Notices

Painting the inner sealing?

Thread Tools
 
Rate Thread
 
Old Mar 29, 2006 | 05:08 AM
  #1  
Petrus's Avatar
Thread Starter
v e i l o c i t y
 
Joined: Oct 2004
Posts: 340
Likes: 0
From: Sweden
Painting the inner sealing?

Can it be done? I´d really like to have my interior all black and the boring grey color of the sealing in the car just isn´t that cool. So is there any way to get it black. I´m thinking masking all areas inside the car exept the sealing and then paint it like any other bodypart. Thoughts?
Reply
Old Mar 29, 2006 | 11:40 AM
  #2  
Jedi54's Avatar
Administrator
iTrader: (7)
 
Joined: Mar 2004
Posts: 22,634
Likes: 3,503
From: The Dark Side
Umm, not sure how well that's going to work.

Why not just get a shop to put in a custom head liner?
Reply
Old Mar 29, 2006 | 12:00 PM
  #3  
tiggerlee's Avatar
May Cause Anal Leakage
 
Joined: Oct 2004
Posts: 3,191
Likes: 0
From: Orlando & Chicago
Ah ok you mean ceiling. Ok now I understand.

Yeah I agree with Jedi, just get a custom headliner made. Would probably cost more and look a hell of a lot better IMO.
Reply
Old Mar 29, 2006 | 12:03 PM
  #4  
Tamas's Avatar
Registered Lunatic
iTrader: (1)
 
Joined: Aug 2003
Posts: 3,591
Likes: 49
From: SF Bay Area, California
You can try using some dye - painting it like other body panels is not a good idea IMO.

Search for posts by WHealy, he did a crazy dye-job in his interior during his 'blue' project. He dyed mostly leather parts, but also some plastic bits, so I suppose the same type of dye could work on the headliner too.
Reply
Old Apr 1, 2006 | 02:11 AM
  #5  
Nubo's Avatar
Lubricious
 
Joined: Oct 2003
Posts: 3,425
Likes: 4
From: SF Bay Area, California
you'd need some type of dye but I think it would be very difficult to get good results with the fabric mounted on the car. It would be difficult to control the amount of absorbption. The odds of getting even coverage and not making a mess seem low. I think you'd have to remove the headliner and vat-dye it; in which case you might as well start over with a material that you really like -- leatherette, perforated, etc. etc.
Reply
Related Topics
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
92trbolzr
Series I Trouble Shooting
31
May 18, 2025 09:04 AM
Tgiolitto100
RX-8's For Sale/Wanted
1
Sep 29, 2015 10:52 AM
pjwermuth
RX-8 Discussion
5
Sep 28, 2015 11:36 PM
DG07
New Member Forum
3
Sep 28, 2015 10:58 AM
GK1707
RX-8 Parts For Sale/Wanted
0
Sep 27, 2015 07:33 PM



You have already rated this thread Rating: Thread Rating: 0 votes,  average.


All times are GMT -5. The time now is 11:35 AM.