Brighten Up Interior cheap and easy

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Brightened up the interior of my CJ. ES Sport.

Solid Chrome 9mm pin striping tape along the top beveled part of the silver trim strip on the dash and front doors. Certainly added some sparkle and brightened the interior but not entirely happy with it. Will do for the time being .
 
bling bling, its the little things
One thing id do if i owned a CJ would be take the long plastic strips off the door and dash and 3M wrap them in a brushed aluminium look.
I may not be a mechanical guru, but interior trimming is where I have loads of fun
 
bling bling, its the little things
One thing id do if i owned a CJ would be take the long plastic strips off the door and dash and 3M wrap them in a brushed aluminium look.
I may not be a mechanical guru, but interior trimming is where I have loads of fun

Will remove plastic strips in due course. Considering painting them, rather than covering them, may be red, or car colour, silver or consider getting them chromed.

Will use some from wreckers and keep mine original . Just in case!
 
bling bling, its the little things
One thing id do if i owned a CJ would be take the long plastic strips off the door and dash and 3M wrap them in a brushed aluminium look.
I may not be a mechanical guru, but interior trimming is where I have loads of fun

Will remove plastic strips in due course. Considering painting them, rather than covering them, may be red, or car colour, silver or consider getting them chromed.

Will use some from wreckers and keep mine original . Just in case!
 
Will remove plastic strips in due course. Considering painting them, rather than covering them, may be red, or car colour, silver or consider getting them chromed.

Will use some from wreckers and keep mine original . Just in case!

Or for fun you could use a plastidip type of paint which is not permanent to see what you like. I've used it before on lots of different things (cars, bass guitars, air conditioners..) and it's non destructive and peels off. TBH it's a pain to peel off but it only takes a few minutes for a large piece.

I recently painted my centre strip and head unit surround on my VRX in some left over plum custom wrap spray for laughs as I hated the silver that it came stock with. I do have some 3M carbon fiber wrap for the bits but in a recent rewire of my head unit I thought I would just chuck it on. My wife is not too happy about the colour, and it's grown on me, but I'll eventually take it off to wrap the bits. Note that the finish is matte with the Duplicolour, the Plastidip brand can get shiny with a base coat and shiny clear coat.

Also it's designed to come off so it can chip etc if you are not careful so it may not be good for "high traffic" areas like handles etc. but so far I've had no issues.

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Brightened up the interior of my CJ. ES Sport.

Solid Chrome 9mm pin striping tape along the top beveled part of the silver trim strip on the dash and front doors. Certainly added some sparkle and brightened the interior but not entirely happy with it. Will do for the time being .

Have replaced 9mm pinstriping with 10mm Bodyline wheel arch moulding from SuperCheap $20.75c Made big difference to finish. Now looks and feels like it always was there! Really happy with the result.
Haven't bothered with new picture as picture wise it looks much the same as the one that is here already, the imperfections with the pinstripe don't show up on the picture.

Next. Considering 15mm chrome moulding along full length of car on either side, along ridge from top of tail light to top of headlights. Bit of external Bling. give the car an upmarket look!!!??
I may be wrong but I have a feeling, we will be seeing a lot more chrome on cars in the near future.
 
That upmarket look died in like 2005. Manufacturers are moving for highlights rather than long strips on the car. Have a look at all the newer model euro cars, they're all painted with black plastic inserts made to look like glass. Continuing lines everywhere. Etc
 
That upmarket look died in like 2005. Manufacturers are moving for highlights rather than long strips on the car. Have a look at all the newer model euro cars, they're all painted with black plastic inserts made to look like glass. Continuing lines everywhere. Etc

Was thinking of using two line black pinstripe alternatively. Would go more towards sport look. Chrome would match aged design not far off 2005!!! Either will give car a nice longer look.
Given time strips will be back. Already appearing on the front and rear and chrome or part chrome as rubbing (protection) strips on the sides.
 
Have replaced 9mm pinstriping with 10mm Bodyline wheel arch moulding from SuperCheap $20.75c Made big difference to finish. Now looks and feels like it always was there! Really happy with the result.
Haven't bothered with new picture as picture wise it looks much the same as the one that is here already, the imperfections with the pinstripe don't show up on the picture.

Next. Considering 15mm chrome moulding along full length of car on either side, along ridge from top of tail light to top of headlights. Bit of external Bling. give the car an upmarket look!!!??
I may be wrong but I have a feeling, we will be seeing a lot more chrome on cars in the near future.
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