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Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile
Based on personal observation I'd say that painting any plastic is going to inevitably fail and look 100X worse than no paint at all. But it will buy you time.
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Ye of little faith. As with any surface; plastic, steel, aluminum, concrete, drywall, ect. etc. It's all in the preparation and products used. Look at the modern car. Interior and exterior plastics everywhere. Front & rear bumpers, mirror housings, door handles, bodyside moldings, headlight housings, dashboards etc. Yet they all looks as good as the body. Plastics do have inherent adhesion issues but mainly they have been over come. Just about every car on the road uses TPO, (thermo plastic olefin) for a vast majority of components because it's cheap. Ford actually classifies the stuff as a non-paintable substrate.
Believe me I'm no plastics fan but the stuff can be painted and be durable.