Ok as some of you might know from my old posts I have custom tribal door inserts & headliner awaiting install. They are black & my current interior is Tan/Grey plastic. I'm thinkin about doin a little something else before I install the pieces I already have.

I'm wanting to cover my sail panels, trunk plastic, center console(minus top pad), a-pillars & door panels in black leather. I almost went the route of painting it with Krylon plastic fusion. The couple pieces I did turned out well, but I'm wanting a more expensive classy look upon opening the doors.

I have a buddy who used to do custom install at a local stereo shop who is willing to help me if I get the materials & time to do it. He has advise me that it's alot harder than I would think to do it & make it look OEM quality.

I'll probably still paint the radio benzel & little plastic parts like that with the Fusion, but the big stuff will be covered.

What do you guys think?? You think I should try it out?? Have any of you guys done this & if so what material did you use & what adhesive?? My car sets outside year round so the adhesive has to hold up to high temps from parking in the sun.

I'll also probably find a 02' Ebony dash to swap out instead of covering my current grey one. Plus the addition of a silver gauge benzel inside the dash, silver speaker grills, silver vent rings & brushed Aluminum MBA *****. My Pioneer deck is already instaslled in a brushed Aluminum plate instead of the black ABS plastic the kits use.

I'm lookin for a dark theme with subtle Aluminum/Chrome accents inside & out. Currently my exterior is NBM with VHT side markers & rear tails accompained by the Chrome vinyl inserts for the rear "Pontiac", door emblems & front bird. I'm plannin on changing those to DragonZ polished stainless after I get a fresh paint job. Along with Chrome Z06 wheels. This interior/exterior project should take me about a year.

Just lookin for opinions & helpful information at this stage.

 

No opinions or people who have either done this or looked into doin it??

 

I was going to attemp that when I went through my car and put suede througout it. Unfortunately with the rough texture and the numerous curves and lines, it just didn't work. I bought an extra sail panel set and door panel and tried it. It didn't work out too well. The textured surfaces were the ones that were the worst. I still did cover the areas on the door panels that were leather in suede, but the textured areas did not get anything done to them.

 

You might be interested in this thread where vikingramair covered his interior in vinyl:
https://ls1tech.com/forums/appearance-detailing/734488-interior-mod.html

 

Mike, I went to the Sherwin Williams automotive paint store at 47th and Memorial (I'm pretty sure it was 47th). They color matched some paint off my cup holder, and I had someone with a spray gun paint my trim pieces back to the stock color. The paint is stuck on there pretty good, and matches better than any of the rattle cans I could find. I also had to spray on some Bull Dog Adhesion Promoter, you can get that in a rattle can anywhere. If you are interested I have an ebony 6-speed console I could sell you.

 

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