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My journey to the salvage yard.. Pics Added

I have been trying to do a swap from my beige interior to black but it wasn't going to good. So far I only had the door panels. Well last weekend I decided to take out my carpet to get it dyed. So while it was out I thought it would be a great time to try and find some black panels. So I spent all yesterday morning calling all around georgia looking for any black interior panels. Finally I talked to a guy Who said he had several coupes with black interiors but he couldn't be specific since they only inventoried the dash. So I took a gamble and took off work at 12 and drove 2 and a half hours to get there. I went to another salvage yard first but they said they didn't sell to the public(which made so sense to me). Well once I got there I found out they only had 2 coupes with a black interior but he said one was pretty new and should have just about everything I was looking for. So I checked it out and nothing had been takin out of it. I went up there with $400 but i figured i wouldn't be able to get everything I wanted with that but I asked anyway. I wanted all 4 seatbelts with female latches, both rear interior panels, both kick panels and floor panels and the complete center console. He said he would give all of to me for $250 plus tax. So I ended up leaving there with everything I wanted for only $265. Now all I need to get is the black leather rsx rear seat and a black dash( which I already have ordered for $200) and I'll be done with my interior. So needless to say it was a good day. I'll post some pics when I get everything installed tonight.

cool. congrats on the purchases.
pics of the stuff and get pics of the process!!!

congrats excellent deal for everything

you got hooked up majorly

i hate you....more than I hate my beige interior actually...lol

you lucky s.o.b.

u got lucky, dang man

dang!

so nice that you guys over there actually have salvage yard with civic on it........

we have a junkyard.....with the size two or three times a football fields.......but what u can see are domestic and domestic......

funny part was when i was looking for civics. They have a guy that drives you around to where the car is. This guy, whos name was doug, drove around like a bat out of hell, he was doing like 60 through the place. Well after I bought what I wanted, i was sitting in the lobby waiting for them to take everything out of the car, since they wont let you go take it out yourself, and I noticed that doug had a flat tire on the truck he was driving. About an hour later I hear a noise and see him fly by still riding on what is now just the rim. That guy was crazy.

There is a good website for looking all of that stuff up. You can search salvage yards across the US and Canada. Its www.car-part.com. Really good website. A ton of salvage yards post their inventories online, so when you search, if they have it, it will be in the search results.

thats great to hear -

one of the first things i wanted to do when i got my car was swap the shyt brown interior for black -

lemme see if i can find you the black rear rsx seats - I have a few connections

only thing is - I have heard that once you take the dash apart and put it back together that it will rattle

that would annoy me to no end -

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Originally Posted by 03civda

Yeah that is a really good site. I actually didn't find it til yesterday morning and that how I got the number for the salvage yard I ended up going too. It's a great site to go to for just about anything your looking for and you can narrow it down to either a region or even a state.

Well I put everything in last night and I love the new look. Only thing i dont like is the carpet. I went with vht silver satin dye but it looks grey. I have asked a lot of people what color does it look like and i have gotten grey everytime. Plus I put down 3 coats of rain guard on it and the thing still bleeds. So i guess I will have to just go with the oem black carpet. I know a silver carpet would look so good in there but oh well. I will have some pics on in just a few...

nice I wanna see hurry hurry

nice. it shouldnt be too hard to fix the hole on the headrest of the pax side seat.

Dude, you know your back seats dont match. JK. looks nice, glad I already had a black interior, although in south carolina it gets hot as F#($.

theres a whole it that one

looks real nice. but hes right, down here in the south, the black interiors get really hot, really fast. the things we go through to have nice cars

if you're dying the carpet anyway, i would dye it red like the type-r. red carpet with black interior looks rad.

Looks good man i'm looking for some RSX seats in tan because my current seats are a bit dirty from the previous owner.

not to shabby, ur almost there

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Originally Posted by Skunk2ner

if you're dying the carpet anyway, i would dye it red like the type-r. red carpet with black interior looks rad.

I'm going for a black, silver and blue interior. I already have the piece around the radio and ac controls painted blue and i'm getting the side ac vents painted to match. But if I wasnt doing that then the red would look good

looks good, can't wait to see it completely done

Like it...Looks real nice..>Cant wait to see the rest of the pics when its finished

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Originally Posted by cosmo

What paint you use?

The carpet dye was a vht silver satin.