[jousley]

I searched for this.. but only found a thread w/ no answers. how would one go about painting the rollbar padding? i have a white jeep w/ black interior and the rollbar padding is khaki....

can you paint the rollbar padding? how? what products? dye?

thanks in advance.
J.

[empie1983]

Maybe this would help
http://www.fabricspraypaint.com/

I would talk to a upholstery shop and ask them I think I have seen a paint for car interiors at Kragen before but I cant remember Good Luck.

[Viencent]

any rattle can plastic and vinyl paint will work, just did my seats and they turned out pretty good. Rollbar padding should be easy

[bucko132]

duplicolor sell and uplustry pait that might work

[Teddy]

I asked my local pepboys if it would work on the roll bar padding the guy turned to me said you want it for a jeep? and he took me around to their employee parking and showed me. Looks like he just brought it out from the factory it was beautiful

[jousley]

Teddy, what product did he use?

[DT5150]

duplicolor fabric and vinyl paint. you can get it at most parts stores. i did my back seat with it and it turned out great. durable too.

[jousley]

Another related question. What paint would I use to paint the underside of my soft top?

[green89yj]

I used Duplicolor on a bunch of my dash stuff and also on my arm rests on my doors (Sahara) it seems to be holding up well, and those are really flexy. I would think it would do good on roll bar padding. If you do a search you will find a thread where I posted a link to Duplicolor's website where one of their guys does a set of seats with it.

[HogeySpooner]

I used Duplicolor on my roll bar covers. They were dirty gray. I cleaned them up real well and painted them flat black. Armor alled them and they look brand new. This was 2 years ago. Still holding up!

[jousley]

Gonna do mine tomorrow.. i'll post some pics somewheres when they get done!

J.

[gilsilversport]

Originally Posted by jousley

Gonna do mine tomorrow.. i'll post some pics somewheres when they get done!

J.

How did it turn out any pics, did a search I thought I was going to have to get some of that RIT clothes dye or something...

Thanks,
Gilbert

[jousley]

Yeah it turned out great! I even painted my seats today... rattle can magic! The pics are on my wife's camera... put it up when she gets home from work. Man i love a good day off

J.

[jousley]

Found some pics... here are the seats - from grey to a nice black. I used rustoleum vinyl and fabric paint... as many coats as 4 cans would allow.
Never posted pics b4.. but here goes:

grey seats
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt202/jousley11/greyseats.jpg

black seats
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt202/jousley11/blackseats.jpg

They turned out pretty nice... i'll put em back in the jeep later

Secondly, the roll bar padding.. I don't have any pics of the b4.. but they were a nasty khaki brown color.. worst of all they were faded really badly in the sun. If you're going to do this - prepare to take off soft top strut thingies (that's the technical name) and all seatbelts.
Again, i used rustoleum vinyl & fabric paint:

black painted rollbar padding:
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt202/jousley11/blackpadding1.jpg
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt202/jousley11/blackpadding2.jpg
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt202/jousley11/blackpadding3.jpg

Tips for painting the roll bar padding:
1) put a lot of coats, as they face sun damage/wind/and are generally beat up a bit.. you don't want to have to do this again in six months
2) When they are done and dry - put on a thick coat of some armor all.. again for protection, and it softens em up a bit.. they will be a bit more stiff than you remember them from the paint..
3) its ok to paint all over the zippers - but before you put them back on your rig, zip up the zippers together a few times.. this will flake out some of the extra black paint in the zippers and will make it way easier to put them back on the jeep - again they are stiffer so it was a bit of a b*tch to get em back on... so run the zippers a few times to make it easier..

This was my first "mod" on my first jeep, and i'm pretty satisfied with it. I'll be doing a bunch o stuff and posting it all... to everyone - thanks to all for these greats posts in the forums, i have learned so much.
J.

[Morgen251]

I've heard using the fabric dye is the best way to take care of roll bar padding.....I'm sure a search on roll bar dye would provide results.