Flocked dash and center console

[raptoranderson]

Has anyone ever flocked the dashboard on their Eclipse? Or the center console too as a whole?

I had a crappy hatchback back in the UK and I flocked the dashboard and loved the look of it! The dashboard for this car was a separate insert that sat ontop of the rest of the dashboard so it was easy to remove and then coat the whole thing with a clean line, but with the Eclipse dashboard it is all one huge component and so you'd have to do some masking-off if you wanted just the top of the dashboard flocked.

I was thinking either doing just the top of the dashboard (along and inside the blue line) or the whole dashboard and console (along and inside the green line but not on the heater console bezel, the controls and radio bezel, the shifter boot and cigarette lighter bezel or the center arm rest ). On some cars it gives the interior a super clean and track-like look. Has anyone ever done this and have pictures to show the results?

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[raptoranderson]

Here's where I'm getting the inspiration from (these are not DSMs in these pictures)

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[Zero6391]

huh seems interesting, never seen a eclipse with this done but the wonders of custom work means that anything and everything can be done to a car with a little patience and ingenuity

 

[raptoranderson]

I've got a spare dash so I'll mock up a flocking job and see how it looks

On a side note, is there any way to make the airbag sit flush with the dashboard or does it always stick out?

 

[Zero6391]

I think they always stick out from my observation but some people remove the airbag to put the fuse box there so maybe if your gonna go that route then it would be easy to adjust it to sit flush

 

[2gmitsueclipse]

I plan to do this to the Laser. A friend of mine did this to his current rally car, and significantly reduces glare! To me, I don't know how it would look on a 2g, but i think it would work great on repaired 1g dash. Unfortunately, I don't see how it could be applied correctly unless you pulled the dash from the car.

 

[raptoranderson]

No doubt the dash will have to be pulled. I spent all of 5 minutes thinking about what it would be like to flock the dashboard whilst it's in the car and I came to the conclusion that it'd just make a huge mess

It really does reduce glare though! I can attest to that. I would then have to find some clean color that would be applied to the inserts that were not flocked. Maybe dark charcoal or black ... because that off-shade of grey looks cheap to my eye

 

[raptoranderson]

Also if you combine the flocking with the cloth racing seats hyper clean look. Plus cloth doesn't get hot like leather does, although it suffers wear and tear much worse. I had a pair of Sparco Pro2000s in my mock-up hatchback rally car back home and they got trashed over the course of 3 years from use