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Just painted my console, what do you think. #364716 Jan 3, 9:53pm Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 347 Baytown, TX vaio23 Member 2003 Toyota Celica vaio23 Member 2003 Toyota Celica Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 347 Baytown, TX I just followed the paint guide over at ecelica and deceided to paint my console. I used duplicolor metallic black. I took it all apart and painted everything that was painted in the factory color. I think it turned out nice, just need the ac decals. Let me know what you think. Here are a few pics. Primered After color, clear and polish I will take some pics inside my car once I put it back together. Should look really good with my 03 interior. 2003 Celica GT with Hotchkis Drop

Re: Just painted my console, what do you think. vaio23 #364717 Jan 3, 9:55pm Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,227 Likes: 1 Massachusetts FloydianSlip6 Specialist 2002 Toyota Celica FloydianSlip6 Specialist 2002 Toyota Celica Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,227 Likes: 1 Massachusetts nice work! good job!

Re: Just painted my console, what do you think. FloydianSlip6 #364718 Jan 3, 9:56pm Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 317 North Carolina eclipseturbogsx Member 2001 Toyota Celica GT eclipseturbogsx Member 2001 Toyota Celica GT Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 317 North Carolina ooooooo...nice...keep it up

Re: Just painted my console, what do you think. eclipseturbogsx #364719 Jan 3, 9:58pm Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 3,977 San Diego, CA Zero Furi Kuri 2002 Toyota Celica GT Zero Furi Kuri 2002 Toyota Celica GT Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 3,977 San Diego, CA sweet ass. super black I've mastered the art of the After Image Technique.

Re: Just painted my console, what do you think. Zero #364720 Jan 3, 10:00pm Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 2,869 Washington cycocelica daman 2000 Toyota Celica GT cycocelica daman 2000 Toyota Celica GT Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 2,869 Washington want to do mine

Re: Just painted my console, what do you think. cycocelica #364721 Jan 3, 10:16pm Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 164 Sherman, TX cwsample Member 2001 Toyota Celica cwsample Member 2001 Toyota Celica Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 164 Sherman, TX i want to do mine, but where can you get AC decals?

Re: Just painted my console, what do you think. cwsample #364722 Jan 3, 10:20pm Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 347 Baytown, TX vaio23 Member 2003 Toyota Celica vaio23 Member 2003 Toyota Celica Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 347 Baytown, TX Originally Posted by cwsample i want to do mine, but where can you get AC decals? From b0x over at the other celica site. 2003 Celica GT with Hotchkis Drop

Re: Just painted my console, what do you think. vaio23 #364723 Jan 3, 10:40pm Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 94 Dyess AF Base, Abilene, TX racergts03 Member 2003 Toyota Celica racergts03 Member 2003 Toyota Celica Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 94 Dyess AF Base, Abilene, TX Looks great, nice work. I'll be doing mine soon, but I'm gonna go with gloss black.

Re: Just painted my console, what do you think. racergts03 #364724 Jan 3, 11:08pm Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 1,869 Likes: 1 San Francisco, CA Chelica815 Specialist 2000 Toyota Celica Chelica815 Specialist 2000 Toyota Celica Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 1,869 Likes: 1 San Francisco, CA I want to do the same exact thing. Can you list the exact parts you need and purchased. How much did everything cost you in the end? Aggressively Driven 2000 Celica GT-S 6 Speed

Re: Just painted my console, what do you think. Chelica815 #364725 Jan 4, 5:01am Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 1,298 Annapolis, Maryland sickcelica696 Specialist 2000 Toyota Celica sickcelica696 Specialist 2000 Toyota Celica Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 1,298 Annapolis, Maryland very nice, awesome color also

Re: Just painted my console, what do you think. sickcelica696 #364726 Jan 4, 5:30am Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 1,353 Belgium Veilside Specialist 2004 Toyota Celica GT Veilside Specialist 2004 Toyota Celica GT Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 1,353 Belgium good job

Re: Just painted my console, what do you think. Veilside #364727 Jan 4, 7:14am Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 448 Plymouth, MA Sara Mean Old Hag 2001 Toyota Celica GT Sara Mean Old Hag 2001 Toyota Celica GT Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 448 Plymouth, MA Nice Some of the ugliest things took the longest time to make And some of the easiest habits are the hardest one's to break!!!

