First I'll polish my french. I'll start by watching Ratatouille from Disney, lol!

 

I dislike black interiors. They always look dirty.

 

Oh wow, that looks nice!!

 

How did you remove the storage bins? Is it just popping a flat head screwdriver into the clips on the sides?

 

Gerry,
when you get through watching ratitoulie, what kind of sandable texture paint did you use in between and did you wet sand or dry sand with a fine grit or try to go through 2-3 stages of sanding. I'm gonna do mine and thinking it will be a bit of a pia since mine is the bahama beige and figure I will have to do it all to make it match properly

 

Exactly, but get the plastic trim removal tool. They are much wider and linger for deep trim locks like those. You can get the plastic caps (not sure what its called) if you need to plug the holes.
Gerry

 

Jayson,
There is no sanding required. Any sanding strokes or line will show when paint dries. I meant, the paint itself need to have texture and its sand texture. Like hammered or wrinkeled but instead sand. You need to get the feel of the sand when you touch it. You can feel the cap on the spray can to tell the texture. In your case, you need to get the nearest sand texture finish then, get the gloss almond and then clear coat it with matte finish. There used to be a paint exactly like the discovery trim but cant find it anymore with a light sand texture. I know its almond not beige. This is Home Depot bro but get
SEM Automotive Material Dye
They have more colors to choose from and more likely they have the ones of your choice.
The most important thing, whatever end color you choose, you have to get the sand texture paint near your color, spray a good amount in a small cup, get a pencil brush and touch up all the deep scratches with the textured paint. At the end, youll have a clean even look and dont over spray. Cheers!
Gerry

 

When I paint plastic I use degreaser and clean parts using scotchpads and go over them lightly to rid of grease and prep the surface for painting. Thoroughly rinse and dry afterwards.

There are also adhesion promoters that dries tacky that you can use.

 

i love me some krudd kutter. That stuff will clean just about anything. I guess I know what I'll be doing come spring time when I get a few days off

 

I use alchohol as a final prep before painting any plastics and before that a grease and wax removal as well. to hide minor scratches in the plastic parts. I sprayed all mine with rustoleum plastic hammered finish. it came out great. I was able to take the kaki look and turn the whole inside hammered black.