I am sure most of you have some sunburned door panel edges on the top. Usually around the lock and up toward the front.

I did, and as I am striving to make this interior the absolute best it can be for the Cummins conversion I wanted them nice.

Additionally I also wanted the switch bezels and armrests to be black to match the dash.

Here's what I did, PICTURES Stewart below , LOL

1. Remove the door panels
2. If you want to respray the armrest remove these as well. There are 4 bolts that hold them on. Easy to do
3. Clean the door panels along the top edge and at least 6-8 inches down with, my favorite, purple stuff cleaner.
4. Clean the area again with prep sol
5. Repeat step 4
6. Mask off fake woodgrain area and about 6 inches lower to minimize overspray
7. Repeat step 4 with clean towel
8. Repeat step 7
9. Don't touch the areas you have cleaned with your filthy, oily hands

Now the trick here is you are not painting the whole door panel or area. You are lightly dusting the area and blending the paint in. If you start and the bottom, first cost should be tight then gradually add more area after each coat. Like a set of stairs, starting at the top.

When you are done, you should not be able to see where you did the work at all.

Of the pictures below, I did two of them out of the 4, can you tell?

Hope this helps

Paint used is also in the pictures for the door panel. The black is SEM Color Coat Black

 

Nice work for an old guy

 

Yeah, though its playing on me... Thanks LL

 

Hey, that's some nice work! I too have used the SEM stuff and it works very well.

I did my instrument bezel, and the forward piece of the console (that used to be cupholders and now is a "bucket"..i think from an earlier SD) and my only complaint was that I wished the black had been a bit duller.

At the risk of thread hi-jack.,..
Maybe a help to others with a flint interior...when I replaced the "hook" on the dash with a earlier ashtray, I used SEM Presidio for a good match. Used the same for a sill plate that was damaged. (Had it off, placed in a bad location and backed over it. Made it look like new with a heat gun and SEM)

 

Looks great!

 

Thanks, thought I would share in case someone else needs to do this.

 

Thx for sharing, this is tech folder worthy!

 

Thanks! Don't forget to rep me !

OK Stewart, here you go :-)

 

Reps sent lol

 

Thanks LL !

 

Agree, Gotcha.

 

I'll definitely need this for my F250. Thanks!

 

Would this work on the running boards. Mine need some help.

 

Great idea!

I tackled this little project a couple weeks ago myself when I had the door panels off to install the new tow mirrors.

 

Here they are finished and installed.