Interior Color

KenshinZero · 09-22-2008, 09:14 AM

I'm trying to decide what would be better for my interior, I have the dash black leather (ware the light gray used to be), now i cant decide what to do with the areas that are tan-ish.

KenshinZero · 09-22-2008, 09:16 AM

And I tried to make a poll and failed

Ok never mind i figured it out.

cavaliers60 · 09-22-2008, 09:49 AM

I hope you are not painting the dash..... I made that mistake. It might look good at first, but a little later on, it starts to fade and it looks really bad.

If you are having it professionally done, how much did you spend to get the dash recovered?

KenshinZero · 09-22-2008, 10:05 AM

I didn't paint it, lol. I recovered it myself, its not actual leather, its more like the factory material, but black. I bought the stuff at Jo Ann Fabrics as well as the glue, all together it was about $75, and 8 hours of work, you can actually spray the glue on the existing dash (without scraping off the old stuff, found that out the hard way) and the glue seems to tack up and stick better.

[ion] C2 · 09-22-2008, 10:06 AM

pics?

KenshinZero · 09-22-2008, 10:11 AM

Yeah.
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[ion] C2 · 09-22-2008, 10:18 AM

looks decent, but did you seriously cover your passenger airbag with that? hope you don't crash

MattismodderX · 09-22-2008, 10:18 AM

other then the wrinkles around the center, looks great

KenshinZero · 09-22-2008, 10:25 AM

Yeah, that's from lack of experience, lol It's the first time I've ever done this, lol

KenshinZero · 09-22-2008, 10:33 AM

Thanks! B.T.W.

cherrington17 · 09-22-2008, 04:25 PM

yeah, id fix that air bag, and maybe a couple of those wrinkles around the center, but it looks decent.

now as for coloring the interior. hmm. i think doing a bright red like the car, will be a bit overkill... but any other color will look odd. so maybe a slightly darker red?

so your major colors will be black/red, and then maybe darker gray for accents (like the fabric piece in the door) something that'll just give some separation so it doesn't look like some black animal wasn't blown up inside your car.

[ion] C2 · 09-22-2008, 04:27 PM

i think you should do the trim in dark red

TheEdgeofSanity · 09-22-2008, 04:32 PM

i would do a black and gray interior...it'd be sweet

Vinalero · 09-22-2008, 04:40 PM

I thought about putting some dark red color to the interior of my car, but the more I look at the stock dash, the more I think it looks good.

Only think I'll maybe do is buy the CF kit from ebay.

[ion] C2 · 09-22-2008, 04:50 PM

I'll be getting the full genuine carbon fiber kit from Sherwood Dash

adam337 · 09-22-2008, 04:54 PM

^stickers.. ill sell you mine

and um. it would look better without the wrinkles and um take a razor blade around the seem of the airbag spot..

undecided02 · 09-22-2008, 05:16 PM

I like the concept of black with carbon fiber but if you did that I would say you need some chrome accents, ie: ac vents, door handles (interior of course) maybe something in the center console. I dunno, my first instinct with black is to add some shine to class things up. although red on black would be cool as long as it was like a dark maroon or something to that effect.

undecided02 · 09-22-2008, 05:17 PM

and dont stop at the dash it will look odd. do the whole interior.

leoalero · 09-22-2008, 10:45 PM

looks good for a first time but you should restart the dash with your experience gain and do the whole thing seats too and use a porshe dark red for your interior its so nice!! that thread gives me good ideas!

leoalero · 09-22-2008, 10:57 PM

Or the corvette black/red interior