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Old Feb 14, 2007 | 02:40 PM
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Originally Posted by pesci
I was bored tonight so I decided to paint my visors black, since Nissan does not offer them.. It is relatively easy to do..

First you will need some Dupli-Color Fabric & Vinyl paint.. Auto Zone $5 and some Paint Prep cleaner.. $5.. This is used to take all Oil and stuff off the area to be painted..








You can either mask off the labels on the visors or just paint over them. The long sun blocker piece will pull out of the visor with little effort.





The Mirrors are held into place by two small pressure clips that can be pushed up by a small flat head screw driver..










After everything is disassembled, Clean it with the cleaner, (except for material) (Plastic only) and apply one or two light coats of paint.. Apply several coats till you are happy with the color and then paint all the plastic accessories..




The accessories will be easy to paint.




Once everything is painted and dried, Reassemble and install back into the car..

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Feel free to PM me if you have any questions..

Do you need to apply a clear coat to the finished fabric pieces ???
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Old Feb 14, 2007 | 06:41 PM
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No
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Old Feb 14, 2007 | 07:14 PM
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Where's the finished pics??
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Old Feb 14, 2007 | 10:12 PM
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Originally Posted by BhashaZ
How many cans of fabric paint would be required to do the entire headliner plus the visors?
4-5 is your best bet.
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Old Feb 14, 2007 | 11:31 PM
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I just painted the sun visors tonight. I thought I did a pretty good job at masking off the airbag warning, but obviously not. So tomorrow I will be justthrowing a coat or two over it. The fabric itself though and all the other pieces turned out awesome. Anyone got a DIY on how to get that headliner out?
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Old Feb 15, 2007 | 07:36 PM
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Any color transfer issues when touching them?
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Old Feb 15, 2007 | 10:35 PM
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I didnt have any. The paint also drys very very quickly. Just make sure that if you are going to keep he airbag warnings you mask wellor else it will get under the tape. I have to paint over mine here soon, then I'm going to do the headliner if i can figure out how to get it out. Thanks for the DIY
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Old Feb 21, 2007 | 06:33 AM
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someone please post pics of a finished headliner
thanks
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Old Feb 24, 2007 | 09:14 PM
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Just finished painting the headliner. Going to put it back in whitin the hours with pics to follow.
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Old Feb 24, 2007 | 09:43 PM
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Originally Posted by 702Fairlady
Just finished painting the headliner. Going to put it back in whitin the hours with pics to follow.
Was it easy to remove the headliner? And do you have side-curtain airbags? Waiting for pix!
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Old Feb 24, 2007 | 10:11 PM
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Getting the headliner out wasnt too difficult, but I would definatly recommend you have someone there to help you out a little bit. the only thing really holding up the liner are the 4 pressure gromets in the rear, the 2 sin visor clips that, and 2 pressure clips that hold the domelight assembly to the roof. To get the visor clips off just turn em to the right half a turn and they pull out. Other than that you just have to kinda run you finger along the visor to get it to release from the top. There is only about 1/8th-1/4th inch of headliner running along the sides. I am about to start putting the liner in the car right now...
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Old Feb 25, 2007 | 12:00 AM
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Well, the project would have been done tonight, but umm some stuff stuff stopped me. I got the headliner back in the car and everything. But somehow I lost the screws that hold the visor up LOLOL. So if somebody knws the size of the screw so I can pick some up tomorrow that would be just dandy LOL
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Old Feb 25, 2007 | 12:58 AM
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How many cans did you use for the entire headliner?Anything need to do before painting it?
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Old Feb 25, 2007 | 03:49 PM
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702 what happened? did you get those screws?
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Old Feb 25, 2007 | 03:55 PM
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I just got off of work and am about to go to autozone right now LOL. I'l go takea quick pic right now. of the headliner without the sunvisors up.
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Old Feb 25, 2007 | 03:58 PM
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very nice
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Old Feb 25, 2007 | 04:11 PM
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There are a few spots on the liner that I have to touch up after getting it into the car. When you put the liner back in the car make sure you put a plastic bag over your headrest so that they dont make rubmarks on the liner. I have about 3 areas that i have to touch up when its a little less windy out. I'm going to have to find a way to spray inside the car, but that will be anohter time. Also make sure you have someone there when you are putting the liner back in makes it 100x easier.








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Old Feb 25, 2007 | 04:14 PM
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wow, looks OEM, nice job.
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Old Feb 25, 2007 | 04:15 PM
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that looks sick
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Old Feb 25, 2007 | 04:15 PM
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awesome job! looks goooood!
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