anyone had trouble painting your dash or other metal interior parts? I sanded some to bare metal cleaned primed sanded,and still had some places with fish eye. Any help apprecated. thanks Peewee

I had the same problem, but can not help you because mine still has the fish eyes. I thought I cleaned good but maybe not.

I was told to clean and degrease BEFORE sanding. Should work.

How do you Spell. silicone ???
DO not sand wash wash wash all area that could have gotton.. STP, sun of a gun, the green stuff or any of the interior shine,cleaner,protector products.... Now that you sanded them in ,, you need to CLEAN CLEAN CLEAN and then sand then WASH.. to prevent the dredded FISH EYE

Armour All, now you're seeing why this stuff is junk.

Originally posted by WayneK:
How do you Spell. silicone ???
DO not sand wash wash wash all area that could have gotton.. STP, sun of a gun, the green stuff or any of the interior shine,cleaner,protector products.... Now that you sanded them in ,, you need to CLEAN CLEAN CLEAN and then sand then WASH.. to prevent the dredded FISH EYE SYLECONE
Cant spell it smile.gif but can say I would rather change 10 quarter panels than deal with IT!! Its a painters nitemare :mad:
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I think the major trouble with armor all on these old interior paints is that the laquers and enamels used are dried to the point of actually absorbing the silicone down to the primer or metal usually requiring complete stripping of the old paint prior to repaint. I did a quickie on a friends car years ago that was waxed heavily. This car had at least 4 prior paint jobs built up. The old laquers and enamels had soaked up the wax like sponge. I ended up scotchbriting the complete car with wax and grease remover and 3m adhesive remover in heavy quantities to float the contaminants to the surface. I crossed my fingers and shot some primer on without a single fisheye!

I believe cigarette smoke resin/tar/scum causes alot problems also.I would use a good degreaser before painting interior parts.

I always spray the first couple of coats of paint really light. The paint has to be thick enough to create a fish eye so initial coats super light helps prevent them. Gives the paint some "tooth" to hang on also. If you are getting them you do have something there that shouldn't be as stated before.