ok i just got back from a trip yesterday, 8 hours in a car with my mother so my mind wandered all about everything and i was thinking....

mabe i should get my seats re upholstered....i have leather seats and they are in good condition (except drivers its in OK condition) and i dont like leahter so i was thinking of getting them upholstered with some regular fabric, black on the sides and tan down the middle...then i was thinking it wouldnt match so i sat and thought of a way to make it match and i came up with this idea:

take all of the interior and its brown, a lighter brown and a dark grey (arround the stero and under the spedo and such) take EVERYTHING dark brown and use Vynil Dye and clothing dye (for carpet/fabrics) and change the dark brown to black and leave the lighter brown to match the center of the seats...

now i dont have acess to a camera at the moment otherwise i could do a photoshop example so your going to have to imagine it, how do you think it'd look?

in my mind it'd make the car seem newer and from the inside SEEM sportyier

 

That's not a bad idea...considering I'm not a big brown fan (and I am very thankful I have the frost silver interior). Anyway, if you like it, you should do it. I'd have to see how it turns out if you do. I know Jose did a really nice reupholstred interior, which a nice vinyl. He also did the fake wood trim treatment. You should ask him for pointers on it to make your work easier.

S

 

I've been looking at my old '87 brochure and I'm gonna play devil's advocate here. I think you'd have less man hours put into it if you swapped out your seats for SE seats. They're cloth (though suede was available on a special edition '88 if memory serves), they have more side support than GXEs, and you can more or less find direct color matches for your existing brown interior. This Ebay seller has (though not at the moment) a bunch of New Old Stock parts up for sale about every week or two and I've seen lots of seat bits ranging from just covers to the whole cushion/cover deal...leather covers, cloth covers, door panels, etc and the starting bids are usually $9.99 to $24.99. I've dyed some fabric for my current headliner project and it's not fun. I haven't used vinyl dye but I'd have to wonder how it would hold up on the hard plastic section of the door panels. But who knows...I could be completely off but I've done some interior work on my old '91 and my current '97 (ultrasuede headliner and some custom leather bits...see homepage) and can tell you it's a very time consuming process if you want it to look good.

 

the only fabrics i'll be dying would be the floor and the small carpted peice bahind the backseat under the rear window,the peice the speakers mount on, and the funky fuzzy trim peices that i can take off......the headliner is in good condition other than the fact that it need to be cleaned...some one that owned the car before me smoked and its discolored it from the tar....a good steam carpet cleaner should do the trick but it'll be the hardest...i wont do it for a while...i need to get a quote...and i need to save up some money

 

Black all the way

 

no that would be way too much work....first i have to get the discoloration out of the light tan peices because of the super heavy smokers that owned the car before me....i'm pretty sure its tan...it could be white