Did mine today. Going to attempt the dash bezel next. Is it really that hard to do? Does everything have to be masked off or do the trim pieces come off? Is there a write up out there? Thanks ahead of time for any advice.

 

You can pop off the silver steering wheel spoke accents. They'll be black underneath.

 

Sorry to brake the bad news to you... You are going to have to mask the cluster! it's not hard but takes some time to get around the edges. Be careful when you separate the clear cover from the main cluster side clips brake off easy. I had to do some operating with some super glue.

 

Awe man! Thanks for the help. I'll attempt it next weekend!

 

Anyone with factory black AC vent rings contemplating silver want to swap with my Sahara silver ones ('09) and avoid having to paint?

 

An unusually warm Saturday, so I decided to do armycop's six dollar dash upgrade (which, as someone else mentioned should really now be called the 7 dollar dash upgrade). Three of my vents came out perfectly easy with the quarter-turn method; one was a little stubborn and kept catching on the way out so I very carefully coaxed it free with a flat-head screwdriver. The first coat had me worried (even though I had cleaned them well), but by the fourth coat they were looking good.

all out

rings

I also wanted to do the gauge cluster, but taping was tricky, as I only had duct-tape on hand - not the best for masking, and as you can see I'll have to redo the cluster cause parts of the paint stayed with the duct-tape. :(



I also wanted to do the shift boot bezel (as opposed to paying 60.00 for the aluminim one), but since it and the boot are really one piece I had to get creative with the masking. I had read on another forum about using playing cards when working on fender flares and wondered if this method might work on the boot - it did great!

masking

unmasking

I could tell immediatly, though, that the bezel was reactiving differently to the paint - doh! forgot to clean it first. You can't tell here, but I'll have to sand and redo it as well, it didn't turn out near as well as the vent rings - lesson learned.



Still, all in all, I love the way it turned out!



Next up, an even more difficult one: cleaning out the center console!!!

 

Here's some pics of mine:

 

So I painted my vents, and im either color blind or the cap of the paint was wrong. anyway they cameout like this:


Honestly does this look gay or is it alright? idk if i like the sparkle-ness i may re paint them to match the tan accents on the side of the radio

 

It looks awesome!!!!

 

did the flame red, i still need to pull the gauge cluster but you cant do everything at once or you'd have nothing to do later!