Plastic soft touch trim refurb

[Lander91]

Hi all

The six has been sitting idle since January after launching the headliner retrim project. As is typical I then branched off into many "while I'm there" projects. One of these was to have a crack at sorting out soft touch trim.

The rear sun shade unit was in a sorry state is as usual for this horrible surface treatment.

Step 1, fix the damage from previous removals where brackets had been snapped etc.
Step 2, using a blue Scotch Brite pad and methylated spirits, thoroughly strip off all of the soft touch coating.
Step 3, thoroughly clean the part with a plastic friendly solvent, I ran out of meths so used rubbing alcohol.
Step 4, clean it again
Step 5, spray with a plastic specific primer, I did 2 coats
Step 6, 4 light coats of paint following the coat time directions.

I used Dulux plastic primer and rust-oleum Chalked ultra matt paint, Charcoal colour.

Ultimately I'm happy with how it turned out, so I'll embark on refurbishing other areas like the door handles using the same process. I've have a new soft touch trim piece (centre console cup holder) as comparison. Not a 100% match but once as much of the trim has been done in the same manner you won't know.

As for how long it'll last, it feels like a harder coating so should stand up to light scratching without gouging out like the previous coating does.

[Shoppinit]

I'm going to try something like this at some point on my M3. I'm tempted to use Plastidip though.

[Astrosquirrel]

Looks quite good, though it's hard to tell the details from the picture.

A few years ago I plasti dipped the interior and that also looked great and held well over the years. I am going to have to do it again as I swapped the interior.

[Lander91]

Plastidip was the goal, but mainly due to convenience I grabbed these products from the local diy store as an experiment, happy with the outcome. Any pics of the plastidip results, and the colour used?

[Astrosquirrel]

Plastidip was the goal, but mainly due to convenience I grabbed these products from the local diy store as an experiment, happy with the outcome. Any pics of the plastidip results, and the colour used?

Hey, sorry for the late reply, I was out of the forums for a bit. I believe I covered that topic some years ago in this post:

viewtopic.php?p=683096#p683096

Hope you find it useful.

[Lander91]

Plastidip was the goal, but mainly due to convenience I grabbed these products from the local diy store as an experiment, happy with the outcome. Any pics of the plastidip results, and the colour used?

Hey, sorry for the late reply, I was out of the forums for a bit. I believe I covered that topic some years ago in this post:

viewtopic.php?p=683096#p683096

Hope you find it useful.

Bookmarked, thanks Astro. Will check the pics out when not at work (why do I come here? of yeah because RS6..) as our firewall doesn't like the links.