Sem Vinyl dye on seat brackets? I wonder if it will stick

[cozye]

I've dyed all of the plastic in my interior with SEM color coat, the stuff works absolutely fantastic.

My problem now is that the two brackets that hold the back rest to the seat need to be repainted. I have the off white interior, and getting a nice match of off white spray paint to refinish the brackets hasn't been easy.

I'm wondering if the SEM color coat would stick well to metal ? I have all new vinyl for the seat upholstery as well, and the SEM is very close. I'm tempted to give it a shot and was wondering if anyone else had any success with this ?

[Pop's Z]

I believe all the seat brackets are black. I had a '73 back in 1975 with the off-white interior and those brackets were black...FWIW. My current '73 had the butterscotch interior and the brackets are black.

Cheers, Mike

[cozye]

They are off white. The car was original. I thought about painting them black, but I'm not sure if I would care for the look.

[Arne]

Yeah, the 240Z brackets were all black, regardless of upholstery color. But not so for 280Zs.

On topic - I don't believe the SEM will work well on the metal. It is designed to "soak in" to the vinyl/plastic surfaces. Seems like when I used it years back on other projects that I could scrape fully cured overspray off metal surfaces easily with my thumbnail. Not to say they may not have changed the formula by now, but I'd bet not, as adhesion to plastic and metal are radically different things.

[cozye]

Yeah, the 240Z brackets were all black, regardless of upholstery color. But not so for 280Zs.

On topic - I don't believe the SEM will work well on the metal. It is designed to "soak in" to the vinyl/plastic surfaces. Seems like when I used it years back on other projects that I could scrape fully cured overspray off metal surfaces easily with my thumbnail. Not to say they may not have changed the formula by now, but I'd bet not, as adhesion to plastic and metal are radically different things.

That's what I was afraid of. I may just have to paint them the off white paint that I have, and if it turns out to be too far off and starts bothering me I can always pull them off easy enough and paint them black. It's not like there wasn't about 3 shades off off white in the car originally anyway.