melvynray

im looking to do silver leather in the door panels in the front and rear.... how much should this cost? im thinking i can do it myself.. seeing that the cloth inserts are like stapled on... any ideas where i could buy the leather and or suede? thanks so much...

Neothin

leather i don't know, but the suede can be picked up at any craft/fabric store. we did black suede in my friends civic, it only took an afternoon to do the 4 door panels and the rear deck.

amanda776

That sounds like a good idea, just dont get some cheap crap. I'm guessing you can get the leather at a craft store maybe? I could be wrong.

Neothin

if you do end up getting the suede/leather done, please post pictures. i've been throwing around the idea of doing dark blue suede on my door panels :D

melvynray

where can i buy leather from? or sheets of pleather(it doesent have to be real leather.. as long as its silver.. i have leather seats already,,, )

melvynray

everything is sold by the yard.. how many yards would i need?

melvynray

anyone know of anyone on sl that did this.i searched for an hour..

Somnambulated

Don't do pleather. I did that to a previous car. Even though the stock door inserts were pleather, it looked cheap.

Easy to work with, yes, since it can be formed with a hairdryer.

But cheap.

If you have the stock cloth seats, why not look for Microfiber or Sueded Microfiber in silver?

texasisbigger

I used vynal on mine and the turned out great

-BrianH

melvynray

i have found some suede like prodcts. but it sells by the yard. how many yards would i need. also. im wondering if a green would be too overdone. i have green neons inside and out..

but as of right now, i dont know how many yards i would need...

qbanbreaker91

can somebody do a DIY on how to change all that and put new fabric...i would but i dont know how to do it.

melvynray

i would love a diy.. or at least someone tell me how much material i owuld need. (in yards)

BOXMAN

I used 10 yards and had about 2 yards left over. But i did my headliner A pillar B pillar and Cpillars as well as my trunk pieces

melvynray

wow. did u have a place u ordered the material from?

BOXMAN

My room mates Grandma runs a auto interior shop. All of the parts are easy to do except the headliner

drsmith4

so what type of materials do you need to do the apolstery (sp?) work? And do you need to remove the old stuff before you install the other stuff?

i007spectre

I want to bring this back Im interested in doing my door panels in silver suede. If I didnt want to diy, would a auto uppolstery place do it, and how much would it cost. Anyway how much a yard did you pay. and how many yards would it take to do just the door panels. Thanks. If anyone knows of a diy guide for this, please point it out to me.

Merc_tc

you need 2 1/2 yards to do the doors. 3 for the headliner and 2 1/2 for all the pillars.

tweetertc

holy crap there merc...

looks good... but does it get distracting at all when your driving... there are so many damn colors going on its crazy... but dont get me wrong it looks good...

Merc_tc

only on sunny days, the white from the dash is somewhat blinding