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Old Nov 27, 2005 | 05:40 PM
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What products for coloring interior parts

I am looking to change the color on some plastic pieces, dash and the felt roof lining, which products work best and where are they available from...

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Old Nov 27, 2005 | 05:57 PM
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I've used VHT color dye (Summit Racing) works very well
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Old Nov 27, 2005 | 06:12 PM
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Will the grey cover burgundy? Any suggestions for felt lining?

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Old Nov 27, 2005 | 06:51 PM
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There is a guy on here i forget his name, but he re-did his entire interior or something, changed the color. I beleive it was $100T2
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Old Nov 27, 2005 | 07:57 PM
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Originally Posted by aussiesmg
Will the grey cover burgundy? Any suggestions for felt lining?
I used VHT to change my taupe interior to black on my old MX-3..it changed with no problems..but using grey to cover burgandy..hmmm I would test a small area or piece first to see how it does
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Old Nov 27, 2005 | 08:06 PM
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SEM has a good line of interior color products. I used it to recolor my gray plastic panels that had faded.

I also had my paint supplier custom mix some Lesanol paint, with the interior additive, to change the tan/gold interior on my Z, to gray. I have not tried either on fabric, but they have that capacity.
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Old Nov 27, 2005 | 08:12 PM
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I used dye from Eastwood, but I was not changing color. I was very happy with the results.

http://www.eastwoodco.com/jump.jsp?i...mType=CATEGORY

There is some vinyl cleaner / vinyl prep you have to use first before you use the paint / dye. You can call them also; they are very helpful (or were to me!).
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Old Nov 27, 2005 | 09:02 PM
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the problem with using the spray dyes on fabric is that it tends to make the fabric hard and no longer pliable...but on the plastic parts it works great
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Old Nov 28, 2005 | 12:36 AM
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i used krylon fusion paint for my int./w no problems. not sure how well on vinyl.
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Old Nov 29, 2005 | 06:17 AM
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Call Eastwood and talk to them. Restorers do this all the time and they would know the best way to go.
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Old Nov 29, 2005 | 09:01 AM
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There is a spray paint made for plastic interior, and i used it on my cavalier and it came out awesome. I think it was Krylon fusion like jjlrx7 said
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Old Nov 29, 2005 | 07:31 PM
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Originally Posted by 1985_RX-7
There is a guy on here i forget his name, but he re-did his entire interior or something, changed the color. I beleive it was $100T2
yea you are correct $100t2 died his plastics and carpet black from burgundy cause he cant stand the red and he has made this clear
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Old Nov 29, 2005 | 08:21 PM
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if it's as easy as all of these comments say (and it sounds like it is), why do so many people look for entire interiors to swap out for (usually for black!) I even spent hours ripping out a black interior from another car (have yet to swap), but now it sounds like i can just order up a few cans of this stuff... the one from summit says on the can u can use it on carpet too! I won't be able to sell my perfect brown interior once i paint/dye it, but who'd buy it anyway?
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Old Nov 29, 2005 | 08:55 PM
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yea you are correct $100t2 died his plastics and carpet black from burgundy cause he cant stand the red and he has made this clear
**** THE BURGUNDY!!! DIE BURGUNDY, DIE!!!

Anyway, yeah, I dyed the **** out of it. Check in the archives.
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