bye bye ugly tan interior, hello 00+ charcoal interior w/ '03 dash. Will be a good opportunity to redo/hide a LOT of wiring...
you just need to find a charcoal headliner now
In Loving Memory of Phil Martin December 14 2005
I SATCHMOE YOU!!!! wrote:you just need to find a charcoal headliner now
I sure do. Did a little searching last night, found a few threads on how to dye it, as they're hard to find I hear...
they are hard to find thats why im glad i have one hiding in the storage room
In Loving Memory of Phil Martin December 14 2005
there one at my local yard think they want 40 $ for it thought about taking it but dyeing would be cheaper
I SATCHMOE YOU!!!! wrote:they are hard to find thats why im glad i have one hiding in the storage room
must've been my lucky day. I found a charcoal trim piece for my sunroof, charcoal sun visors, and a charcoal headliner. Only downside is I've got a sunroof and the headliner is for a non-sunroof car. Not sure what I'm going to do about the hump for the sunroof motor. I'll see what I can come up with...
Very nice. I was lucky to have the charcoal headliner from my old 97. I need to go back and redo/hide a lot of my wiring as well.
found
this fabric dye, picked up 4 cans of it. I dont really want to mess around trying to retrofit the headliner to fit my sunroof. I'll post pics when its all up and done next week...
I'll be awaiting pictures of your finished project. I've never tackled something such as a complete interior redo. Personally, it's those visual mods that the average person will never notice at quick glace that I like the best.
2004 Saturn Ion Redline
Mods:
3" SFPH pulley, Jason Smith rear stabilizer bar, progress springs, Mustang Cobra heat exchanger w/ BWoody brackets
just a little bit of wiring to clean up :1puke
More pics to follow...
EWWWWWW wire nuts. Use solder.
bluecavi04 _ wrote:EWWWWWW wire nuts. Use solder.
they're from 4 years ago when I first had my car. Inexperience reared its ugly head. Everything is soldered and heat-shrink sealed now...
Can't wait to see the new interior installed. You just think that wiring is a mess. You should see under my dash. There were wires everywhere from the previous owners amatuer alarm install (which they removed leaving all the wiring behind before selling it).
What year model were those door panels from? 05? They look super clean! Wish I had power windows and locks.
Shadowfire wrote:What year model were those door panels from? 05? They look super clean! Wish I had power windows and locks.
its from an '01 SFGT. The car was taken very good care of by the previous owner as well as Armor-all FTW...
Just realised I have to cut up the dash a bit. Mounting points for my cluster are a little different...
wiring is all done, so much cleaner now. for comparisons sake:
to this:
carpet is also "clean" and put in...
Clean! You're making me want to go through and clean up mine again. Theres a lot of cleaning I can do as far as wires and such.
i dont understand... u say ur swapping to graghite, but in the pile of parts i saw a ton of graghite stuff... whats the deal?
also, i think it woulda been easier to do just the dash then do one piece at a time, but thats just me
TAN FTL!!!!
z yaaaa wrote:i dont understand... u say ur swapping to graghite, but in the pile of parts i saw a ton of graghite stuff... whats the deal?
the parts in the garage are the parts i'm putting in, thats the reason they're all charcoal...
the only tan piece there is the headliner, and thats the one that was in the charcoal interior.
and as for the one piece at a time. Look at all the wiring I made disappear. It was pretty much necessary to gut the car so I could run wire wherever I wanted
its all good bro, I'll be happy when its all back together and I can drive it again...
charcoal interior ftw!! tan is pretty gross..
let me know when you dye your headliner! i wanna see some finished product
when i get to doing my headliner, im just putting a charcoal suede on it... my friend does it for a living (interior work for a bodyshop) so he said he would do it all for 200$ ... plus suede headliners are the tits... IMO but i may go with black... i just hate the tan!!!
good luck with your interior. keep the pictures coming
lol