Re: Just painted my console, what do you think. Sara #364728 Jan 4, 9:39am Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 3,744 Gainesville, FL hombredelassrtas CF Connoisseur 2004 Toyota Celica hombredelassrtas CF Connoisseur 2004 Toyota Celica Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 3,744 Gainesville, FL sweet job. lookn good. jsut wish it didnt cover ac lights

Re: Just painted my console, what do you think. hombredelassrtas #364729 Jan 4, 9:41am Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 1,029 California kmlgts Specialist 2000 Toyota Celica kmlgts Specialist 2000 Toyota Celica Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 1,029 California nice

Re: Just painted my console, what do you think. kmlgts #364730 Jan 4, 9:50am Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 96 the netherlands spaceman Member spaceman Member Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 96 the netherlands good job

Re: Just painted my console, what do you think. Chelica815 #364731 Jan 4, 9:52am Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 347 Baytown, TX vaio23 Member 2003 Toyota Celica vaio23 Member 2003 Toyota Celica Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 347 Baytown, TX Originally Posted by Chelica815 I want to do the same exact thing. Can you list the exact parts you need and purchased. How much did everything cost you in the end? Cost depends on how many coats you use. The cheapest cost for the essentials is $20-30, for one can of primer, color, clear, pack of high-grit sanding paper and bottle of rubbing compound. I used all dupli-color spray cans from the autostore. Here is a pic. Also follow this guide, it tells you what products you need and what steps to take. https://celicahobby.com/ubbthreads/thread.f_1869791553_0_collapsed_5__1.html 2003 Celica GT with Hotchkis Drop

Re: Just painted my console, what do you think. vaio23 #364732 Jan 4, 10:06am Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 1,869 Likes: 1 San Francisco, CA Chelica815 Specialist 2000 Toyota Celica Chelica815 Specialist 2000 Toyota Celica Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 1,869 Likes: 1 San Francisco, CA O ok, didn't notice that thread. Thanks man. Aggressively Driven 2000 Celica GT-S 6 Speed

Re: Just painted my console, what do you think. Chelica815 #364733 Jan 4, 10:38am Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 20 Virginia pesho01 Member pesho01 Member Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 20 Virginia That's sweet looking! where would you get the decals from again??? i'll be looking forward to more pics! if you live in VA wanna help me with mine?!

Re: Just painted my console, what do you think. pesho01 #364734 Jan 4, 10:51am Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 1,259 Reston, VA rem Specialist 2000 Toyota Celica GT rem Specialist 2000 Toyota Celica GT Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 1,259 Reston, VA niiiiiiiiiiiice

Re: Just painted my console, what do you think. rem #364735 Jan 4, 10:53am Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 399 Anchorage, Alaska PnOy2nv MiKeStyLeZ 2001 Toyota Celica GT PnOy2nv MiKeStyLeZ 2001 Toyota Celica GT Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 399 Anchorage, Alaska

Re: Just painted my console, what do you think. rem #364736 Jan 4, 10:54am Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 615 New Orleans Traviesa86 Penetrating Salsa 02 Acura RSX-S Traviesa86 Penetrating Salsa 02 Acura RSX-S Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 615 New Orleans looks good...caleb is in the process of doing that to his door panels, and eventually tackling what you did "...No one on earth knows me like you do..."

Re: Just painted my console, what do you think. Traviesa86 #364737 Feb 12, 11:02pm Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 347 Baytown, TX vaio23 Member 2003 Toyota Celica vaio23 Member 2003 Toyota Celica Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 347 Baytown, TX Here are a couple of new pics. This is of the console installed in my car. I really didn't like not able to see the ac lights at night so I bought another ac trim piece and painted around all the decals. Also painted the ac knobs and the window switch trim piece. Looks much better. 2003 Celica GT with Hotchkis Drop

Re: Just painted my console, what do you think. vaio23 #364738 Feb 13, 1:10am Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 2,869 Washington cycocelica daman 2000 Toyota Celica GT cycocelica daman 2000 Toyota Celica GT Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 2,869 Washington i still think you should do mine...i suck at painting

Re: Just painted my console, what do you think. cycocelica #364739 Feb 13, 9:37am Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 1,546 Pennsylvania sbocaj55 Specialist 2000 Toyota Celica sbocaj55 Specialist 2000 Toyota Celica Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 1,546 Pennsylvania This makes me wanna do mine...

Re: Just painted my console, what do you think. sbocaj55 #364740 Feb 13, 2:24pm Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 89 Madison WI L3M1315 Member 2000 Toyota Celica L3M1315 Member 2000 Toyota Celica Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 89 Madison WI How did you paint around all the AC control graphics? Did you grow the infinite patience and mask them off? I want to do the same with mine so I can see the graphics, but didn't want to waste the time trying to figure out how to keep from spraying them.

