Hi,

Being the owner of a 99 TH Sports only recently I thought it would be best to try and fix the few blemishs the car came with. This isnt exactly a mod, more a repair. The passenger and drivers armrest have some obvious wear. The origional black colour has been worn back to a copper colour. So i'd like to fix it. I'm assuming removing them and spraying them black, then maybe a few coats of finish while sanding in between each coat. I heard i need to remove the trim from the drivers door to get to that armrest however.

Can anyone point me in the right direction of paint?
Or is there something easier i can do to fix the problem?
Pic below,
Thanks

Hi mate! Cant help you with the paint, but you dont need to remove the arm rest.
Get a screw driver with a cloth on the end and pry it under on end of the plastic arm rest and pop it out.
Let us know how it all turns out!
Cheers
Pete

I believe it was mentioned in another thread what the name of the magna interior paint colour is, have a search

let us all know how u go mate as mine is about half worn off and looks shocking......

I believe it was mentioned in another thread what the name of the magna interior paint colour is, have a search

Cheers for the responses,
atm i am unable to find such thread.

Cheers for the responses,
atm i am unable to find such thread.
http://www.aussiemagna.com/forums/showpost.php?p=502933&postcount=7

and thread:
http://www.aussiemagna.com/forums/showthread.php?p=502933#post502933

http://www.aussiemagna.com/forums/showpost.php?p=502933&postcount=7

and thread:
http://www.aussiemagna.com/forums/showthread.php?p=502933#post502933


Cheers champ

Just ensuring this is the right process:

Materials:
Sandpaper 1500 and 2000
Gun metal grey colour code is: Shade 47729
Primer (assuming generic is fine)
Clear finish

Process:
- Clean surface
- sand it down with 1500 grit
- 2 Primer coats
- sand again
- 3 coats of metal grey
- Wet sand of 2000
- 2 layers of gloss finish
- final sand

thanks

I'm not so sure you'd sand the final product?

Anyone checked into the cost of getting replacements from mitsi's?

Bet it would work out more economical to get new ones :D

k is it jus me or does that look like woodgrin finish under it? jus let it fade out and that way ur armrest will look like rada ones.

Anyone checked into the cost of getting replacements from mitsi's?

Bet it would work out more economical to get new ones :D

Yes i did... $120 :noway:
Flamin ripoff!

ideas on an auto paint shop in adel?
super-cheap-auto only had 6 interior colours :shock:

Don't have to be auto paint, can be anything from a craft shop too.

When I was matching up colours... methink Tamiya's Gun Metal would be good too.
For a grey cloth interior, I'm thinking of Tamiya's Light Gun Metal looks nice too.
Available at good model hobby stores, very good spraypaint - use it for all my models.