Duplicolor vinyl and fabric paint issue.

[Marlon671]

Soooo I've been on a mission to hunt black interior pieces but here in California, it's pretty impossible to find em. And if u do, u have to pay a pretty penny for it. So I went with the duplicolor route, and it works great on the door cards. I did 3 coats and after it cured, it almost felt like my door cards came black from factory. But the issue comes with the rear shelf. It was vaccumed and cleaned and throughly dried. Did 4 heavy coats with about 20-30 min dry time in between... For the most part, all was good. Black as fresh tar poured on a pothole. But then there's one part in the middle of the rear shelf that doesn't seem to want to accept the paint (see pics). Any help, tricks or advice would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!

[Marlon671]

Here is a before/after picture of the passenger door card if you guys wanna see how this looks. And believe me, after it dried I tried to scuff it with my keys, screwdriver, and even dropped it (by accident) while it was hanging in my garage and this paint sticks. Prep is key!

[Das Delfin]

^ That's amazing. I don't have any advice for the carpet panel but you've sold me on duplicolor for my door cards!

[15Michaeljoseph]

In for answers... Planning on dying my deck with this stuff soon (though I think charcoal grey is closer to the OEM color...)
Want to know what's up if I have a similar problem.

What did you use to clean it?

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[Marlon671]

^ That's amazing. I don't have any advice for the carpet panel but you've sold me on duplicolor for my door cards!

Yea man. It's good stuff. Here's a tip, I used the duplicity paint prep cleaner (same air drying effect as brake cleaner). But it's important that u clean twice or 3 times to get all grease out. And even more importantly, wipe dry and let air dry for a while. I made mine air dry for 30 mins after I dried with a clean cloth. Reason being is that for some reason, after I painted after wiping dry, some spots were bubbling. Almost like it was breathing or it had pores. I know, weird but that's how it felt. I left to get my son from school and came back about half an hour and painted the other door card and it went on with no problems. So I sprayed another coat on the other card that was bubbling and the paint went on smooth. Doesn't look like it was painted at all. Take ur time prepping, and ur results will come out awesome!

[Marlon671]

In for answers... Planning on dying my deck with this stuff soon (though I think charcoal grey is closer to the OEM color...)
Want to know what's up if I have a similar problem.

What did you use to clean it?

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Yea charcoal gray might look good too but I opted for black cause of my wierd ocd of having a balance of colors. Lol. Since my car is grey, I opted for black. Way better than the stained tan that I had originally.

I vaccumed, and cleaned with an auto upholstery cleaner as suggested on another post and let dry. I can dismiss the cleaner or my cleaning method as the culprit cause I cleaned the whole deck the same way. But for some odd reason, only that spot was rejecting (or sucking in) the paint. After it dried, I payed another coat and its seems to have gotten darker. I'll lay another coat down tomorrow when I have sunlight... I'll let u know how it goes.

[Marlon671]

Here's a picture of my car when I got it from the PO (top) and bottom picture is how it looks currently... Ton of work left to be done. Just thought I'd share.

[Marlon671]

Here's one of me and my brothers e30...

[reelizmpro]

I have sprayed a rear deck with the same stuff and didn't have any problems. Maybe oil or something was soiled in the center? Try flocking it and spray several coats from different angles.

[Marlon671]

I have sprayed a rear deck with the same stuff and didn't have any problems. Maybe oil or something was soiled in the center? Try flocking it and spray several coats from different angles.

Flocking? I'm aware of the process but is there another process of flocking the fabric that's already there? Or do u mean do the actual flocking method which requires the purchase of flocking material?

[15Michaeljoseph]

Yea charcoal gray might look good too but I opted for black cause of my wierd ocd of having a balance of colors. Lol. Since my car is grey, I opted for black. Way better than the stained tan that I had originally.

I vaccumed, and cleaned with an auto upholstery cleaner as suggested on another post and let dry. I can dismiss the cleaner or my cleaning method as the culprit cause I cleaned the whole deck the same way. But for some odd reason, only that spot was rejecting (or sucking in) the paint. After it dried, I payed another coat and its seems to have gotten darker. I'll lay another coat down tomorrow when I have sunlight... I'll let u know how it goes.

Awesome. Yes, my car's black on black, and had the charcoal factory deck, which has sun bleached to a light blue... So I just want to go for a restored look I suppose. Plus my carpet is more of a charcoal color.

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[Marlon671]

Oh yea. Charcoal would be the way to go! My carpet is also gonna be replaced to black. My bucket seats are also black. Headliner black. The only contrast I have is my shift boot, ebrake boot and sunroof headliner is a dark purple vinyl. Lol. Not the usual OEM restoration that most people do but believe me, before I got this car it looked like it was lived in by a couple of farm animals and on its way to be salvaged at a local pick n pull... Front oem sport seats looked liked it went through a bear attack and the car had more trash in it than a homeless encampment...

[Das Delfin]

This is going to be my first project with good weather comes. How many cans did you end up using?

[Marlon671]

This is going to be my first project with good weather comes. How many cans did you end up using?

About 3 cans for door cards and rear cards. and a whole can on the rear deck. you could probably get away with 3 cans if sprayed sparingly, I chose to do 3 coats just to make sure coverage was even and spotless.

[AndrewBird]

On the rear deck, do several light coats and see if that covers the "mystery" spot.