those of u that had tan interiors and swapped out sum black (leather) interior peices, seats or trim please let me see your pics. i have a cloth tan interior thats in good condition but wanted to swap out all the black leather seats from a wrecked max and other black parts. i dont wanna go all black but would like to see what some of you guys out there did as far as 2 tone interiors... thanks

I'm in the process of doing the opposite. It'll look much better when it's all done. The tan I have is more of a grey than tan tho.




i've gotten both the front seats in and the headrests. This week I'm finishing up the back seat and attempting to fabricate some door inserts. I'm also going to paint the dash trim to match.

ive done the entire brown to black swap .. what a freaking nightmare it was ... cost me soo much $ and so much time .....

hey man I hope your not done with the leather, that looks really loose ? .. did u take the old seat cushion off ? .. you need to use hog rings and hog ring pliers and get it nice and tight ...

freaking nightmare, what happened?

WTF did u do....
u need to ALT CONTROL DELETE that $hit!!!!!!!

it was just very long and tedious to get everything done properly ... i also should have bought everything at once instead of doing it piece by piece ..... also taking the headliner out to dye it black was a nightmare .. that thing is bulky ..... and the WORST was lying out the new carpet and cutting holes for each bolt hole

i wanted to do this, but then looked at all the work and realized its not worth it for me

I have the black and tan two tone. I will post a pic tomorrow.

good luck wit the rest of ur swap wetzel... i currently have tan but was thinkin of switchin def the seats but little peices like the trim around the interior door handle to black, the window controls, and the hand cup thingy. as far as seatbelts in black and $hit like that i dunno.

is the bottom of the rear bench done? that **** looks baggy as all hell

Here's the pic of my interior. I knida like it actually.

that looks really good man. Nice job.

Thank you. I am too lazy to do the whole thing, plus I don't really feel like spending the money.

I think u need a little bit more black on ur dash and door area to really compliment the seats... but it looks like a great job done...

The center console is black and the area around the steering wheel. I am going to be getting a black wheelskin to tie it all in also. Tha's probably about as much as I will do though. Thanks.

I hear yah, i did a tan leather seat swap in my civic and ended up just with the seats because i liked how it fit together and i liked having a few dollars left over



thats my old cars interior

wtf that looks hideous... those seat covers look like they came from autozone, and they dont go well with the other black pieces..

umm... its a work in progress cant you see? obviously they're not fully fitted... duh !

mmmm k no shiet..

Click my sig thread if you want to see one way of doing it.

look guys, I'm obviously not done with it. What I have is leather from leatherseats.com but it was for an oldsmobile alero. I got it for free from a guy so I said what the hell and decided to give it a shot. So I just threw em on to see if it looks decent and I think it does. The pictures make it look alot beiger than the grey that it really is. These pics were taken after I first got the first seat on so I've done more fitment afterwards.

SO, before the flaming begins, let me actually finish the project.

maximafan looks good man.. im gonna be doing the same swap you are but im probly gonna add more black peices from the door and other ares.. looks good tho. did u have leather before????

No, I had the lovely GXE cloth seats before. Thanks for the compliment.

looks like alot of work metal max.. but looks incredible and good luck

Looks good man! Keep it up!

I've been slowly working on a black/tan interior also. I don't have any pictures of the dash here at work, but all I've done so far are swap the vent trim and the defroster vents to black, and what's done in the following picture. Black interior parts, and 4th gens period for that matter, are hard to come by in the junkyards around here.

Here are the door panels so far, I'm thinking of going with the bottom center portion as black also. http://5speed.org/gallery/album01/P4120002

nearthsbrdge how hard was installing those door panels? can i get a pic of ur black vents as well.. thanks man! looks good

It wasn't too difficult at all. I removed the old inserts (which was the most tedious part), dyed them black and used some fabric/vinyl adhesive to reapply them. I'll post some pics of the vents tonight.

went to the junkyard yesterday and got all the interior peices in black like the door handle trim, window controls, hand cups, center dash, and interior lights.. the interior was grey/ black so not everythign i wanted to take was black. i found another car with a full black leather interior thats gonna be released into the yard this weekend so hopefully the interiors in good condition.. anyone know how much they might chagre me for the seats???

hey can you list how much you bought some of that stuff for. guys on the org like to think that every little plastic piece is worth 35 bucks each, i hate that ****.

That looks good.. definately do the lower sections too that would be hot!
How did the upper pieces go on? is it loose at all? the door panels are solid on the back so how were you able to get the tabs in tight?
DJ

looks cheap

Thanks for the compliment. My original plan was to go the easy way and pull the black leather inserts out of another Max, so I did out of a '95. I go to remove mine and oops...my '99 Cloth inserts don't quite come out like planned.

So I just carefully removed the cloth covers, dyed them, and reapplyed them with Fabric/Vinyl adhesive from Advance Auto (since there are no tabs, it's just a piece of fabric). The adhesive gave me enough time to align it perfectly into place before it set. I did this about 2 months ago and have had absolutely no problems so far with it coming loose, discoloring, or anything like that. I could probably do a full writeup if there was any demand for it.

I plan on doing something with the bottom portions when I finally get some time off from work next week...I think that'll make it look a lot better.

Here's what I got for $50 at a local yard --
2 Black defroster vents, 2 black air vents (the ones on each side of the dash), 4 black door cups & handles, 3 of the 4 black leather door inserts, black e-brake boot, radio trim & bracket, an extra DIN pocket and a shifter trim. Oh and 2 coil packs.

what kind of seats are these? where did you get it and how much? what brand?

Dude, might as well grab a bottle of spray paint and spray the interior black -_-

that looks awesome, where'd you get the leather from?

goobergo, Dude that is amazing looking. How long did it take you to do those seats, and how hard was it. I totally want to do that now.

i know wut you mean.. thats why i try and find as much **** i need at the junkyrds instead of on the ORG...

the guy was pretty nice and i got everythign i said before for $25 and he was like take w/e u want.



gooberg dude thats incredible... i love the 2 tone look on the seats! thats brown on the seats not tan rite???? how much u get ur seats for and how much was the 2 tone on them???

wow your lucky to get such a deal.

and gooberg...i agree...thats classy as hell. if i wasnt so $ deep into getting black pieces i would do that