Made My Carpet Look New Again!!

[EDM95]

I just picked me up a carpet down a junk yard, but it is off a chrysler i hope it will fit.
I will post before & after pics later.

I washed it with some simple green and then i let it dry over night.
After it was dry i painted it with some flat black paint and that is all.

Before


After

[twoTSis]

Anyone know a way to dye the carpet rather then paint it?

The after picture looks like the color is a purple-ish color.

[btak]

WoW! that looks really nice. im gonna have to do that to my car when i get home. looks like the previous owner of my car had a party inside the car

[EDM95]

Originally Posted by twoTSis

Anyone know a way to dye the carpet rather then paint it?

The after picture looks like the color is a purple-ish color.

It looks like that because the pics are from a camera phone, but in person it looks black.

[TjPhillips36]

Originally Posted by twoTSis

Anyone know a way to dye the carpet rather then paint it?

The after picture looks like the color is a purple-ish color.

The dupli-color vinyl/fabric paint is more of a dye rather than a paint. It's hard to describe, but I would recommend picking up a can. It's well worth the money. They come in all sorts of colors also. Including black, and a factoryish gray.

[EDM95]

This carpet is a pia to lay down, ahhhhh i am ready to just give up.
Any one ever did this to a seat? I am about to paint my back seats black they are old and faded.

[arturo74r]

Hey guys, I followed this thread and did it to my carpet this is how it was:


The guy that owned this car lived in a dirt road and had no floor mats on the car so you get an idea. By the way this picture is after a long vacuum and some carpet cleaner that didn't help.

Another pic

You can tell how dirty it was.

Look close on this pic there is a stain where the passenger puts his or her feet down. I think that was either dog poop or cat poop, still smelled a little bit but it was hard as a rock


So after taking the carpet out I took it to the car wash and pressure washed it with soap. It helped a lot, but it still was dirty so I let it soak overnight with some armor all car wash and simple green and water. When I took it out I threw it in the washer with regular washer soap. Even though it didn't help much it was smelling great. But since it was still dirty I borrowed a professional vacuum, one that sprays soap and then sucks it up. After a lot of scrubbing and vacuuming I took it to the car wash again but this time I didn't use soap. I let it dry overnight and next day I noticed there was still sand on it so I dry vacuumed it for a while with some scrubbing (dry). Then I painted it with the carpet spray paint and this is what it looks like now


Not only it looks great but it smells great. I took the time to wipe and clean every piece I had to take out and know my car smells great.

This is the passenger side (no dog poop stain! yes!!!)


And this is the rear seats area


By the way this pictures were taken after a month and a half of doing it and I still haven't vacuumed it so it's not crisp clean but you get the idea. Thanks for reading

[SwitchSkier]

Originally Posted by twoTSis

Anyone know a way to dye the carpet rather then paint it?

The after picture looks like the color is a purple-ish color.

I did a combo on my carpet. I used a bunch of RIT clothing dye and put the carpet in a big bucket. One of my friends did the same thing with his Integra carpet too. His came out a lot better than mine though. I don't know why, but mine came out slightly purple from the dye. I did forget to add the salt like it says in the directions, and he remembered. But it could just be the material our carpets are made out of. I don't know. Then after it was dry I put on a light coat with the Duplicolor spray to even it out. I didn't want to use a lot of the spray and risk making the carpet crusty.

I think maybe this summer I might take it out and do the dye job again, but this time mix the salt in like it says to and see if I can get the purple out. You can't really tell, but when the sun shines on the carpet you can still see the purple/redish a little bit.

[arturo74r]

I used a lot of paint on my carpet (about 4 cans) and it is not crusty at all. The texture did change a little bit, but when it was completely dry I used a dry scrub and the texture is very similar to the original.

[lazyazzdaddy]

just thought i would throw this in for all you guys... I reciently did my carpet as well " no paint just a real good wash" after i did it i noticed my seats still looked like crap so.... I used a couple of those Mr clean sponges on them and man what a diferance it made.. like night and day! now if i can only figure out how to fix the small wear marks on the tops of the seat from slideing my ass in and out of the seat.

[EDM95]

The seat was looking old and dirty, so i painted it with some fabric spray.
Dont mind the seat belt pads

Before



After

[95CarbonEclipse]

Originally Posted by kawboy

Howd you fix the airbag peeling problem?

Sorry man, it's been a while since I've been on here.

I just bought a used airbag and installed that instead of attempting to fix the old one. I picked up the used airbag off of ebay for like $25 shipped and it worked out great except for the fact that it was listed as grey, but was actually slate blue (that's why it's painted black now).