ive always wanted to do a black interior swap and ive been rolling around the idea of just piecing together a full interior and painting/dyeing all the parts black that needed to be. would this be the least expensive way to go?
If you can find a real cheap 4 banger tat has black interior you could buy that, and then part the rest of the car out and actually make money. I think that Mustang5L5 did it that way.
Replace: Carpet, seats, and door panels, seat belts.
Some have painted door panels, and that's fine if you do a good prep job and use good paint. I was worried about them holding up, so personally, I peiced together black door panel parts from my yard, and Ebay. I also had my headliner recovered at a local trim shop for 45 dollars. That's cheap and it looks excellent. You could try painting that too. I painted my rear seat belts. I used the 81 lap belts, so nobody will every see them or use them. But if I pull them out they are black. It made the really stiff, but they come out and recoil just fine.
I taped off my upper dash where it was black already and attacked the grey with paint reducer and a rag, and all the grey washed away and now I have an all black dash (it was 1991) FYI.
and I baught the rest of the stuff and dyed my rear panels where no one sits anyway.