for everyone on this particular video here we'll be doing a demonstration how your keyless remote or key fob now this was a requested video so just for future reference if anybody does have any requests or any ideas for videos they would like to see in the future I don't hesitate to even make comment for them or send me a personal message and I'll see what I can do now basically what I have here today is a Toyota keyless remote and what I'll be doing here is I'll just be painting it with a custom color here now maybe you want to have a color match to your vehicle or you just want to have a color that just stands out just to personalize it yourself now first of all I start by doing is disassembling the keyless remote as you can see I've already done here now this one here just simply pops apart with a flat screwdriver now this will depend on what type of maker model your remote is as to how it pops apart now if you are looking for various videos on that I do have some which pertain to this and Hyundai Ford etc and I will include the link to that playlist below in the description I also do have one this vehicle specific to the Toyota key fob which is pertaining to this remote here and I will include that in the description below what do you want to start by doing next is just giving it a good thorough wash to ensure that there is no no debris or dirt or even just oil from your skin see here I've already scuff up the surfaces on both sides of the remote itself you can see it's fairly even all the way around besides for those wet areas there they want to make sure it is fairly even all the way around because if you do leave any areas that aren't sanded down what can happen is this can cause adhesion problems and therefore it won't be as durable or the paint will start peeling what I've used for this basically is wet dry 400 grit sandpaper and some maroon scotch-brite another moon scotch brite is the closest amount of grit to the 400 grit sandpaper now I also have a pail of water here as well now with the sandpaper basically what I use this for as you can see there is some imperfections in the surface of the plastic knowledge is basically from day to day usage and any of those scratches here they can cause so much of a cratering effect what this can do here is it will create a low spot but also create a high spot around the lower area and this can cause some imperfections after and be magnified after the painting process so what you do is you use the 400 grit sandpaper to remove those high spots will so therefore make those imperfections much smaller now as for the scotch brite here basically considering there is some high and low spots on here that the sandpaper doesn't always get to such as the emblem here even with the lower spots around the buttons scotch-brite does work excellent for that method there now just before I'm going to lace any paint on this way I did just give it a good wipe down with any rubbing alcohol what this ensures that removes any contaminants on the surface such as oil from your skin or even just oil from everyday usage or any dirt or grime that may be present on the surface which could cause some agent problems now as you can see here I've also had just a little bit of tape on the inside there so I don't get in the overspray inside the case itself and because these are lighter objects and you do have an aerosol can here what can happen is these can blow away off your painting surface so I just folded a piece of tape so it's sticky on the one end here as you can see and what I'll do it will just press it down there like so and it should hold it in place considering this is a bare surface and also plastic but I'll be applying here is an adhesion promoter by dupli-color I know what this ensures that the surface will have maximum adhesion for the paint and also durability now what I recommend using here is a two-stage paint basically what the intent of the two stage paint is supposed to do here is we have a base coat and then we'll have a clear coat now the base coat does lay on to somewhat of a matte finish and it doesn't have any protective layer on it as opposed to a single stage paint here now usually with the two-stage paint here what I also like about it is that it tends to be more durable in a single stage paint it's basically we'll do here is we'll lay on two coats of the base coat here and then we'll finish up with the final coat of a clear coat which gives it its final shine now if you want to go for a little bit of different finish here you can go ahead and use a matte clear coat still has the protection that a regular clear coat does but it just doesn't have that shine as opposed to this gloss clear coat here now when picking these two products you also want to make sure that your base coat and your clear coat are both compatible products because you will have problems with either drawing or adhesion or even there might be a chemical reaction where the panel wrinkled up then you'll have to redo the process over again and you'll still have the same problems unless you pick two compatible paints face as you can see here I've already applied the couple coats of paint now considering I'm applying a darker color I shouldn't have to worry about any ghosting in behind or any covering up issues considering it as a black plastic in behind there now if you are going with the lighter color possibly you will have to apply three coats to ensure there is nice even spread throughout it and everything is covered up properly now you don't want to go to heavier coats we're going to get runs in it but you also want to apply just enough so it does end up nice and smooth on the surface here with this one here for the first coat it was a medium coat and then the second coat was a wet coat now once this is set up here and somewhat dried but not too dry works going to cause adhesion problems we'll go ahead and apply the clear coat now I'm probably just going to wait about ten minutes for that to set up and then it so once I've applied the final coat of clear coat here basically with the exact same process as they did with the base coat I went ahead applied a medium coat of clear than a heavy coat of clear afterwards so the heavy coat of clear ensures that there is a nice smooth surface with minimal orange peel but you don't want to apply too heavy a coat where you're going to have any runs or drips in the paint now what I'll do is I'll leave this set outside here for probably about a couple hours now it obviously depends where you're locating what the temperature is outside how long it will take to harden up at least to the touch once it's hardened to the touch then then go ahead remove the tape from the inside and I'll just take it indoors for overnight just to ensure that it does dry and nothing happens to it and you don't want to put it together just yet I would leave for at least 24 hours in order to put any pressure on it to snap the case back together because this could cause some problems even though the paint is dry to a touch it still doesn't mean it's fully hardened to where it's going to be able to withstand any pressure or resistance towards that and once you've let the case dry for roughly about 24 hours you can go ahead and put it back together now the paint should be hard enough to put pressure on if you do need to snap your case back together and you should be left the final product looks like this now if you do find there's some orange peel on there I would go ahead and just wet sand a little bit then you can go ahead with the polishing stages now if you're just wondering how to do that you just go with just light 2,000 grit sandpaper now you want to be careful running the edges on this because you can sand through the paint surface and then go ahead with some rubbing compound or polishing compound then some scratch remover and then finally some wax now if you're wondering why I have the zip tie on here now I did find because it was cool just over the last night there and there was somewhat of a high humidity level the paint is still not a hundred percent fully hardened it'll still take a couple days more our cure but if you do still need to use your remote here what I've done I just added a zip tie on here so I can just hang it up on a key hook and therefore that ensures it doesn't rest on the surface of the pain does just happen to get a little soft or there is some kind of reaction with a surface it does sit on you won't have any damaged surface or it won't damage your final pain finish until this is fully hardened now again this will be dependent on how much paint you do apply what type of paint you do use and what type of climate you're in currently of how long this will dry so let's conclude the rest mandatory video if you have any comments or questions please don't hesitate to post them below also please don't forget to scrap my channel and like my video thank you for watching