CamarosRUS

i recently bought new racing seats with harnesses that are all black and i decided that black back seats would compliment it perfectly. but instead of buying new seats i tried spray painting them with fabric spray paint. and they look FREGGIN sweet! they make the apperance of my whole car look so much better with my ttops off!

before (sorry its such a bad pic you get the idea of grey seats tho)

CamarosRUS

new black back seats!!!!

nolanr0413

looks pretty black , good stuff.

br()bert

Looks good but isnt the spray paint gonna peel off of the trim area of the seat?

CamarosRUS

i dont think so. ive been messin with it and sitting on them and it has done alright so far. this paint is designed to stick well to fabric, vinyl, leather, plastic, etc. besides no one is allowed to sit back there anyway!!

easySPEEDcamaro

lol

"hey mom, why is it every time I sit in my car on a hot day, my back turns black?"

pasky

Hahaha, I could just picture that.

CamarosRUS

hahah funny guys....no this should do the trick its SUPPOSED to be designmed for this crap, but like i said earlier....no one sits back there anyway, especially causew for now my dvd player is just gonna sit in the back seat unbtil i can find a good way to mount it in the car

MrDude_1

stop calling it paint


call it dye


and noone will make fun of your seat making your back black...







lol, btw, i used the same kind of stuff on my carpet..... looks better then new.

fly351

yeah i'd be worried of having it rub off on your clothes...

scott's85T/A

I've been kicking that idea around, but also am worried about it wearing off so I havn't done it to my real seats yet. The stuff dose cover good.

This is an old pic. from when I put in my new carpet, and thought of doing the centers of my rears to try to make them look more like my fronts.

Dante93GTZ

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Personl opinion, Don't skimp and make it look good "for now". Lets see how well it looks in a year when its all faded and gross looking.

Its been said before: "You get what you pay for..."

Reapholsterer's aren't really that expensive. My father in law owns a shop and he does GREAT work.

Sonar_un

I painted my seats 8 months or so ago with Dupli-Color Vinyl and Fabric paint. It worked excellent and still shows no signs of fade.

<img src="http://www.zbalan.com/sonarun/TransAm/Seats/SeatBefore.jpg">

<img src="http://www.zbalan.com/sonarun/TransAm/Seats/SeatAfter.jpg">

CamarosRUS

i used the dupli color as well. like i said it covered great and looks incredible. ive sat in them a million times already and they seem to hold up fine.......but oinly time will tell. as far as fading, i dont think they will fade any worse than any other cloth besides my beauty has tinted windows and stays in the garage 99% of her life!

kretos

that looks damn good:hail:

Tobias05

Sonar thumbs up on the seats, now if only i could find the kind of paint that fixes those unsightly tears overnight

Brandon

GOFASTER

Looks great, where did you get the mounting brackets for those style seats???

tpiroc

Hhmmm, maybe it's time to go black with the 4th gen seats...

Looks VERY good, much better than I would have predicted. Excellent job.

Blake

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so what exactly is this stuff called? I'll do my back seats too black, seeing as how you cant go back there easily because of the racing seats... meaning its going to be a 2 person maybe a 3 person at a time car...

GOFASTER

heck, I am now thinking about doing my seats with some black triming like the 4th gen red/black seats. That would save me tons of money without having to buy new seats. Is this spray just the interior spray paint from auto zone type??? How many coats did you use? can anyone tell me if it rubs off or stays on pretty good??

Thanks

CamarosRUS

here ya go guys.......its called Dupli-Color vinyl and fabric paint from autozone. i used gloss black to bring out the trim on our back seats since it wouldnt make fabric gloss anyway, it looks Killer!!! its 5 bucks a can and you would need about 2-3 cans to do just the back seats. it doesnt rub off at all since its designed for this application. it comes in a lot of different colors as well. DO IT, it will make your seats looks brand new again!!!! then after youre done you can snap some pics and show them off to us here!

btw how many coats needed depends on how dark you want your seats. it doesnt take long at all to dry ether :lala:

grngryoutmyway

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There 4th gens, they bolt directly in our cars.... and they look damn nice if I do say so myself!

darkhorse91

I think he was talking about the sparcos and they should sell the brackets

89cmrodriver

id like to do this, but im scared that when it gets warmer out the paint will ruin your shirt.

