anyone ever do this besides zabeard?...i wanna black mine out..anyone have the how to?...Are the seat belts black on a lvl 2?

 

isnt it pretty straight forward....either swap everything or paint everything?

personally id be happy with just the black level II seats

 

yeah just wanted to see other people doing it so i know what precautions to take b4 attempting to do so.More then likely i will be painting..

 

seat belts are black

FYI....not sure if it's still for sale but a guy on TRS or RPS (I forget which) had almost the entire black interior from a level ii for sale.

 

humm ok thanks

 

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Heres the link to mine its pretty straight foward , PM Zabeard and he can get you the link to his .
My advice this is what I learned dont take the dash out I spent over 4 hours trying to get it out , and it only took about 30 mins taping off everything as you see in the pics and I dont have over spray anywhere .

Next when you paint a trim peice let it cure inside for a week or so , so be prepaired to have missing peices out of your truck i drove for a week and a half with only the gauge cluste mounted to my dash for this reason but worth it for longetivity of the paint .

Use adhesion promoter , I only used it on the dash and now am regretting it as some paint is chipping off plastic peices , but the dash and peices I used promoter I have intentionaly tried to knock off pain and it aint hapening .

I used 1/2 can promoter 1 can primer , 2 cans of Sem vinyl spray on Dash alone if this tells you anything .

All the OD green parts in the pics I did 4 coats and used around 10 cans total of OD green wich is sprayed on all the hard plastic trim , and another 5 cans primer on plastic.

Heres a complete list of what I used compare to Zabeards and fill in as you want .
10 cans OD green for plastic
5 cans primer
1 can adhesion promoter
2 cans Sem vynil spray
1 bottle acetone
1 sleave 220 , 120 grit
3 220 grit sponges .
A bunch of rags
1 roll tape , and butchers paper to mask off

If your going all one color youll need 12-15 cans of that color and at least 6-8 cans adhesion promoter , Also you results will only be as good as the suplies you use I reocmend SEM it is what Zabeard recomended to me and I used some off brand adhesion promoter , IT will cost 200-300 dollars but is so worth it for such a custom and drastic change .

 

Thank you,Ill start with 5 cans lol...do i really need to sand it down?the dash seems like a ***** to get a even sand.

 

No I used it on some spots that had some dried on crap on , and the air bag and something else I cant think of . Get with Zabeard and see how many he used I know I purposely put on alot of coats for added longevity , so i used alot of paint .

 

The above is pretty accurate, tho you won't need primer; the adhesion promoter IS the primer in this case.

The only reason you might need primer is if you were sanding down ll of the panels to give them a different finish. you also won't need sandpaper or sanding blocks, again unless youre changing the finish.

I wanted my interior's finish to still look stock... I just wanted the color changed.

 

I think '03+ seat belts are black???? Not sure though.

 

would it be ugly if i dye them black?