I have heard of a way to "paint" your carpet. I have a tan interior and i want a black. Someone was telling me that you can get paint designed for carpet so that you can make your carpet any color you want. I want to go from tan to black. Anyone done this before???

 

I have, Duplicolor sells this type of dye made especially for your carpets. All you do is remove the carpet, apply several coats (took 6 bottles for me) and let it dry.

The thing is every couple of months, you have to respray certain areas, where the shoes touch the carpet. Mine came out perfect, people never notice it or anything. I coulndt be happier other than having to respray it every now and then.

 

I've redone the interior of a jeep from burgandy to tan. I used fabric/vinyl paint on the carpet. It works but it takes A LOT of it to look good. Dye is another good option, but I'm not sure where you'd get that stuff. I bought my paint from the autoparts store. I think if your going to change the color of your interior your much better off just buying black carpet, whether its new or from a parts car here on the forum. Over time paint/dye will look worse and worse. You'll have to respray spots down the road for sure. But hey, just painting it is much easier than fully re-carpeting it, I hear you. Tan to black shouldn't be too hard. Are you buying the black FD door panels and seats or are you just painting yours?

 

i have a 94 that is black. Black plastics in the whole interior except the carpet and seats. Twin93: were you at that meet at your KC race track this past summer??

 

An event at the drag strip? I went to the Sport Compact Challenge that was June 6th, there were a few other KC club guys there. But unfortunately I didn't make it out to any events at heartland park race track in Topeka with the the club. I went on the Rotary Revolution too, we met up with a few St Louis guys for the drive out.
About your seats...if they are leather, vinyl paint works REALLY well. You can just spray the seats black.

 

wow...vinyl paint....never thought of painting my seats

 

try using some type of liquid fabric dye and bleed the carpet black.

 

ha, i just tore the tan carpet out and threw black carpet in.... If you know what your doing its very easy. I didnt even have to take the dash out. I just cut it at the same place then it attaches in places where you cant see it. So my FD went from tan to black in about a days work. And if you need to do little spots use Shoe polish. It works good on places that you just need a little spot done.