I did this after trying the Crayon trick someone suggested to fill in the shift pattern and gears that FAILED! The Crayon comes off and excess on the shift knob was too much of a pain to remove after trying to clean off around the numbers and so fourth. So trying to clean it I ended up giving up... wetsanding the shift knob... and came up with this... Yes, its the stock shift knob :bigwink: Its Black Automotive Paint, Mopar Flame Red Paint, and Automotive Clear Coat. This shift knob is out of my car, my wife came home and now she wants it. So I'll probably give this one to her... take the one off her SRT-4 and make another different design for my SRT-4.
Thanks! Lol, yeah working 55hrs a week / 6 days a week I've been slacking... usually I keep my car clean at all times but I've been definately slacking lately. Could be this freaking Florida heat. BTW, the hair all over the interior is Siberian Husky hair... my wife and I have two.
Paint filling the numbers and pattern should be pretty easy and you could still do that. Maybe Mopar blue to match that light on the dash. It's simple to paint fill stainless or polished metal and it should/might work on a fully dried, painted surface. Get the appropriate paint to match the paint type you have on there now (don't want any bubbling or reactions). I think gloss Mopar blue would look good. Get a little paint thinner (the right kind for the type of paint). Get a straight edge that you can "bow" to conform to the curvature. Like a credit card. Get a piece of fine woven cloth like from a bed sheet to wrap over the credit card. Paint the numbers and pattern with a little paint brush like they use for models. Fill just a little and don't worry about coming out over the edges just a bit. Give it a couple of minutes to JUST start to dry. Maybe not even that. Just dampen the cloth with the paint thinner (not wet) and fold over your straight edge. Bow it a bit to sort of follow the curvature and drag the straight edge (maybe a 20* angle off the surface) over the numbers and pattern. The cloth should pick up the paint from where you went over the edges and not touch any paint in the indentation. I'm thinking if you do it gently and not too much it should completely remove the wet paint without effecting the already fully dried paint. Heh, what's the worst that could happen? You strip the whole thing and start over.:grin:
Thanks Dave for the write up! I will try it on the other shift knob to see how it goes. Sounds like it should work. I actually tried using Mopar Flame Red touch up paint after I did the 2-tone scheme and it didn't work like I thought it would. On another dried up paint surface it bonds pretty much instantly. Tried removing the excess paint and it didn't work. The Mopar paint is fast drying. Might be an issue with painted over shift knobs. I will try it on a stock non-painted shift knob to see how it reacts to the surface.
Always like it when someone does custom work to their rides... I know where you are coming from with the dog hair! Lol!
Thanks! I'm hoping to do more as I think of more ideas. Just like standing out from the crowd. Nothing to drastic but I don't want to be just another Flame Red SRT-4. About the dog hair... lol yeah its bad haha. It gets so bad that when they both really shed, it looks like tumble-weeds going across the tile.
