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Painting the inside of the door

in Improving your pride and joy and how to fix things Wed Apr 20, 2022 5:05 pm
by Stan Doori | 223 Posts

Has anyone painted the inside of the main door successfully? Ours is discoloured and has faded in places. What sort of paint did anyone use please?


Triton 430 1997 Jubilé
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RE: Painting the inside of the door

in Improving your pride and joy and how to fix things Wed Apr 20, 2022 5:26 pm
by eribaMotters | 5.591 Posts

Stan, you may find that either a tile and melamine primer or multi surface primer will stick to the plastic. It is then a matter of choosing a finish to go over the top. This should really be an acrylic or water based finish as these are more flexible than oil based and also tend to be more colourfast.
I would not however bother, I'd just leave it, as you will not get the colour match correct and Im guessing the surface finish would not be as good as you hoped it would.

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RE: Painting the inside of the door

in Improving your pride and joy and how to fix things Wed Apr 20, 2022 9:43 pm
by Derekcbr (deleted)
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On any plastic you must use an etch primer. You will be able to buy this from car paint suppliers and you should be able to get a good paint match. The trouble is you need to be good at spray painting to get a good finish. If you are not able to spray you could take off the door and get it done professionally. A costly process and as Colin suggests, think carefully before you go ahead and cost it out.


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RE: Painting the inside of the door

in Improving your pride and joy and how to fix things Thu Apr 21, 2022 5:41 pm
by Stan Doori | 223 Posts

Thank you for the replies. On balance I don't reckon I will be painting the door. Will think of something to cover the areas which are discoloured.


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RE: Painting the inside of the door

in Improving your pride and joy and how to fix things Thu Apr 21, 2022 6:15 pm
by eribaMotters | 5.591 Posts

In the good old days you could buy some Blue Peter style sticky back plastic.
How about a trip to your local sigh writer for some coloured adhesive film?

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RE: Painting the inside of the door

in Improving your pride and joy and how to fix things Thu Apr 21, 2022 7:15 pm
by Simboc2004 | 788 Posts

What colour were the inner doors originally? It's hard to tell from looking at them and I don't recall ever seeing a non-faded one! I intend to do mine; I have some experience with spraying, so should be able to do a good job. One of my grey shelf supports is damaged, so I need to replace/fix that as well. both require removal of the door liner, so that seems to make sense :-))


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RE: Painting the inside of the door

in Improving your pride and joy and how to fix things Thu Apr 21, 2022 7:33 pm
by eribaMotters | 5.591 Posts

If you want an idea of original colour, pre-shading, the attached are of my 2001 Triton photographed in 2003. I've included the bathroom as the plastics in there also fade, but to a lesser extent.

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RE: Painting the inside of the door

in Improving your pride and joy and how to fix things Thu Apr 21, 2022 7:52 pm
by Simboc2004 | 788 Posts

Very pale cream, then... almost nothing else that colour in my 2005 Triton, so I'm tempted to colour match to the pale grey door handle, which looks a bit strange on the almost yellow door liner...


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RE: Painting the inside of the door

in Improving your pride and joy and how to fix things Thu Apr 21, 2022 7:59 pm
by eribaMotters | 5.591 Posts

The door was basically a warm/off white. I would not attempt to take it back to this colour. I would aim to match or compliment something the eye was drawn to in the van.

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RE: Painting the inside of the door

in Improving your pride and joy and how to fix things Thu Apr 21, 2022 10:42 pm
by Stan Doori | 223 Posts

This shows the door as it was when we bought the van. The worst bits are under the badges which a previous owner had stuck on with blutak. It needs something doing with it, just not sure what! Screenshot_20220421-223654.png - Bild entfernt (keine Rechte)


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RE: Painting the inside of the door

in Improving your pride and joy and how to fix things Fri Apr 22, 2022 8:41 am
by eribaMotters | 5.591 Posts

Next option as you obviously really want to do something. Lift the door off the hinge pins, put it ino the back of the car and take it to a car spray shop and ask what they can do and ho much.

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RE: Painting the inside of the door

in Improving your pride and joy and how to fix things Fri Apr 22, 2022 10:10 am
by Poptop320 | 2.631 Posts

I haven't painted my Eriba door, however I successfully spray painted my white fitted bedroom furniture doors about 5 years ago which had gone yellow with the sunlight. I used Platikote paint which is made for spraying onto plastic, it has been very durable with no chips or scratches.


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RE: Painting the inside of the door

in Improving your pride and joy and how to fix things Mon Apr 25, 2022 6:41 pm
by Simboc2004 | 788 Posts

Anyone know how to remove the door liner complete? or is it far easier just to mask up in situ? I'd prefer to remove it as spraying would be better when it's horizontal...


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