Since I'm going to be replacing the weather stripping and carpet...

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I was thinking I'll have my truck interior close to being gutted....minus the visors (which I'm going to be replacing) and the dash pad/bezel/gauge area...
so I was thinking of getting rid of my yucky brown paint inside to better match the charcoal grey carpet I'm getting....
I really don't have the money to have the interior painted right now but I was thinking that I could get it ready by primering it and use a color that would match my carpet for now

Has anyone done this? Do you think it would look ok temporarily?

Is there any reason this would be a bad idea?

My husband works for a company that builds custom gaming pc's (#1 in the world...they're actually featured in the next two months of Maxim magazine...)
Anyways, one of their custom features is a custom painted case and the guy who paints them is one of the top painters for Lithia Automotive here in the valley. He actually uses automotive paint to paint these cases. They are amazing!! He'll give us a good deal on painting when we're ready so my husband is going to ask him what he would charge to paint just the interior of my truck. Since I don't have a whole lot of money to put into this, my back up plan is the primer if I can't afford to have him paint it right now.

Here's some of his work:




Here's the pc case that travels on the NASCAR circuit...


and Dale Earnhardt Jr even has one of his custom painted cases with his driver number and a custom built pc from my husband's company.


Needless to say, when I'm ready, I'm going to definitely be hiring him to do all of my painting!!


Well, I got a little carried away with showing off his work...but what do y'all think about primering my interior?