rallye dash housing

[realn96]

 I am putting together the dash for my cuda today . I have a new rallye wood plate from performance car graphics that I was getting ready to install. I noticed that my black plastic housing was pretty dirty so I am cleaning it up. My question to everyone is the four round tunnels on the housing that go down to the gauges, are they supposed to be painted? or just polish up the black plastic and call it a day? 

[VCODE]

Check this out. Original brown paint
Bob

[Shane Kelley]

I freshened up my plastic housing with SEM trim black before putting it together.  Made it look like brand new.

[Claudia]

I freshened up my plastic housing with SEM trim black before putting it together.  Made it look like brand new.

I did the same!

[realn96]

Thanks guys!!

[HEMICUDA]

The "tunnels" are textured paint.  That's the only part of the housing that was painted and not bare plastic.  That was done so there wasn't any glare coming off the smooth bare plastic.  SEM does work very well.

[1 Wild R/T]

I freshened up my plastic housing with SEM trim black before putting it together.  Made it look like brand new.

I did the same!

Your brown is to shiny & to red...I'd redo it...

[Claudia]

I freshened up my plastic housing with SEM trim black before putting it together.  Made it look like brand new.

I did the same!

Your brown is to shiny & to red...I'd redo it...

I also had the same opinion when I was building the dash out of the car.
However, once I installed the dash into the car it looked completely different . . . at least in my opinion.
Maybe it's just the lighting.

[Shane Kelley]

It should be more brown.  Top is original and bottom is Performance Graphics.

[realn96]

The "tunnels" are textured paint.  That's the only part of the housing that was painted and not bare plastic.  That was done so there wasn't any glare coming off the smooth bare plastic.  SEM does work very well.

That's what I thought was on there! I knew there must have been some type of paint on there that gave it that look. I wasn't sure if it was that or my housing tunnels where messed up from the sun ! Thanks Mike. What type of textured paint should I use??

[realn96]

Hold on I forgot! I have the textured paint that I used on the dash face and steering column! 

[HEMICUDA]

Hold on I forgot! I have the textured paint that I used on the dash face and steering column! 

Odds are, all the paint is still on the tunnels, leave it and freshen up the whole bezel and tunnels with the SEM.

[Spikedog08]

Great thread!  Something I'm working on soon!   

[71-440]

OK so you might laugh at this but what the heck is SEM?   

[realn96]

OK so you might laugh at this but what the heck is SEM?   

https://www.ebay.com/itm/SEM-15013-Landau-Black-Color-Coat-12-oz/112207070436?epid=1711857909&hash=item1a201004e4:g:tG8AAOSwSdFZf-5N