Well I've always wondered why this was only attempted on black cube. Furthermore, many people that have the black cube desire silver cube. Lastly, why limit your cube to just black or silver?
Since I have a spare set of black cube, mostly all in need of TLC, I experimented with the following:
1) Rustoleum Red Satin
2) Rustoleum Black Satin
3) Rustoleum Silver Metallic
Similar to other trim repair DIY, I started with a very lite sanding to scuff up the trim (3M 400). Then I applied very lite coats from about 2 feet above the pieces, allowing 20 minutes of drying in between coats. I did 3 main coats per color, and some very minor touch up on the edges and angles.
In my opinion, the untrained eye would not be able to tell these were painted or color changed once completed and installed.
Comments / observations:
1) Rustoleum Red Satin - ironically looks very similar to Imola Red. I didn't like the Red cube look against my natural brown interior, but perhaps it would look nicer as an offset to an all black interior...the picture below was after only two very lite coats. The color change worked very effectively. One more coat would have hidden the slight imperfections shown, but I didn't want to put too many coats as I ultimately converted the whole spare set to Silver. In summation: this proved to me that one can choose any color they like and effectively and cleanly change the color of their cube trim.
2) Rustoleum Black Satin - very hard to distinguish from OEM black finish in terms of color. However, the new finish is noticeably shinier. I feel that the OEM finish was a bit too Matte for my taste and prefer the refinished look.
3) Rustoleum Silver Metallic - more brilliant than OEM with a bit of a matte effect. Very effective process. All in all, the trim looks great. Has much more pop than the OEM finish, which some will like and some will not. I may look into a darker shade of this paint to more closely match the OEM color, especially the darker gray look of the more recent Silver Cube trim production runs. As of now, I prefer the OEM silver cube. We'll see if that changes as I play with the shades.
Will post more on this if I tweak it further.
I welcome any comments / feedback / suggestions (with the disclaimer that this was done purely for fun and experimentation). I'm not reverting back to my Honda days of painting my dashboard and console, etc).