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Later today after I put on the pure black dye (last night was the Navy Blue/Black combo) and it dries.

Wankelguy

I think I may still have a perfect black carpet for 1st Gen. out in my ultra-plush two-story walk-up tiki lounge/rotary museum.

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Sticky Damnit!

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Well, well, well. I got all the carpet out, finally. It's currently dyeing black out on my deck.

Now, I decided to see how the dye would do on the plastic parts. It didn't dye well with warm/hot water, so I decided to do it on the stove.



The water is NOT boiling. Remember, super hot water + plastic = melting, so be careful.

Here's one of the A/C vents. Notice how faded it is.



And here's a comparison shot after I hot dyed one:



Here's another before and after:



Now, all I did for these was dye them Navy Blue. I will be hand dyeing them black later tonight after the kids go to bed. The carpet is currently dyed Navy Blue, and will be going to black later as well.

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Here's some updates:

The carpet is now black.



I'm gonna hit these two "leather" parts with the leather dye, and that will be that.



Here's the dash. It actually looks a bit maroon because the sun was setting while I took the pics. I'll take some indoors tonight, but it's coming out nicely. I gotta get some q-tips to do the tight spots.



Here's a decent close up so you can see the difference.

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I am trying to dye the rear carpet right now and it doesnt want to take the dye like the front carpets will. I am talking about the rear hatch carpet. Also for the harder plastics are you using a different technique to dye them other than soaking them cuz i tried the storage bin lids and nothing for about 4 hours and it barly looked like it took any dye at all. Do I need to really dilute the water for this I have 4 bottles of black and 6 gallons of hot water in a cooler in the sun with the lid closed?

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The hotter the water, the better for that. If it won't take the dye, then you either have to go to a different dye or paint them.

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Ill try hotter water and more dye still ought to be cheaper than buying new rear hatch carpet.

TurboIIGuy

nice.....I wanna try it on a car now!!!!!

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sorry to bring a thread back from the dead, but i was woundering if you have any more pictures right now of this?i tried searching with no results, I just wanted to see if the dye still remains semi glossy, or if it goes into a more full like color. THanks

thekyl

Aye updates and why didn't this get stickied?

dj55b

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it actually did get archived

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