Interior dye
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Burning Brakes
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From: spring branch texas
Interior dye
Just got my interior dye and i have a few questions.
I got the quart of dye for spray gun and a can of aerosol for smaller stuff oh yeah the primer too.
1. Can this stuff be used on the carpet?
2. How well will it hold up on the leather seats?
I'm also planning on using the Bulldag adhesive promoter on the door panels and other hard parts.
I got the quart of dye for spray gun and a can of aerosol for smaller stuff oh yeah the primer too.
1. Can this stuff be used on the carpet?
2. How well will it hold up on the leather seats?
I'm also planning on using the Bulldag adhesive promoter on the door panels and other hard parts.
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Burning Brakes
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From: spring branch texas
the vendor is just a middle man for the manufacture, I think I ask the questions in the correct place as i am sure many of the forum members have done this and have first hand experience, were as the vendor is just reading from a product description card and probally has no hands on experience.
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Originally Posted by js292
WOW! nobody has died thier seats! just wondering how it held up
i have used spray cans (from corvette america) on carpet, and it worked OK. first, i sprayed the carpet with a medium-light coat (one panel at a time), and work it in using a semi stiff brissle brush. let it dry, and apply a second coat, and work it in. shop-vac between coats. dark colors are easier than light colors. if you have limited funds, this is a solution to new carpet. for door panels, and hard plastic parts, make sure you clean it throughly with soap and water, a silicon remover, and soap and water again. YOU HAVE TO GET THE STUFF CLEAN! if the interior has ever had something like armor-all used on it, thats trouble. i've used SEM products (with a touch-up gun) and spray cans from corvette america with very good results
Last edited by Joe C; Feb 17, 2006 at 06:30 AM.
Melting Slicks
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I've used RIT fabric dye on the carpet. It worked great and didn't leave a hard rough feeling that the spray on products leave. The aerosol products aren't really dyes, they're coatings. Being such, they wear off rather quickly on any parts that are subjected to wear like leather or vinyl seats and sill parts.
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Burning Brakes
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From: spring branch texas
That's the info I needed, thanks Joec for the link to the leather repair site. I had one of my bolsters repaired and it's not a complete match so the info on that leather site helped