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Old 10-03-2008, 09:20 PM   #6
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OK, now I’m on a computer.
Before pics:







Now pics, Full black and blue interior, headliner and sun visors:












The interior is the same as the original pics, bar seats and door trims. The colour match is really good. Even the dash vents are the same as what came with the car:



The products that I used were VHT vinyl dye on the dash pad, a pillar trims, and most of the other black parts. On the sun visors and upper B pillar trim I have used a black paint. There are parts of the dye that is funny, and I’ve been meaning to touch them up.

The way that it was done is that I stripped all of the interior back, to just having the dash in there. Every thing that could be pulled out of the dash was. EG. Cluster, center fascia, seats, door trims, glove box, side panels passenger airbag, steering wheel, steering column covers, as I said I mean everything. This is the only pic I have:



Then went over the vinyl dash pad a few times with k&h wax/grease remover. Taped up overspray areas, and then sprayed. Not as how the can says though. Through all my use of the dye I found that doing one layer, let it dry until touch dry, and then apply next layer, and so on until your happy with the colour. Oh and you don't need to wait 72 as per VHT say, couple of hours are sufficient

Doing the dash took me two weeks. But that was due to the painting the bottom part. Truth be told, doing the dash pad alone took me a day. I would say two days though for stripping and re-assemble.

All products used were brought from autobarn, and I’ve gone through stupid amounts of dye and paint to get to this stage now, but it's still not done. I still need to modify and paint blue the center fascia, paint some other parts, and then some other things.

The only problem that I have with the vinyl dye is that it is not a real "hardy" product. I've found it scratch of easily. I tried paint on the sun visors and top B pillar cover to combat this but it still has scratched off, but not as much as the dye.
Although even "nargee's" pursuit who had the interior dyed professionally is still wearing the colour thin and through in the same areas as what mine are, so yeah. See detail below of unhardy dye.



That’s about all that I can think off. If you want details of how the bottom part of the dash is painted, I’ll post that too. But I would recommend against doing that unless you are really comfortable with painting.

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