I went paint crazy

[Toxin13]

These past few days I've just been painting non-stop. Next will be finishing all the blue like the pictures below, reupholstering the door fuz, painting the mass of the doors and the glove box area black, speaker grills blue, and front handles blue.

I think I'm also going to put some LED's into the overheard compartment and wire them down the side and solder into the passenger foot light. I already have the soldering, wiring, and LED part down, but if someone can give me a clue as to if I need a resistor or something else to wire from there, or where I'm putting the LEDs, that'd be well appreciated.

Here is what I currently have painted:

Overheads
6961

Dome (Broke the clips, I need to put a screw through in the morning)
6962

6963

Door reflectors (Skull stencil and painted on both door reflectors)
6964

Looks like somebody took a dump on my floor...
6965

6966

Back doors
6967

Sub for the time being, since I blew two Jensen 10"s and two 12" Kicker CRVs in the same day, this is an 8ohm Kenwood sub for in a home, but works and kicks NICE with the 760w amp.
6968

[Nate's Alero]

not my taste,


you need to clean your car.... and i thought MINE was bad!, my carpets have no stains...

[Toxin13]

Lol, it's all dirt, nothing in there too bad, but I haven't got a chance to clean it since doing all the work in a dirt pit.

[wrestlingandrunning]

not usually a big fan of interior accents but i must admit that does look good

[Toxin13]

Thank you, I think this color is really going to work when I dye most of the vinyl black. I'm planning to do a DIY for the big ass dash removal, since I've only found odd links and pictures of other cars in the search. At least that way it won't all go to waste if the dye doesn't work out.

[[ion] C2]

:wtf2:

[Toxin13]

So is it hard to dye carpet dark or am I better off just scrapping what I've got and buying new?

[cherrington17]

what is with everyone baby blue-ing their cars?!?

did that suddenly become the "it" color?

[CactusWill]

Why are you doing all this interior work when you haven't even vacuumed the car yet? Thats like gold plating a turd before you polish it.

[Toxin13]

Well, blue is my favorite color, and the car was already blue. Made more sense to me to do interior accents blue as well..

And the car wasn't in need of a vacuum before I started on the interior, as I said, I'm working in a dirt pit there, but I don't have much of an option.

[AleroDrime]

im panning to recolor my car black and silver, lemme know what your gonna do with the steering wheel and roof, i want both black, looks like im just gonna have to take a large hit to my wallet and get those reupholster

[cavaliers60]

reminds me of my dark days of painting..... nothing good came out of it in the long run.....

[Nate's Alero]

i really didn't wanna say it,


painting interior's looks horrible!

[Psyfox]

I agree, if you want to give your interior color, replace your map and dome lights with colored LEDs. That's what I'm doing, I already installed my dome light and I have an LED steering wheel cover and the interior is already glowing green. I got my LEDs from superbrightleds.com.

Next to come are the footwells and map and instrument lights (I will be sure to post pictures when my interior is completed).

[Toxin13]

I value your opinions, but in the end, I personally like it quite a bit over the plain gray look. As long as it looks good to me in the end, I'll be happy, and if not, I'll sand what I can and throw that carbon fiber skin all over it like I keep seeing. That in my opinion, looks horrible.

I'll be replacing interior lights with LEDs soon following the how to, as well as putting some in my vents, if all goes according to plan. Do you have a picture of your LED wheel cover Psyfox? And where exactly does the power come from for that?

[C_EICK]

I have those seat covers, best 10 dollar seat covers i've seen.

[FrankTheTank]

looks brutal. skulls are especially bad.

[jackal2000]

what...the...fuck.

[NickAlero2000]

what...the...eff.

Q F T

[Toxin13]

I'm confused by some reactions. Is it the painting in general or the dirty as hell floor?

[jackal2000]

mostly it's the handkerchief and seat covers.

[[ion] C2]

and skulls

[alerored04]

And the home sub in the trunk. Pretty ghetto dude. You should have stopped to think about this. You will regret it soon when the paint all starts peeling.

[Toxin13]

Oh, I didn't even notice the banana, it's been tied there for a year. The seat covers are an easy and good enough looking way of protecting my seats. The skulls, I can't say much about. The stencil didn't work as nicely as I'd have liked it to, but it suits me.

lol, It's a home sub or nothing at the moment.

[[ion] C2]

why protect what you never see? same idea with car bras haha.

[Toxin13]

Because they're not too hot looking themselves, but if I ever go to pull them out, they'd be a lot more valuable to someone else without the wear and tear. If the paint start peeling I'm going to be pretty pissed for dropping what I did into the SEM interior paint kit...

[jackal2000]

did you sand the pieces you painted prior to painting them?

[Toxin13]

With 60 and 100 grit, I read all the DIYs and found some off the site that suggested everything I used and did.

[alerored04]

Given that choice I would have gone with nothing until I could have found a deal on something a tad more respectable.

[Toxin13]

Why? If it bumps hard it bumps hard, and it most certainly does. I don't have to go popping my trunk at every stop light to show the town what's inside, I just need something that works and gives me that bass when I need it.

[Psyfox]

Do you have a picture of your LED wheel cover Psyfox? And where exactly does the power come from for that?

I don't have a picture at the moment because my car is at a body guy who is popping out and detailing both my front and rear fenders from when my cousin owned the car and hit a light pole.

Though, the power for that works pretty simply. There's a power wire leading from the inside of the cover connected to the LEDs that has a male tip on it that connects to a pouch with the female tip that connects to the switch on the pouch. In the small pouch there's a 9v battery that powers it, and the pouch has a velcro fiber on the back of it. So all you do to install is take the other piece of fabric provided that the velcro can stick to (which has a super adhesive on the back of it) and stick it to the underside of your actual steering wheel (not the column...otherwise you won't be able to turn your steering wheel without pulling the wire out), put on the cover, plug it in, and it works awesomely.

When I get my car back (Tuesday/Wednesday I should be getting it), I'll post a few pictures of it.

[leoalero]

C2;474987']why protect what you never see? same idea with car bras haha.

hahaha so true!!

[AbHeLlRaZoR]

I've seen far worse, but each to there own...

[lonnie]

This is my opinion: I am going to be honest....I don't like it at all...part of it is because of the dirty floors, and the other part is because it just doesn't look good. I appreciate the effort that you are making, but it should be done tastefully and I don't think this is it. Using the sub from the house to me is just wow.I don't know what to say..I know that sub has got to be at 8 ohms and you are using a 4 ohm amp....I am truly at a lost for words, and I know not everything is everyone's taste but I think you are going in the wrong direction with a car that nice of a color....Don't take this the wrong way I'm just trying to give an honest opinion.

[hok666]

not my favorite mod, but if it works for you cool..

[FrankTheTank]

With 60 and 100 grit, I read all the DIYs and found some off the site that suggested everything I used and did.
i'm sure that 100grit got it nice and smooth. :lol: