Car customization

Mithrandir · Post by **Mithrandir** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 3:24 pm

how much do you think it will cost to get new fabric put on my seats. I wanna get fake black fur on both bucket seats and my backseat and what can I use to paint the plasics in my car like the vents dash pad or door panels?

smoker · Post by **smoker** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 3:45 pm

what kind of car is this? just trying to get a visual and what do you have airbrushed on the side of it?

Mithrandir · Post by **Mithrandir** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 4:03 pm

its a pinkish purple 95 sunfire lol.

geolemon · Post 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.

MobileAudio219 · Post by **MobileAudio219** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 12:24 pm

geolemon wrote: 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.

Most of the time you can just sand the texture right off, sandable filler primer is also handy.

raw9283 · Post by **raw9283** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 1:04 pm

geolemon wrote:cut matching faux-fir panels, and stitching those together for you, then reinstalling them.

hmm...fake christmas tree car seats, I think you're on to something!

Mithrandir · Post by **Mithrandir** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 2:01 pm

i dont want em stitched like the were i just basically want it to look like a seat cover me thinks lol

Post by **GlassWolf** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 2:55 pm

reminds me of back when I took the festiva and put vinyl cow spots on her and made cow print seat covers.. that was fun.