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Restoring Dash and Door wood panels

So, here's another question. Anyone do anything to "restore" the late 80's "wood" trim in a silverado? Its basically the equivalent of decals, or painted on wood on the horizontal trim pieces. But mine is starting to fade :(

same thing... the difference between polishing plastic and vinyl is you need to be much more careful about heat generated from a machine buffer on the vinyl... it'll burn/melt much easier.... also plastic has much more workability to it... there's only so much you can do with vinyl.. plastics you can actually wetsand, etc... vinyl, ya can't...


you can put "miracle" clear polymers on it and it will shine like a mofo for awhile.... but they suck when they start to fail... then you have even more work dealing with peeling/fading polymer..
 
same thing... the difference between polishing plastic and vinyl is you need to be much more careful about heat generated from a machine buffer on the vinyl... it'll burn/melt much easier.... also plastic has much more workability to it... there's only so much you can do with vinyl.. plastics you can actually wetsand, etc... vinyl, ya can't...


you can put "miracle" clear polymers on it and it will shine like a mofo for awhile.... but they suck when they start to fail... then you have even more work dealing with peeling/fading polymer..


Really, i think the ink has probably faded off the plastic.....not jsut gotten cloudy. Guess i'll look into new trim pieces instead of worrying about polishing.


Just curious, don't really plan on fixing it right now.
 
i bet if you really hade the want to you could make some real woodin inserts and use like this finish called jimcoat lays down really thick, id say it would look pretty sharp
 
I've seen companies that can do overlays on anything, I wonder how much it would cost
 
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