has anyone completely changed the color of their interior?

[greathuskie]

im talking dash, carpet, and doors

how much time/money would this take? (not counting the seats)

im considering changing the interior of my car to black so i can easily highlight parts of it like the areas around the vents with yellow paint


any ideas?

 

[ProJek-S&G]

i dont know exactly how much...but should range anywhere from 500-1000...since you getting it only 1color shouldnt be much...unless you wanna paint em yourself

 

[greathuskie]

im painting it all myself with that interior paint

prolly run 10 bottles so im look at 200-300 dollars?

 

[samuraitekno]

I am in the process of painting my interior... and so far i have gone through 2 cans of vinyal paint and 2 cans of carpet paint and one can of black gloss and one can of metalflake and one can of blue and 2 cans of primer.... and i havent done the seats or headliner..

 

[redgst97]

My Eclipse had tan in it when I bought it... I found a totaled Eclipse in the junk yard, and changed every plastic piece to grey. Iwanted the car as dark as possible inside. I bought new factory carpet, and black Tenzo seats. From the b-pillars back...everything is custom made. Mostly painted the same red as the outside of the car.

Also, recovered the head liner in black cloth...as well as the door panels.

 

[explicitconcept]

I changed the whole inside of my car to black/white. I used vinal paint (4 cans), carpet paint for floor/seats (3 cans). I also changed various plastics to white. It took me about 3 days but you could do it in one and a half with help and worked constantly. I did it by myself and slowly. It cost me about 36 dollars and looks fantastic. Its not proffesional but looks like it is! The paint on the doors will fade after a coupl months so you have to keep up with that though. Not sure about the dash yet but im sure it will fade a bit after a while. It was worth it all though. Just if possible take your time and thoroughly clean all plastics/vinle with degresser! Otherwise the paint will bubble and/or crack. Hope this helps.

- Dan

 

[RedTurboEclipse]

i have the tan interior.. but im thinking of using vinal paint to get it black.. i figured it would be much cheaper than getting whole new replacement panels.

how difficult is the process?

 

[Snagglez]

How good is the carpet paint? Will it last a while?

 

[explicitconcept]

thye carpet paint is real good, its not like other paint. it actually dyes the carpet/seats fabric. it will last a long time. with lighter colors its harder to keep nice and clean. You won't be able to get a pure white out of your carpet unless you have a real brite colored carpet.

 

[Snagglez]

Would I be able to turn black and grey carpet red?

 

[samuraitekno]

you cant turn black to any color... you would have to get new carpet.. grey may be easier... but depends on what shade of grey. to get black to red you would have to bleach the whole carpet... and that would be a pain in the butt.

 

[redline6k]

i re did my whole interior for under 100 bucks

 

[firemaster]

Does anyone have any pictures of thier interior after painting it?
Thanks,
-FM-

 

[evan2]

yes my whole int went from light blue to black and silver

mainly silver with black accents
dyed the carpets black with rit dye
did the headliner black with silver visors.. just used to black felt and wrapped the headliner
had black gtr racing seats and no back seat

if i kept the eclipse i was going to finish it and do the main dash it was still blue because im lazy and didnt want to take it all apart one day..
and i was going to make my own carpet to cover the missing back seat or build a rack for something there...www.pbase.com/evan2
look for the pics section

 

[fauchpj]

shouldnt be that much. depends on if u do it urself and what kind of paint u use. i probably spent 150-200 TOPS not counting the seats

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it used to be blue

 

[supafast]

well im in the middle of changin the interior of my car from the stock grey to black and gold,i just started last weekend and it took several hours to gut the interior,so its deffinetly not something to start unless youve got a couple days to dedicate to the job....

 

[Snagglez]

How hard is it to get the part of the dash off that the front speakers screw into. I have a 1G.

 

[dreamzturbogsx]

do they make an interior dye or do you have to use some sort of paint and if so what kind.

 

[popeonarope]

you can go get the molded carpet for you car for about 160

 

[popeonarope]

yes they do make dye but it is very expensive to get. i looked into it andit was cheaper for me to have an import shop do it for me, they charged me 250 to dye my dash if i took it out ant it was a pain in the a$$

 

[Dericsh]

i painted my carpet with the same vynal spray that i painted my platic interior parts with it all works the same. check my gallery. the paint is only 4 dollars a can at autozone i probly used about 25 cans all together

 

[dreamzturbogsx]

Originally posted by redgst97
My Eclipse had tan in it when I bought it... I found a totaled Eclipse in the junk yard, and changed every plastic piece to grey. Iwanted the car as dark as possible inside. I bought new factory carpet, and black Tenzo seats. From the b-pillars back...everything is custom made. Mostly painted the same red as the outside of the car.

Also, recovered the head liner in black cloth...as well as the door panels.

how much did that cost you???

 

[farmdogg55]

i spent like around $150 i think. i painted everything in the interior, did the carpet, the back seats, and redid the headliner. i would recommend getting premolded carpet thats already the color you want, they make them in red and lots of colors.

 

[mitsuspeed]

Ive changed my interior from stock tan, to rice white, and now stock dark grey. all i can say is take your time with the paint. mine came out all right, but it was to refective and lil' to ricey. btw, taking off the one-piece dash by yourself is one of the hardest things you will ever do...