I've never seen this color (but I haven't been looking long). Anyone got one? I'm also open to any other color as I could probably dye it. If it's black I could just use it as is I think.

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'85 280GE...sold
'96 Impala SS ~ 6-speed 396
'14 Cadillac Vagon. . . . . . . . . . "Life without knowledge is death in disguise." - Hans-Peter Geerdes

I bought some SEM spray paint (Palamino) and sprayed the cover and my two aftermarket speaker grills on the shelf. It took the spray paint just fine and looks decent.

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85 300CD Turbo "Das Polluter" 230K sold for $3,000

98 BMW 323is

Thanks for the tip! My wife and I used SEM on the SS, but then turned towards Duplicolor trim paint (since I was doing black) as it was half the price and held up better to my abuse. Our next choice is Krylon Fusion, but doubt I'll get something close in color.

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-James

'85 280GE...sold
'96 Impala SS ~ 6-speed 396
'14 Cadillac Vagon. . . . . . . . . . "Life without knowledge is death in disguise." - Hans-Peter Geerdes

My '85 came to me with a broken cover (shattered, really). I was able to buy a used compartment with lid and painted it. I think the compartment was black and only the lid was colored. I didn't want to risk breaking the 20-year-old lid (looks like it snapped onto the box when it was younger) so I masked off the box and painted the lid, inside and out.

First I used gray primer and then color, which I got by taking fragments of the old lid to a paint store and having them do a color match (it was blue). The match was excellent and the paint still looks good after one year. Just be patient.

Jeremy

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"Buster" in the '95

Our all-Diesel family
1996 E300D (W210) . .338,000 miles Wife's car
2005 E320 CDI . . 113,000 miles My car
Santa Rosa population 176,762 (2022)
Total. . . . . . . . . . . . 627,762
"Oh lord won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz."
-- Janis Joplin, October 1, 1970