaporate away completely. Window cleaner maybee??

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Post Tue Aug 23, 2005 4:21 pm

When I was doing my Baur up a couple of years ago, I used Halfords Vinyl spray paint to change the door cards from beige to black. Ended up too shinny and eventually changed the door cards

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Post Tue Aug 23, 2005 4:50 pm

baur320 wrote:When I was doing my Baur up a couple of years ago, I used Halfords Vinyl spray paint to change the door cards from beige to black. Ended up too shinny and eventually changed the door cards

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Doh i got some of that paint :(
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Post Tue Aug 23, 2005 5:34 pm

jaistanley wrote:I guess the important thing is to get paint suitable for flexible vinyll and clean the cards with something that'll totally degrease them and the excess will evaporate away completely. Window cleaner maybee??

Jai
Halfords Surface Cleaner or any other non residue alcohol based cleaner will do the trick.
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Post Tue Aug 23, 2005 6:53 pm

the paint i got was perfect, not shiny at all, it looked factory, so i did my 325`s headlining as well as per 325 sport :wink: