Carpet And Dash Colouring

[Oakley 0]

Hey all,

 

Will be stripping the interior of my 5 door 205.. It has a terrible blue carpet which clashes with my red and black seats

 

Will it be possible to dye the blue carpet red?? And is there anything i can do to blacken the grey dash? its the rubbery plastic and looks awful IMO

 

Cheers.

Edited December 13, 2008 by Oakley

[MerlinGTI 3]

dying a blue carpet red just isnt going to happen I dont think, you would probally end up with a purple carpet! You might be able to go black or dark grey though, I know there are rattle can carpet dye's (folatec do one IIRC) but Ive heard they make the carpet very stiff. Best bet would be to pop up the brakers and get a black or grey base model carpet ( I dont think they did a red 5 door carpet?)

 

There are definatly spray paints avaible to paint a dash, again I know folatec do one. Just make sure you go hardcore with the degreasing and prep first

Edited December 13, 2008 by MerlinGTI

[Oakley 0]

Cheers Merlin,

 

Yeahh thinking about the carpet, i don't think it will go red either , so have chosen to go black, along with the door cards..

 

Will have a look into that spray you mentioned for the dash, and might nip down to the scrappy to see if they have any 205's in yet

 

How do i go about spraying the dash then? Just prep well and spray on? No priming or laquering? Rather like the bumper spray?

 

Thanks again

[MerlinGTI 3]

I used it once on an old cavileer I had, it worked well, didnt flake off etc..

 

I dont think It needed a primer but I really cant remember tbh. It was the folatec stuff (you can get it in halfrauds but buy online it will be much cheaper!) and instructions were on the tin reguarding primers and prep work.

 

For prep get some of those green scouring pads from sainsburys and some panel wipe from an automotive paint suppliers. Once done panel wipe and soft cloth it. This is really important as interior plastics are always caked in armourall/black to black type products with will reak havok with paints (reactions, flaking off etc...)

[Oakley 0]

Tar mate..

 

Going to the scrappy today to see if i can dig out a black carpet and some decent door cards (possibly seats too if there better than mine )

 

Will get some pics up when i start to strip it out and spray the dash and inside plastics

 

Cheers for your help

[dirtdog 4]

Dye the carpet black. You can dye the seats also if you really want, although they are still going to look like ironing boards unless you get some GTi style seats. I'm not 100% sure but you might be able to get 106/206/306 seats to fit with a little fiddling about.

 

Dashboard...why don't you get it flocked? I think Miles offers that service and the finish would be a whole lot better than with a spray can. All the hard plastic bits(not the rubbery stuff) can easily be sprayed with a can to a good finish (Make sure you use a decent plastic primer though)

[Oakley 0]

Dirtdog, Thanks for your reply, How would i go out about dyeing the carpet with a good finish that wont rub off?

[steve@cornwall 100]

Dirtdog, Thanks for your reply, How would i go out about dyeing the carpet with a good finish that wont rub off?

 

 

This has come up a few times and the general opinion is that as the carpets are actually made from a plastic material, dyeing won't work. As far as I know, nobody's tried it yet, though. It's not a difficult job to change the entire carpet though

[Oakley 0]

Yeahh i thought that, Going down the scrappy during the week when the weather eases up, so will look out for a black carpet when im down there...

 

Thanks again guys.