Re: Just painted my console, what do you think. L3M1315 #364741 Feb 13, 2:35pm Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 3,744 Gainesville, FL hombredelassrtas CF Connoisseur 2004 Toyota Celica hombredelassrtas CF Connoisseur 2004 Toyota Celica Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 3,744 Gainesville, FL he didnt. those are stickers you buy and put them on. look at the pic obove it it shows the ac all painted up. Unfortunatly you wont see your ac any more but its easier then masking it all off Goodluck bro, looks awsome

Re: Just painted my console, what do you think. hombredelassrtas #364742 Feb 13, 3:00pm Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 347 Baytown, TX vaio23 Member 2003 Toyota Celica vaio23 Member 2003 Toyota Celica Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 347 Baytown, TX The first time I did it I painted over all the graphics but I didn't like not being able to see the graphics light up at night. So I bought another ac trim piece and just masked little ovals over all the graphics and men, then sprayed the piece. I then took the tape off and went back with a fine tip paint brush and did the detail work and finished it all off with some clear. 2003 Celica GT with Hotchkis Drop

Re: Just painted my console, what do you think. hombredelassrtas #364743 Feb 13, 3:01pm Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 53 san antonio,tx,usa celicagt836 Member 2001 Toyota Celica GT celicagt836 Member 2001 Toyota Celica GT Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 53 san antonio,tx,usa Where can we get the a/c decals from????

Re: Just painted my console, what do you think. celicagt836 #364744 Feb 13, 3:04pm Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 347 Baytown, TX vaio23 Member 2003 Toyota Celica vaio23 Member 2003 Toyota Celica Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 347 Baytown, TX I have a brand new set in silver that I didn't use. I can sell it to you for what I payed $12. Or you can get them from b0x over at the other celica site. Here is a pic of what the decals look like. Last edited by vaio23; Feb 13, 2005 3:06pm. 2003 Celica GT with Hotchkis Drop

Re: Just painted my console, what do you think. vaio23 #364745 Feb 13, 3:47pm Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 1,675 Lexington, Kentucky SwiftCelGTS Specialist 2000 Toyota Celica SwiftCelGTS Specialist 2000 Toyota Celica Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 1,675 Lexington, Kentucky looks very good

Re: Just painted my console, what do you think. SwiftCelGTS #364746 Feb 13, 4:15pm Joined: Apr 2003 Posts: 2,442 Lafayette, LA DiabloGTS Wheezy Joe 2002 Kawasaki Ninja 250 DiabloGTS Wheezy Joe 2002 Kawasaki Ninja 250 Joined: Apr 2003 Posts: 2,442 Lafayette, LA Looks better without the decals. They look cheesy, I like the extra effort to paint around them. To have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation To know even one life has breathed easier This is to have succeeded.

Re: Just painted my console, what do you think. DiabloGTS #364747 Feb 13, 4:32pm Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 10,110 Milford, NJ VSGTS14 05 WRB 2005 Subaru WRX STi VSGTS14 05 WRB 2005 Subaru WRX STi Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 10,110 Milford, NJ looks awesome SUBARU TECNICA INTERNATIONAL

Re: Just painted my console, what do you think. VSGTS14 #364748 Feb 13, 5:19pm Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 23 PA AreSTG Member 03 Toyota Celica Turbo AreSTG Member 03 Toyota Celica Turbo Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 23 PA u have a picture of your interoir that has your console and the seats in teh pic? im wonering what it looks like with the two tone black/gray sets of the 03

Re: Just painted my console, what do you think. AreSTG #364749 Feb 13, 5:26pm Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 347 Baytown, TX vaio23 Member 2003 Toyota Celica vaio23 Member 2003 Toyota Celica Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 347 Baytown, TX I need to take more pics of the painted console just have this old pic. 2003 Celica GT with Hotchkis Drop

Re: Just painted my console, what do you think. vaio23 #364750 Feb 13, 5:36pm Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 23 PA AreSTG Member 03 Toyota Celica Turbo AreSTG Member 03 Toyota Celica Turbo Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 23 PA i like that alot, maybe a tid bit glossy for me, but the color fits there nice

Re: Just painted my console, what do you think. AreSTG #364751 Feb 13, 5:44pm Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 2,869 Washington cycocelica daman 2000 Toyota Celica GT cycocelica daman 2000 Toyota Celica GT Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 2,869 Washington you have PM vaio23

Re: Just painted my console, what do you think. vaio23 #364752 Feb 13, 5:50pm Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 731 Rock, Pond g96818 Yoda Master g96818 Yoda Master Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 731 Rock, Pond how'd you pop off the cig door and that top door?

Re: Just painted my console, what do you think. g96818 #364753 Feb 13, 6:37pm Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 362 houston andrews Member 2000 Toyota Celica andrews Member 2000 Toyota Celica Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 362 houston nice job Injen RD cai

Re: Just painted my console, what do you think. andrews #364754 Feb 13, 8:29pm Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 321 Dallas, Texas JesterDallas Member 2002 Toyota Celica GT JesterDallas Member 2002 Toyota Celica GT Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 321 Dallas, Texas nice job... you gonna do the vents, gauge bezel, or anything else too? be careful, its addicting.

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