Hey guys, is there any products to dye the fabric of the roof panel?
Over the years the roof panel fabric has been stained in a few spots and a bit of general dirtyness, LOL, so I figured it was time to change the color and hide the stains as well.
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Hey guys, is there any products to dye the fabric of the roof panel?
Over the years the roof panel fabric has been stained in a few spots and a bit of general dirtyness, LOL, so I figured it was time to change the color and hide the stains as well.
im sure you can dye it but the roof liner is a very thin material. and if you dye, you'd want the best dye product out there to spray on.
I believe someone had did this already, I forgot the username but he dyed the entire gray interior black.
i see a headliner DIY in your future. :msmile:
i've been looking for a good dye for it as i didn't want to risk drooping and wrinkles with wrapping it. i've done it before with my buddy on his sti and it was a huge PITA. keep us posted if you find a good dye
Dupli-Color has a charcoal grey vinyl and fabric dye in a spray can, I might give that a try. I did discover that the light grey plastic trim was rather stained and dirty as well, they cleaned up perfectly with a little sand blasting and should allow the Dupli-Colors matching "plastic and trim" paint to really adhere well.
the question I have is, How do you remove the headliner? I'd mod mine if I figure how to remove it.
yea your gonna have to remove the headliner, its not hard. As for the duplicolor stuff, I recomend agaisnt it. It looks good on carpets, seats, etc. but I tried it on my first headliner, i have a new one sitting in my garage right now. I'm gonna get mine re-upholstered probably next pay check. I found a place that will do it in faux-suede for like $150.
If you use the duplicolor stuff, if you can find a good way not to get the obvious spray lines, please share. $10 is alot better than $150 to get a black headliner.
EDIT:^^ to remove the headliner, take out all the things attached to said liner, if you can take out your b-pillars, c-pillars, and a-pillars, helps alot. once everything is removed, pull the front infront of the sunroof down, then pull the entire liner forwards to the front of the car, it will drop down, then take it out the drivers door.
How did you get pictures of my interior??..lol. What did you use to make yours black? dye or upholstry?
it looks amazing every time I see full black interior, but what do you do about the seatbelt things ?
Ooo I want to do this soon. Im a little worried though, I've never pulled the headliner off. Im guessing the small headliner piece to the sunroof is easy to do too?
I'd do it if i could take off my headliner
The headliner is a bitch to get out, especially if you have never removed it before.
Coming from the guy who's tore down probably every single piece of an ep.. kinda scares me
I just wouldn't want mis-matching roofing pieces. Kinda skeptical now. I wouldnt mind the a-b-c pillar vinyl pieces being black, Im not that particular on it.. but still. Maybe talon can toss up a DIY on this when he's doing it and be specific when he gets to this piece.
headliner is a breeze to take out if you know how to do it. My first time i struggeled with it for like an hour, second time i took one out i had it out in 5 min...mind you all the parts where already removed including the b-pillars (go scrap yard). I'm probably gonna write up a DIY when i go to install my headliner + the sunroof privacy cover. Now all i need is a day to rip some of my interior peices out.
Yup the first time is a bitch figuring out the procedure.
I looked into the cost of having the headliner reupholstered, oouuch! ! !
I could get the carbon cloth, epoxy and all consumables to vacuum bag a layer of Cf in place of the fabric for the same price, that would be cool, a carbon headliner!
yea, i was surprised at how much it would cost to reupholster it. cheapest i found was $175 for just the headliner, not including the privacy panel. CF headliner would be cool. Would probably crack/be a bitch to put back in though.
a diy headliner removal and install would be awesome!
I highly doubt it would crack or break, a properly selected and applied Cf/epoxy matrix will be flexible but springs back to the original shape, you could even cut thin strips of the matrix and tie them into a overhand knot without breaking. You will need to keep the ratio of epoxy to cloth(by weight) down rather low, this keeps the epoxy from becoing brittle. Epoxy is a plastic, so it can be mixed to produce the full range of hardness like any other plastic. The strength of the matrix should be derived mostly from the fibers not the plastic, the plastic merely retains the shape.
did it today looks soo good
I picked up 4 cans of the Duplicolor fabric spray dye stuff, I will give it a try and see how it comes out.
you damn kids with your spray cans!
interested to see how talons turns out...
did you have to take the entire side plastic pieces out to get your b-pillar covers off Onasty??
Onasty so you spray painted the pillars and what did you use for the headliner? It looks pretty good.
And would glue and fabric work like with the door inserts. Anyone think it would work with the headliner?
I have almost three cans on the headliner and it looks decent already. I will let it dry overnight and get 2 more cans for the roof and that should look nice. I will also snag some for the trim as well, I will need to grab some more sand to blast the surface to clean and texture for the spray.
no i just pulled them forward and it slipped out
I used the duplicolor spray idk y it looks faded in the picture but its black and when i put it in the car it looked really black. For anyone that doesnt know because i did you have to take the moonroof glass off to get to the privacy cover. Oh and if you paint the pillers b careful when installing them back in.
Onasty, they are looking good, how many cans of spray did you use on the headliner?
perfect, thanks. Might swap my black ones in tonight.
Yep that is exactly what I will end up using. And I do believe that seeing it is the black tint, that you need to apply it in several coats and when it is black enough there are no spray marks. I think the main reason why people are not satisfied with the headliner fabric spray is the very fact they do not apply enough to get the full color change.
I know I asked it somewheres but cant see to find the reply, but I want to disable the half-way closing stop on the sunroof and cant figure out which connector needs to be disconnected. The battery isnt installed or I could figure it out.
ill grab a pic right now...
EDIT: Pics
http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/f...gswitch009.jpg
the grey plug
in reference, this is looking in from the trunk
http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/f...gswitch010.jpg
Thnx alot bro!
The pic tells a thousand words!
no prob sir. Last pics i took of my bare-ass roof. I've been running without a headliner for over a year, untill last night. Last night i got every thing back in and buttoned up. Sooo nice now. I still need to figure out how to change the shoulder part of the seat belt hanger black, but other than that, EVERYTHING is jet black, and my lights are black housed with a tinted lens on them. Ill grab pictures tonight.
Well the headliner is done. I am very satisfied with the fabric spray from Dupli-color. I tried to find somewheres out of the sun to take a pic, but the sun shines thru the foliage in spots, but you can see that there are no spray patterns. Do make sure you get the flat colors and not the gloss, or it will look extremely rice.
http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g9...nterior048.jpg
1 can=crap
2 cans=still crap
3 cans= starting to look ok
4 cans=this might actually work
5 cans=Wow, nice job!