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Re: DIY: Change the color of your door panels with suede!!
Oh yeah, when I was out on my spring break last week, I popped in a store for you, which had been really dependable for me- but just a differnet location then I usually go to- and they didnt have any green, any red, any microsuade at all!!! Microsuade isnt cheap. I think it costed over 75 for me to do this to my doors a few months back, and that doesnt include the multiple tests that I did on adhesives and fabrics and processes... blahh blahh blahhh.I wanna add this to the back of my coupe somehow now!!
Re: DIY: Change the color of your door panels with suede!!
You'll have to let us know how it holds up in the sun... Did my headliner on my old Mitsu. about 5 years back using #80, and with the heat from the sun the headliner just pulled away... I could never find a adhesive that was that tollerant of high temps without getting weak... The again I was bonding fabric (the headliner) with fabric... Maybe that was the difference?? Ohs well...... that car is long gone NEways.. Nice DIY though!!
Re: DIY: Change the color of your door panels with suede!!
Hey triz can you put some picks up of the interior of your car. I have the tan interior and im afraid to do anything cause i dont know how its gunna look with tan. My exterior is the clover leef green...thing....
Re: DIY: Change the color of your door panels with suede!!
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Hey triz can you put some picks up of the interior of your car. I have the tan interior and im afraid to do anything cause i dont know how its gunna look with tan. My exterior is the clover leef green...thing....
Re: DIY: Change the color of your door panels with suede!!
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Originally Posted by Keyees
Hey triz can you put some picks up of the interior of your car. I have the tan interior and im afraid to do anything cause i dont know how its gunna look with tan. My exterior is the clover leef green...thing....
Me 2, but on the original poor panel thread, theres a clover green civic like ours with green door panel inserts, and they look alright... its all about finding the right green. which is hard to go trust me...
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Re: DIY: Change the color of your door panels with suede!!
Ive been trying this for a few years, lol i live in AZ so the summers kill the glue, i even tried doin the back, but that failed too god i hate the heat.
I'm actually trying again today,but my car's interior isn't red anymore, it's silver. So i'm using a silver vinyl. I'll post pics when i'm done
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Sportin the DX with the high performance piston return springs, are you?
Re: DIY: Change the color of your door panels with suede!!
booba5185 - looks pretty good- I wanted to do something with the rear seats, but shit... I dunno what exactly. Hmm.. hopefully I'll think of something... I dont trust my passangers in the back with micro suede back there, as it is- anyone whos sitting in the back looks at my ceiling and draws in the microfiber for the entire ride.
Re: DIY: Change the color of your door panels with suede!!
I tried 2 things, on the passenger side, i took a dremel and cut accross the top so the fabric could go through, also cut the bottom, by the armrest <---horrible idea, do not try it lol, i was 18 and stupid lol. On the driver side i got a circular fabrib knife, masked it off, and got a nice think coat of glue, then cut it along the line. In my climate it didn't work cuz 140 degrees in side the car can tend to make glue wet again lol, in Oregon, it MIGHT work, good luck.
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A friend bails you out of jail, a best friend is sitting next to you in jail saying, "She didn't look like no cop did she?"
Sportin the DX with the high performance piston return springs, are you?
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