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Build Thread '83 T-top Coupe - Welding Holes in My Rear
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EXactly!Smart man! Bring it home running and looking pretty an she'll accept it a little easier.
I've got a question for everyone. Now that i have two clean covers for the rear seat, how do i dye them black?
Regular clothing dye doesn't work on plastic cloth. It can't absorb into the threads.
I've read about using spray on dyes that essentially are nothing more than painting your seat covers. I guess i can do this in the end, i may just give it a try for the hell of it.
Spray an adhesion promoter first, then a hardened base coat. Afterwards i guess i would need to comb/brush the cover to separate the fibers to have some semblance of softness.
Anyone got anything for me here?
Regular clothing dye doesn't work on plastic cloth. It can't absorb into the threads.
I've read about using spray on dyes that essentially are nothing more than painting your seat covers. I guess i can do this in the end, i may just give it a try for the hell of it.
Spray an adhesion promoter first, then a hardened base coat. Afterwards i guess i would need to comb/brush the cover to separate the fibers to have some semblance of softness.
Anyone got anything for me here?
Hey dave, mike's gonna start a reality show and wants you to co star, ROBY AND THE MONSTER
Yea and I can be the skinny tatoo'd guy that screws everything up and you guys have to fix it before it go's to barrett jackson and we can quit our day jobs and, and,
Wait, I don't have a day job, crap I'm confused again,
Yea and I can be the skinny tatoo'd guy that screws everything up and you guys have to fix it before it go's to barrett jackson and we can quit our day jobs and, and,
Wait, I don't have a day job, crap I'm confused again,
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I used a fabric paint to recolor the interior in an old car once. It was fabric paint made by duplicolor....I think. I used it on the carpet too. It was nice a black for almost a year. That stuff faded out over time....leaving the interior looking spray bombed. I could've resprayed it....or actually read the directions....but I didn't. I painted the plastic trim with it also. It stayed on as long as you didn't scratch it.
Maybe, with adhesion promoter, it would've stayed on longer.
That's all I've got, Dave.
Maybe, with adhesion promoter, it would've stayed on longer.
That's all I've got, Dave.
I "dyed" the vinyl fabric on the top of the red cars door panels. It seemed way more durable and more like what you'd expect a dye to be versus when you spray it on the hard plastic stuff where it would scratch off very easily. But on the soft vinyl.....it was like it was done that way from the factory.
Done before the "red car" was actually red.
I really only need it to last about a year, then I'll be able to afford my new seat covers.
I think I'll talk to some of my paint buddies and see what they know.
Thanks Mike, I'm only wondering about the cloth seats and the soft plastic sides. Your success encourages me to give it a try. What's the worst that can happen?I "dyed" the vinyl fabric on the top of the red cars door panels. It seemed way more durable and more like what you'd expect a dye to be versus when you spray it on the hard plastic stuff where it would scratch off very easily. But on the soft vinyl.....it was like it was done that way from the factory.
Done before the "red car" was actually red.
I'll see if I can find some pics. But as long as the parts are clean, and you scuff and use the painting prep on any vinyl parts, it'll turn out fine. I did a full interior of a 67 coupe once. Let me find pics.
The vinyl trim I'm not worried about, it's the cloth part. It's made with a plastic thread, not porous at all.
I may have to live with faded blue seat covers till I can get my new ones.
Duplicolor and ColorBond both make paints that are for both fabric and vinyl that should work on your seatcovers. I've used the Duplicolor in the past with decent results, and we use the ColorBond at work (I haven't used it on any cloth yet, but it works miracles on plastics and vinyl).
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Dave I used SEM vinyl dye in the spray cans to change my son's nasty blue door panels from blue to black. I scrubbed them with detergent, then wiped them down with the prep chemical and sprayed them. Vinyl, cloth, and carpet. All of it. It turned out looking like it was made that way.
Not many people are going to sit in the back so I wouldn't worry to much about them but in the front I put a t shirt over the back of my seats and the a towel on the bottom. I wear jeans all the time and they will wear a seat out in a hour anyway. Maybe some cheap seat covers for the front, I use front covers in everything anyway, nice for resale, just yank em off and seat looks new.
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I'm not sure i understand the question Allen....
Do you mean how the GLX seems gold in the one and green in the other? It looks gold in certain light.
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Sorry. Is the GLX lettering the finished product, or will that get peeled away to reveal blue paint?
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