Interior Dying/Re-Painting?

Joshy · 2 Dec 2010 at 22:59

Does anyone here have any real world experience of using plastic/vinyl sprays and dyes to recolour an interior?

I desperately want to change the drab grey of my current interior to Black but I don't particularly want to spend the £600+ black interiors usually sell for or go through the hassle of sourcing a car with a Black interior, switching everything over to my TT, putting my grey stuff in the new car and selling that on.

So it seems like Dying seems to be the best option but I'm a little worried about life span. I understand it's supposed to be rubbish on seats so I wouldn't bother using it on them (Need to get some leather anyway :cool:

) but even then I'm not particularly easy on my interiors and don't want to be re dying it every 5 minutes.

I really want to be able to live with the Grey, but black just looks so much more classy than the grey.

vs

No contest, surely?

I'll probably change my mind in a few weeks and try to sell the car again, but for now humour me

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lordrobs · 2 Dec 2010 at 23:11

Sounds like it will be a PITA to me. I'd concentrate on swapping over the duff looking radio for a touch screen thingy like in the top pic.

t3kno_tr0n|c · 2 Dec 2010 at 23:43

Hardly looks any different.

You should be looking at the road ahead anyway, not worrying about what shade of grey your dash is.

Begbie · 3 Dec 2010 at 07:03

t3kno_tr0n|c said:
Hardly looks any different.

You should be looking at the road ahead anyway, not worrying about what shade of grey your dash is.

Looks completly different. Ones on the right ones on the left

paradigm · 3 Dec 2010 at 07:37

I'd be more bothered about getting rid of the wood and adding leather.

The dash colour is irrelevant.

DM · 3 Dec 2010 at 08:01

Better give this one a swerve, its gonna end in tears

godinman · 3 Dec 2010 at 08:11

I wouldn't think dying would go very well, and would probably end up costing you a few hundred, and all the time and effort. If you're that worried just spend the £600. imo.

ubersonic · 3 Dec 2010 at 08:27

Remove the wood effect trim and either spray it black or have it wrapped in carbon fibre.

Saytan · 3 Dec 2010 at 08:31

it's unlikely to cost you much less than just buying the interior you want. If it does, it'll probably wind up looking awful.

tigerstyle · 3 Dec 2010 at 08:44

top pic looks like its trying to be KITT bottom pic looks like it's Michael Jacksons car, it's never going to look nice inside, just deal with it, that or flock the hell out of it!

Dup · 3 Dec 2010 at 09:59

Vinyl die is a possibility but I tried it on a small part once and it flaked off. You'll probs need to do some epic degreasing and if you do it wrong... then its ruined for good.

I'd recommend that Nardi wheel though, looks lovely.

peterattheboro · 3 Dec 2010 at 10:04

Just get a double din headunit and that 3M carbon sticky stuff for the trim.

Joshy · 3 Dec 2010 at 10:57

Now that I am slightly more sober I believe I might just give this a bit of a miss

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It is a bit of a shame though as the americans swear by the stuff.

Anyway, I guess it's back to the original plan. Some grey leather, posh Double Din stereo and generally giving everything else a bloody good scrubbing.

But the wood stays (As does the Michael Jackson hat

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naefeart · 3 Dec 2010 at 11:13

Michael Jackson just called, he wants his hat back

Seriously, the dash looks fine, put the time and effort in somewhere else.

edit: too slow

Felix Da Housecat · 3 Dec 2010 at 11:22

Just leave it, not worth the trouble.

DM · 3 Dec 2010 at 11:24

I have 6 ideas a week that seem blinders when im drunk, id be skint now if i had hatched all my mad plans

Eliot · 3 Dec 2010 at 11:44

ubersonic said:
Remove the wood effect trim and either spray it black or have it wrapped in carbon fibre.

this.

Joshy · 3 Dec 2010 at 14:16

You lot obviously aren't nearly as classy as I first thought with all these anti wood comments.

And it's proper wood too, not stick on rubbish!

paradigm · 3 Dec 2010 at 14:23

Joshy said:
You lot obviously aren't nearly as classy as I first thought with all these anti wood comments.

And it's proper wood too, not stick on rubbish!

The problem is a) it looks fake, regardless of how real it is, b) it doesn't suit the car, no matter how real it is, c) it looks crap.

I love wood trim in the right car, I want wood in my next car (E60, E65, outside push an A8), but that looks terrible.

Joshy · 3 Dec 2010 at 14:31

I'm going to give it all a bit of a polish up and see how it comes out.

To be honest I like it.