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Old 06-16-2007, 04:25 AM
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I've finally finished my Leather seat conversion and they look good and very expensive. They went from brown/tan cloth to Complete Black Leather which I hand made myself. Now the rest of the panels in the car are tan and I want to switch them all to black with a few exceptions...

The carpet and headliner are staying tan, making some black leather visors next and covering the door panels in black leather and bottom part with some nice black carpeting.

All the plastic panels are my question...

Should I paint the plastic panels or wrap them in vinyl or leather??? And have you seen any panels that were wrapped?? I'm scared I won't be able to make the vinyl stick properly and it'll peel up soon.
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Old 06-16-2007, 12:10 PM
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Don't paint them, get replacement panels off a wrecked car with and ebony INT... Thats what I did..

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Old 06-16-2007, 02:29 PM
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I say wrap all the plastic pannels. I bet if you sand them down smooth and use lots of glue it will stick jsut fine. preparation is everything
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Old 06-16-2007, 08:40 PM
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I've yet to find a camaro around here with ebony interior, I've found one camaro period and it's purple with purple painted interior and a smashed hood... all the parts I need are ruined...
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I've also thought about wrapping all the interior peices in some type of cloth. But I have tons of vinyl available...
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Give me a couple days to finish shampooing the carpet and get the seats back in and I'll put up a good post.
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I'm doing this right now. I only Use 3M glue for this, Fastbond 30 & Spray 74. I hate the gray plastic feeling of my interior. Check out the result.
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Did you use leather or vinyl? And how did you prep the surface? You use any heat for shaping? Give up some details, I'd like to know what to expect when I begin this...
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i likey.
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yeah a write up for this would be awesome, also how much material did you use and how expensive was it? I would love to do something like this to my car.
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that looks very nice man!
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i painted! worked fine! never got to test out the longevity of what i did because the car got hit by a mack truck semi.




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re-upholstered seats



black carpet from non-spnsor





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