Well, I had an extra dash set for pre-05's lying around and found a buyer for a gloss black dash.

Before and after pictures below.

Whatcha think?

Before.



Dash off



This is me.



This is Ben.



SHIZZAM!







Now, onto doing his door panels.

If anyone is interested, please PM me.

Shoe

 

Stylish... Good job. It will be hard to see at night

 

Hey whats going on buddy?
This is sam from long island.

Dash looks hot! I've been wanting to do that to my dash and paint it electric blue to match the color of the car. (just dont know how to remove it and get it to the bodyshop....:=)

 

Looking good. Now do the 2 vertical pieces.



CasaMini

 

Thanks!

Thanks1 The dash is not hard to take off.....You just have to be careful with the airbag part...and btw I thought you were selling your Mini, no?

Thanks! Ben (the guy I did it for) likes the contrasting silver and black....so he's going to keep the downtubes stock.... But I painted mine.....Thing is, I have the silver dash with black door panels. Have to do my dash next!

Shoe

 

Nicely done. Please post the doors once they are done, curious to see how they look.

 

Thanks.

I posted about my doors already.

Click on the pic to go to the thread with all the other pics......

Click on the other pic to see my thread about the downtubes.

 

yummy

I love the black

 

Yeah.. I like the Silver/black.. keeping the downtubes silver.. and the door panels I think I'll keep the center part silver, but paint the bucket and ring black to match the dash..... also want to keep the door handle/tweeter pod silver..

As far as at night? Its really cool b/c its so reflective..

it was starting to get dark out..

 

very nice!

 

Looks great, especially not having those stupid little circles that Mini does!!

 

Thanks!

Thanks..... I am still trying to figure out why they have those circles!

 

So did you use the spray can, or did you brush the paint on? I'm really wanting to do this. I've painted my dash, but need to re-do some parts that have scratched. Used a spray can from paintworldusa.com. I'm a little leery of spraying my door panels. I just know I'll overspray too much.

 

Spray can from www.paintscratch.com.

No brushing.

The way to prevent overspray is to take your panels off and cover them up with masking tape and paper.

Btw that site is no good.

 

oops - paintworldinc.com How many cans does it take for the door panels?

 

Depends on how much of the door panel you plan on doing.

I painted my entire door panel black including the non-glossy parts...I think I used two cans to do that......+ 1 can of clearcoat for the glossy parts....

 

Now, I've just got to wait until it warms up a bit. Don't think I want to do this inside my apartment.

 

Hi Y'all..

I've been wanting a painted dash ever since I got my 03 MCS. I have the lovely "alloy" dash and it would be nice to have it a matching red.

I was excited when reading about similar efforts here, but when I spoke with a body shop, they were dubious. Their concern was that it would be a safety risk to have the cover to the airbag painted -- something about the chips flying off in an accident.

Thoughts?

 

WOW that looks NICE, I'm thinking of doing this once Im done with everything else on my list, it may be a while but nice work

 

Ahh.... memories..... sometimes I do miss that painted black dash....

 

I tried to paint my dash. Turned out alright not up to my pro standards so i covered it in vinyl. Still not happy haha

 

I gave it to a body shop to get it done. Here are the results:

 

Yep should have taken your advice haha

 

That is beautiful!!

 

Ok, I want to do the same. I can get 4 out of 5 dash pieces off. How the h*ll do you get the airbag cover off?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!