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has anyone painted the sunvisors/

Old Feb 21, 2006 | 02:41 AM
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i'm thinking about painting my sunvisors, but i'm not sure yet. Has anyone done this and if you have do you have any pics.
Old Feb 21, 2006 | 02:49 AM
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id like to know to, i just had my headliner done and now the visors dont match, ive got the paint (or dye) for interiors but theres to much to tape off and the warning sticker would look horrible painted over
Old Feb 21, 2006 | 02:52 AM
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well, i just did my pillars and like you my visors don't match as far as the waring sticker i'll sand first prime then paint, everything outta be aight after that.
Old Feb 21, 2006 | 02:59 AM
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ya but the visors are flexible platic almost so you cant put a bunch of layers of paint on them and if you noticed the visors are textured and the warning label is not
Old Feb 21, 2006 | 03:02 AM
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well, we'll see what happens
Old Feb 21, 2006 | 03:07 AM
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ya good luck i kinda like the look with out but let us know how it turns out, what kind of paint are you gunna use?
Old Feb 21, 2006 | 03:09 AM
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as in color or brand?
Old Feb 21, 2006 | 03:19 AM
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as in brand and what type, the local auto guy gave me SEM i think its a plastic dye type spray paint
Old Feb 21, 2006 | 03:20 AM
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dupli-color, it's what i used for my pillars
Old Feb 21, 2006 | 03:40 AM
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did them myself..... for more pics check out page 2 of my WWW
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I would stay away from the paint and wrap them in fabric. The paint will likely crack and peel on the highly flexible visors, but if you do it, please post pics.
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very nice but not painted
Old Feb 21, 2006 | 04:08 AM
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how did you put the pic up without putting a link to a website.
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Originally Posted by superfreestyle
did them myself..... for more pics check out page 2 of my WWW
what material did you use on the visors and headliner?
Old Feb 21, 2006 | 04:16 AM
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it is from culp textile company... it is used on lazyboy and benchcraft furniture.... i am a furniture retailer
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To answer your question on showing a picture in your reply, I wrote this in your painting pillars thread:

To post a pic from a website, in this case photobucket, you will need to type the following to post a picture. I'm using your picture as an example. I disabled the BBCode in this post. If you type this same line, the picture will appear. Photobucket includes this line below each picture.

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Originally Posted by superfreestyle
it is from culp textile company... it is used on lazyboy and benchcraft furniture.... i am a furniture retailer
the color looks badass..it is green correct?
i want to do my headliner and visors too but they will be in a darker gray color cause my apillars are already wrapped in dark gray
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Old Feb 21, 2006 | 04:28 AM
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hoo-rah for me.......i did it.....lol
Old Feb 21, 2006 | 05:09 AM
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we did on both of ours

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