Sup fellow Scionlifers! lol been on this site creeping around for a good minute n decided to finally make a lil thread on my tC, and i must say I've learned a lot
lurking around on this site over the years but here's some things I've been working on to where its at now. And still got a long way to go. smh.









My old door set-up when i was learning how to to lay the fabric down and experimenting with different adhesive.



Meh, not how I imagined it come out in my head but o well it was a learning process lol



So ended up running that for a year or so till i got to where i really wanted to do so this past week i took it all out







Was thinking about buying a new grill but i liked the OEM one so i just decided to paint it to give it a lil custom feel and loved how it turned out!





l'il vid of the paint an how it looks




Then i went paintin crazyy



















Then in the meantime while those were drying i decided to go Martha Stewart on the interior







Painted the dome light n lil buttons n cup holder





More pieces wrapped.



Not pictured in this pick but the border around the vents are painted too





And the door panels back assembled



But, that's about it for now got a lot more stuff i wanna do but funds are lacking after this week but hope u enjoyed an stay tuned for more stuff in to come!

 

WoW man...

You prob one of the few people that actually done a FULL on Interior color change.

Very cool...I dunno about the Paisley Pattern on the doors though...

Cant wait to see the finished deal!

 

exactly what I was thinking. nevertheless awesome execution!

 

How did you take out the dashboard? I tried and couldn't get it to come out.

 

thanks fa real! and trust me i know what you mean about the paisley "like" fabric but i just wanted to do something different n have fun with it. and well... i succeeded! haha but i appreciate the comments im hopen to get to borrow a good camera soon all i got in cell phone pics for now. but i forgot about this pic of my trunk..

 

wow. full color change inside! did you reupholster the roof/pillars?? or fabric paint?

 

https://www.scionlife.com/forums/sho...t=dash+removal < thank yellowxhoodie for this one

 

yep sure did! i had this golden tan suede before. now its a denim jean material

 

what glue did you end up using, looks like it held well. When i did my roof of my old car i think i used the 3m 90 spray adhesive.

 

wow this is quite intense, watchin for sure

what glue do you use? I have such a hard time gettin stuff to stay stuck...

 

as for adhesive used, in my past experieced ive tried the M3 90 spray when i first did the inserts but in the long run didnt like it cuase with the sun beats on it over time i saw in little areas like 2 to be exact ehh.. it started coming up, so i did some research and found this contact cement by weldwood but "gel" form, and i used it on my headliner in my last set up and it worked out very well just had to brush it on the object itself n fabric.... only thing u gotta remember is you gotta let the part stay out of the sun for 72 hours to cure right or else you'll run into problems. but anyway hope this helps!

 

Got a Question..

What kinda of Prep work did you use on the Door Panels & Dash Board?...Since they have the "Rice Paper texture" on the surface. Will the paint eventually start to Chip Off and look awful?

Or did you do use a special kinda paint??

 

Sounds awesome, do you have a link to thus stuff? Been meaning to redo my door pandls

 

Not to my taste but good job on doing the whole thing. Id say you should just wrap the whole thing instead of painting some

 

as for the chipping i havent had any problems so far (keeping my fingers crossed) but all in all its holding up very well. if it start chipping then it back to the drawing board. im just learning. an for me i dont mind...

but as for the door panels i just did the typical sanding like crazy going from heavy to fine sand paper. then clean the panels with wax n grease remover while i had them hung up in the garage. i put a few coats of primer filler to fill in the small scratches from the sand paper then i used a regular primer (and all the primer i used was for plastic material). then i started with the paint i ended up using the rustelum brand from lowes or menards for plastic. and then clear coated the pieces afterwards

as for the dash i was a lil unsure of how i wanted to do it, from past experiences but i just ended up just scuffing up the dash before i applied the adhesive so it would bond better. i did however to a razor blade to the dash to see what was under that rice paper material and it was like a cardboardish material which gave me an idea on maybe down the line ill replace that with a foam like barrier and then lay my fabric on top so the theres like a breathing area so when the sun hits the dash on hot dash it doesnt mess with the glue but ehh just a thought.

 

smh i wish i would have found this before. but i found out that weldwood actually makes adhesive for car purposes i dunno how i missed this but knowlegde is key.

http://www.yourautotrim.com/noname37.html

 

the stuff i used

http://www.lowes.com/ProductDisplay?...llow&cId=PDIO1

but i posted another link to the stuff i just found

 

Thats amazing....I digg it. Props on the work!

 

appreciate it bro!

and heres some pics of it installed finally was able to put my dash in today!

 

Not a huge fan of the colors/patterns, but i definitely give you props for all the work and it turned out good for what it is