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Styling colour coding

charlieboy

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need more red at the front.lol. was thinkin of the lower part of the centre console(were gear lever is) and the steering column cover

what ppl think? i have no idea so if anyone has a bit of spare time and wants to do a PS feel free

cheers charlie
 
I am personally not too fond of interior colour coding except if it is in silver!!

Keep in mind that you have to be careful after spraying it that you dont scratch it with nails or rings!!
 
have some pics.

if i gets sratched it would just be a case of touching up the paint.
 

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I just did a quick chop of it, and IMO you should leave it as it is. I did silver aswell, which looks ok...

The page you requested isnt there muppet. If you got this from a link please email me the link ( /gallery.html) and your browser (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0)

can't see your gallery luke :eek:
 
Have to admit that a lot of interior colour coding I've seen looks pretty Ugh! Personally I'm not too keen in colour coding dash tops or instrument cowling tops. If the colour is too bright it also reflects badly in the windscreen and is disconcerting while driving. That's why most manufacturers use blacks/ greys or dark matt colours in the first place!

Also, it's hard to paint plastic effectively. Often the paint chips or scratches easily and ends up looking pretty scruffy.

However, colour coded detailing if done tastefully can look pretty good. Little bits highlighted can make a difference, but going over everything in the same colour just looks over the top.

Still, each to their own. And my Uno still has the lovely dark brown dashboard and interior! Taste indeed!
 
1986Uno45S said:
Have to admit that a lot of interior colour coding I've seen looks pretty Ugh! Personally I'm not too keen in colour coding dash tops or instrument cowling tops. If the colour is too bright it also reflects badly in the windscreen and is disconcerting while driving. That's why most manufacturers use blacks/ greys or dark matt colours in the first place!

Also, it's hard to paint plastic effectively. Often the paint chips or scratches easily and ends up looking pretty scruffy.

However, colour coded detailing if done tastefully can look pretty good. Little bits highlighted can make a difference, but going over everything in the same colour just looks over the top.

Still, each to their own. And my Uno still has the lovely dark brown dashboard and interior! Taste indeed!

Mine too :yuck: BUT, will be going soon!
 
Mine looked pretty grotty in brown too especially as it had faded because of the sunlight exposure. However, I used some 'back to black' plastic spray on it, then a good coating of Armoral silicone spray. Made it a lot darker and nicer looking. Now it's a sort of dark charcoal brown colour which looks much better. I'm quite happy with the way it is now so will leave it that way!
 
1986Uno45S said:
Mine looked pretty grotty in brown too especially as it had faded because of the sunlight exposure. However, I used some 'back to black' plastic spray on it, then a good coating of Armoral silicone spray. Made it a lot darker and nicer looking. Now it's a sort of dark charcoal brown colour which looks much better. I'm quite happy with the way it is now so will leave it that way!

I'm treating mine to a full respray with black foliatech interior spray :D i gotta do some repairs too so may aswell spray it and hide the work
 
i think choosing just a few small areas to colour code is the way forward, i went for the re-trimmed steering wheel, with the outer rim and centre boss in black, with red spokes, which i think is nice....
 
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