Has anyone considered painting or actually painted their interior trim?

[Punter]

I have a wood grain interior trim, but I really like the metallic silver looking trim that comes in some E46s. It just crossed my mind to maybe take out all the trim pieces, put several good coats of metallic silver spray paint on it, and then several coats of lacquer, or possibily even take it to a body shop and have it professionally painted silver. I'm really picky about stuff looking perfect, especially in my car, so I'm not looking to do a crappy job here. Has anyone done this and if so how did it turn out?

[clor0x]

There was a member that did exactly this a month or two ago. He had wood trim and painted it cosmos black.

[Arman]

Something like this?





Not my car, but I'll be doing the same to mine soon....

[krogerBMW]

Well if you are concidering it go to www.paintscratch.com great place to find ALL the paint in the world...Perfect color match also... Good luck these are always easy and fun DIY projects

[AdrenalineRace]

someone on e46 fanatics painted their trim shadow chrome like the m3 csl was...that looked incredible, easily the best interior trim i have ever seen. Do a search on e46 fanatics for "shadow chrome", I think that should work. It seems kind of hard, you need to order the paint and paint it just right with a verryy verry light mist of the chrome paint over the black, but its definitely worth it

[Punter]

I think I might do a mix, have the pieces that run down the door painted the exterior color of my car, cosmos black, and then have the door pull done in the silver to tie in into the all silver center console, then do the same on the other door, and depending on price I might look into having the back of my vaders painted in the car's exterior color a la Porsche GT2

[KSHFLW]

I painted mine silver...

[BanginBeema]

to think people paint over wood when I just paid $125 for the e36 m3 lux wood console

[Midnight Shark]

I painted my luxury wood trim black, no pics available though.

[davan]

There's just something about painted plastic... *shudder* I'd rather save the money and buy actual trim pieces that color.

Maybe I've just seen too many poorly done ricers. I'd have to see one that's done up right.

[///RedPower]

check this recent post on another site. This trim is black, but it might give you some ideas.

http://www.bimmerforums.com/forum/sh...threadid=88432

Dan

[davan]

Originally posted by ///RedPower
check this recent post on another site. This trim is black, but it might give you some ideas.

http://www.bimmerforums.com/forum/sh...threadid=88432

Dan

Looks nice. I'm impressed.