CamarosRUS

im pretty sure itll be okay. like i said i dont know for sure but when it gets 90 here ill give it a test and let everyone know

CaysE

Is it just me, or does Sonar's first picture look like the painted part of the seat is red and mottled?? I'm confused.

The second picture does look good though.

Mike92RS

I thought the blue/red was a before painting shot, and the second was an after.

CaysE

Oh, ok. I just didn't understand where the red came from.

87ROCZ

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Would this work on carpet? My carpet is a couple of different shades of gray....dark, light, faded... lol...it is supposed to be medium dark gray.. ??

How much would be required to do a carpet I wonder? My carpet is in good condition just faded in places.. since I am doing my interior over (4th gen seats/console) I would like my carpets to look at least half way fresh...

CamarosRUS

yea it will work on carpet just fine. as far as the coats i dont really know but the balck i used really covered my seats nicely in only one coat............i used two though. go for it!

87ROCZ

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I will have to check at the local "Autozone like" place... for Canadian's that means " Crappy Tire " aka Canadian Tire... they seem to carry all kinds of that stuff...

bladz

how long does it take to dry? looks damn good and seems like a good solution to my tan seats with my grey/blac interior but i cant see myself driving around on a friday night with no seats and a box under me.

CustomX

the dupli color vunyl and fabrice paint rocks!

I sprayed my 4th gen dash black (from grey) with that stuff (used a couple cans on it hehe....had to make sure the stuff would be PERMANANENT) and frankly im suppppppppppppeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr pleased with it. the stuff rocks hands down!

Slush92RS

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You think you could use that stuff to change the color of the interior plastics also? I'm getting tired of my "80's" Red interior and would love to go all black with it.

CustomX

doesnt stick well to plastics just the vinyly stuff and fabric

Sonar_un

Yeah, I tried to paint the plastic peices on my seats when I did it. Even after some prepping time the paint just flaked off.

Oh well, I can say that it worked wonders on my seat. As for the red stuff, I have no idea what it was. All I know that it couldn't be cleaned. It still looks good to this day. The paint was a shade lighter than the rest of the seat, but its hardly noticable. One of these days I plan on redoing the entire seat.

CamarosRUS

well i used the same stuff on my 2001 TA console to make it black from grey and its holding up awesome so far. and the console it plastic so it should work for you. there is also the little plastic/vinyl trim on my backseat (all the 91-92 gouys would know) and the paint stuck better to that than to the actual fabric seat at first!!!!

82 Iron Duke

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I know this is an old thread but how did you mount the seat bels holders on those seats? I am going to buy some and I couldn't figure this out?

CAMp3RO

i actually used that stuff to re-dye some of my interior plastics. it did seem to do a good job and never ran. i was deffinately impressed.

IROC_5796

dont dye your seats..... i did mine with quality black dye, my girlfriends legs went black when she was wearing a skirt, it was the funniest thing i ever saw but i ended up tossing the seats. IMO just get a black interior

jjs_world

I was told by someone who used the same stuff, and he wound up trashing the seats, and plastics because of , the seats after a while started staining thier legs, and when he accidently bumped his plastics with his boot, or dropped something in the cargo area. He said it looked very bad, very easily scratched, and nicked up. This is why I am actually lookin for the black factory plastics, and having my seats recovered the way I want.

SleeperFromHell

I've thought about sparco's but in the end i think i'm just going to swap in some Trans am seats.

sgt0704

i did my head rest just as a test, and i like how it came out.

dwillis

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I bought a red headliner for my 92 from a scrapyard cheep($20) and used that stuff and painted it black it took a few cans but it looks great and was still alot cheaper than a new one...i did that because I couldn't find a black one that cheap...if you take your time and spray it on lightly so it dont clump it works really well i think

sr.bond

i couldn't agree more,the paint wears off fast and leaves a powder-like residue on your clothing(i t doesn't stain them though) is better to have the seats reupholstered.

C. W. H.

You can use the vinyl spray on plastic, but you should use the ahehsion promotor spray first....duplicolor too.

Later,