Volvo S60 (2000 - 2009) - Interior trim / plastic paint - any good? | Motoring discussion | Back Room Forum

Tue 1 Jul 2008 13:06

Interior trim / plastic paint - any good? - DP

The Volvo's interior is generally wearing its 130,000 miles very well, but there are a couple of areas where a bit of tidying might be appropriate.

The black plastic door cappings are marked in a couple of places, particularly where they disappear behind the interior door handles. I was wondering how practical it would be to take them off, rub them down and paint them with the special paints you can buy for interior plastics. If I was going to do this, I would probably paint them silver to match the later / facelift interior. The dash of my car is pretty unrelenting grey/black in colour save for the spaceball gearlever which is silver. I think this same silver highlighting would look good along the door cappings, and maybe even on the strip of trim running along the top of the glovebox lid. As I said, this is not my own design - Volvo themselves did it on later models.

The paints seem to be readily available with a primer, the colour, and then a clearcoat sealant. Has anyone had any experience with this paint, and does it work? The door cards are in otherwise perfect condition, and it seems a shame to replace the whole lot, assuming I could even find an S60 in a breakers - they seem to be rarer than hen's teeth. The reason I thought this paint might be suitable is that the areas concerned are small (about 2" wide strips) and are not subject to wear and tear or flex.

Any experience / advice welcome.

Cheers
DP

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