by geolemon » Sat Feb 18, 2006 7:25 pm
Just my opinion - but if you are going to paint the plastic panels, do yourself a favor and don't just paint over a textured surface... it looks ghetto, not custom.
On the other hand, if you actually take those panels off, smooth them with fillers that are compatible with those plastics (not Bondo
), and then paint them, they can actually look like a painted surface is supposed to.
If you want your seats reupholstered, that faux-fur is pretty cheap - all that is unknown is the labor required for a professional reupholsterer to remove your factory seat skins, unstitch them (leaving them with the patterns for your new panels
), cut matching faux-fir panels, and stitching those together for you, then reinstalling them.
I'd guess you'd be looking at somewhere between 8 hours and 16 hours... one to two full days of work, depending on how quick the guy is.
You'd save yourself probably a couple hours of labor expense if you simply removed all the seats and brought them there, so that they could jump right into the reupholstery... and then you wouldn't be paying for seat reinstallation either.
Just my opinion - but if you are going to paint the plastic panels, do yourself a favor and don't just paint over a textured surface... it looks ghetto, not custom.
On the other hand, if you actually take those panels off, smooth them with fillers that are compatible with those plastics (not Bondo :p ), and then paint them, they can actually look like a painted surface is supposed to. :cool:
If you want your seats reupholstered, that faux-fur is pretty cheap - all that is unknown is the labor required for a professional reupholsterer to remove your factory seat skins, unstitch them (leaving them with the patterns for your new panels :cool: ), cut matching faux-fir panels, and stitching those together for you, then reinstalling them.
I'd guess you'd be looking at somewhere between 8 hours and 16 hours... one to two full days of work, depending on how quick the guy is.
You'd save yourself probably a couple hours of labor expense if you simply removed all the seats and brought them there, so that they could jump right into the reupholstery... and then you wouldn't be paying for seat reinstallation either. ;)