how to clean a poorly prepped dashpad...LOOK!

[gmachinz]

I'm helping a friend with his 86K20 truck and we are restoring the interior back to original-among my collection of truck parts is another dashpad which was originally grey but was poorly painted black-I doubt it was even SEM quality dye since it has a way too shiny surface to begin with. Assuming it was poorly prepped, I was betting a trip to the carwash using the pressure washer would blast the paint off without damaging the dash-and it worked flawlessly! The truck should be Dark Maple inside and I don't have that color dash but I suggested we strip on of my previously painted ones and see if we can dye it correctly-this is a cheaper alternative and the dash is actually crack-free. I was laughing as he began "washing" the dash....in the pics you can see the nice grey factory finish under the crappy black paint.

[bnoon]

Nice! LOL! I'm going to do a little dance if I ever find one crack free in a salvage yard. Those seem to be the first thing to go.

[INSIDIOUS '86]

Sweet Ile do that to my door panels since I POORLY panted them lol
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[MalibuSSwagon]

I would have just wiped the paint off with lacquer thinner, you could have damaged the dash with the high pressure.

[gmachinz]

No....if you hit it at an angle you won't hurt the dash.....if the speaker grill areas are weak then you would want to avoid them but this dash is in great shape. I thought about lacquer thinner but decided it would be a last resort....last thing I want is to dry out the vinyl with laquer plus the freakin mess it would have made. It took maybe 15 minutes to clean the dash. So after that, a nice clean up with comet and dawn and we're ready to dye!
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