Changing the Interior

[Guinness]

aint got a digi cam mate, just got the ones I took from the phone .

o have got some spare A pillars and Middle C pillar if anyone wants em, sell em cheap just PM me. They are grey but means u have a spare if you make a mistake or anything.

 

[Ant FR]

sorry for asking on this thread, but who had my black headlining, i was trying to remember whilst reading this thread

 

[gazjones]

i did ant picked it up when you went to the rugby.

 

[danmay]

mmm 2 tone!

had a go at spraying the headliner today, got through 2 cans of paint and it looked rubbish on the floor, put it in the car and it don't look too bad, just gotta go order the fittings from the dealer monday

as the 2 tone look is shockingly bad!

how do you take the A and C pillars out by the way? sprayed the bit across the back of the boot black and it's come up nice, but couldn't work out how to get the pillars out!

oh and for anyone else planning this, go buy a magic tree air freshener in preparation, as your car will STINK

 

[Aimez]

prob leave this one untill the Summer cos of the fumes! What paint did you use?
Are you getting Skoda fittings or Seat ones, the Skoda ones are cheaper from what Ad Lav said?

 

[danmay]

i used halfords matt black paint £6.49 per can i needed 2 and it stinks to high heaven!

will probably just get the SEAT ones, as i knwo what i'm asking for, will probably end up with the wrong skoda ones knowing me!

 

[Ibiza 130 tdi]

Goddamn you people! I want to do it now!

It looks really good from the picture! Is it easy to get the headlining out then without creasing it or anything?

 

[Aimez]

hmmm maybe worth investing in some material paint if you said it only took 2 cans and didn't look that good? So how did you get the headlining out?

 

[danmay]

take all the handles and sinvisors and lights and everything off (the bit where the sunvisor clips in is a BITCH it get off without breaking!) then as Guiness says just slide it towords the front of the car, and pull it out through the tailgate!
it looks good now its in the car, it just looked pants on my garage floor!
was pretty easy to do, i did it on the garage floor, after about an hour of fine coats i was bricking it becasue it looked horrendous, so i threw caution to the wind and went heavy and about 5 inches from the headlining with the can (my arm is now black ) dried it with a hairdryer, then whacked it back in!
does look far better in than it did out!

and the grey bits just need a thin coat of primer, then thin coats of matt black and they look the mutts too
oh what a fun saturday, a buckled wheel, a new tyre, and now a new interior!

 

[Aimez]

doesn't sound too bad I will do this in the Summer. What do you mean when you say the grey bits need primer then matt black?

 

[danmay]

the pillars etc will need priming first else they go horrible when sprayed, again, get some plastic primer from halfords, £5.49 a can, right next door to the matt black

 

[Aimez]

I will buy the pillars I think they are not too expensive or they might peel and looks crappy I think.

 

[danmay]

will check the prices of these when i go monday

Big thanks to guiness for piloting this whole thing though, would never have thought of it until this thead!

 

[Aimez]

yeh agreed, well done Guinness!
Let us know the prices for all the plastics if you can Dan, I will get the light from a skoda though as Ad Lav says its black so no spraying needed.

 

[gazjones]

the a pillers just pull off. they have the clips that have 5 very thin bits of flat plastic each side. the c pillers are a right pain. you have to remove the parcel shelf support to get to one of the bottom screws holding the c piller in and the c piller also clips into the support and its a bit of a pain. so few bits of boot trim need to be removed to get to the screws.

 

[Altech]

Haha i don't think i've even noticed what colour my headlining is!!

I think i've lost the modifying bug

 

[Ibiza 130 tdi]

I think i've lost the modifying bug

Please tell me how! It's costing me a fortune!

 

[danmay]

Please tell me how! It's costing me a fortune!

ditto!
had 3 months where i did nothing, now it's all gone mad again, got that many new mods to do and sooooo little money!

 

[Rosco906]

might do this to mines only if i get a dark interior tho lol

 

[Guinness]

looks class dan mate. As for the smell mine went the day after, just left the car outside overnight. O also bought a magic tree "new car smell" lol.

AL get some more pics up when Im totaly finished, got a w8 light coming soon hopefully. TT pedals and custom dead pedal went in today