Oxydized seat back/door panel semi fix

For years I've just scraped the dead plastic from these items, and then painted them, shrugged my shoulders and said that's as good as I can get em. Last nite I was playing in the garage, and had half a can of wrinkle finish paint left over from doing my air cleaner, and figured why not. I had a seat back with lots of dead plastic, gouges, smears, etc, so I sanded it with 80 grit, then 100, cleaned it with lacquer thinner, then shot a light coat of wrinkle finish paint. Put it near the heat, and then checked it out this morning.... Wow.... Not a true grain, but it fakes it pretty well, and it hides most of the defects I could never get out of the good surface beneath the dead plastic. Yea, I'm gonna do the other back tonite, no more dreaming of finding a really good set.

I've had the same problems with the plastic......but never tried a wrinkle......

It'd be great if you could post some pics.........:santa:

Tom, I just posted a before and after pic in my galleries, the one named "Some of the Mopars..." that's the only way I've figured out how to do pics so far. Maybe someday I'll be literate enough to put them in the post

Apparently the chemical makeup of the plastic changed when it was made any color other than black (which I would guess was the native color of the plastic) and they deteriorate in the sun. Black ones always last, so the thing to do (if you need colored ones) is find some original black ones and color them. That's what I did for my Challenger.

Hey, a new wrinkle in restoration techniques. Sorry, couldn't pass up the pun. :grin:

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The "After" pic really looks good. Thanks for the tip!

Problem you will have if you didn't put a poly plastic primer is the wrinkle It is going to flake off. It don't bond to the plastic, it just lays there. The poly primer bonds to the poly plastic. In turn enamels and spray lacquer will bond to the primer. The wrinkle is a great idea. I'll bet with proper priming a guy could go over the wrinkle with color. It's always great when a person comes up with a new way to do it and I've doing it 50 yrs.