Any advice on how to fix this? Window buttons and Silver interior Paint

[Bron]

New to me Stinger and it has a few scratches on the interior. Anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this, is there a touch up paint?
I found the window button part number but it was a few hundred dollars, seems silly to replace the whole thing just for the few buttons.

 

[Snicklefritz]

Wow, that's worse than my buttons and trim. I have one button driver's side with the forward edge peeled a bit, and the passenger side grab handle has a couple of spots where the white plastic is showing through. Interesting, your plastic on the driver side looks black? Maybe my wear is down to a white undercoat and the plastic hasn't been reached yet?

Anyway, here's what I have done so far. For the black buttons over white plastic, I have gently used the scraper tip on a gloss black Dupli-Color touchup kit to make sure there is no lifting paint. Then I brush on the gloss black. Yours will be more noticeable when touched up but a darn sight better than it is now, probably good enough.

On the grab handle trim, I use a very thin lacquer meant for airbrushes. You get this in a hobby store. It won't completely blend with the OEM paint but it'll knock back the missing paint a lot. You can add additional coats if the black underneath is still pushing through. I use Alclad II "Semi Matte Aluminum" "ALC 116". They have a website www.alclad2.com Make sure you have lacquer thinner for the brushes. I should clarify that I don't airbrush. My touchup is with an artist's brush. If you airbrush the results will blend better Ima confident.

 

[Bron]

That is exactly what I was looking for, thank you!
I'm now curious about the black plastic under the silver. Maybe that's just a base coat and the scratch wasn't deep enough? Are you saying yours is white?
You can't see it in the picture, but the paint on the buttons is bubbling and peeling off. The wear pattern on the buttons is odd too, like the rear window button being the worst seems weird that it would be the worst.

 

[Snicklefritz]

Your black scratches look a lot bigger than anything I've dealt with. In the pic of your OP, you can see some very small white scratches or worn edges. So, I think that white is the base coat and the plastic is black.

Your buttons look just terrible. After removing all the flaking/bubbling paint, you'll probably wind up just repainting the whole buttons. You'll lose the icons, but that seems like a small loss to make the buttons look spiffed up again. Use a 1/4" wide flat artist's brush of good quality to lay the gloss or satin black on. Now that I think about it, Ima sure satin black would look best. I might have gone with satin, but I only have gloss and flat black. I would go gloss rather than flat black. But satin would be my dedicated choice if I had decided to pretty much repaint the entire buttons.

 

[JSolo]

What causes this? Long finger nails?

 

[Snicklefritz]

What causes this? Long finger nails?

My guess is skin oils, on the buttons. the black gashes in the grab handle are just carelessness.

 

[Bron]

What causes this? Long finger nails?

I have a few questions I would ask the previous owner if I ever had the chance, what caused this would be one of them.

 

[Bron]

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My guess is skin oils, on the buttons. the black gashes in the grab handle are just carelessness.

It's just weird that the buttons that are chipping are not the most used buttons. The center console also has little pin prick holes in it, like someone repeatedly tapped their keys on it. Maybe the previous owner was super narcotic and just kept picking and tapping things.

 

[JSolo]

Lol.. Too much mcd's. Imagine what those french fry oils do to your insides if this do this to painted surfaces

 

[Bron]

Lol.. Too much mcd's. Imagine what those french fry oils do to your insides if this do this to painted surfaces

Well now I'm hungry...