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Old 05-13-2009, 12:41 AM
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i dislike my igrey nterior color on my 95 civic. how would u change it? painting? or just change the whole thing by buying new interior accessories. or perhaps swapping it from a new civic

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It depends on what color you want it to be and what year and body style you currently have.

Remember this section covers two generations of cars and several body styles.
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oh yeah. i'm looking to change the color of my EG coupe. it's grey and i wanted to change it to black. would u have to swap it out with another coupe or what?
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you could paint it, or you could bone up the cash and buy a nice black interior
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what kind of paint would it be just regular spray paint?
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I did the interior swap its not hard and you wont have to worry about scratching the paint either (or someone else scratching it, keys etc, etc)

I bought everything from ebay. now I'm much older and wiser I'd find your self a local "you pull-it" junk yard and wait for a coupe to arrive trick is to take a look through every few days.
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It will look like garbage if you spray paint it. That is such a ghetto and ricey thing to do. I would go with the guy above and hope for a good junkyard find, or try and find some of the pieces here on the HT marketplace...
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I did an interior swap from blue to black. Wasn't hard. You just have to find someone parting out a black interior coupe.
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Originally Posted by tercel95
It will look like garbage if you spray paint it. That is such a ghetto and ricey thing to do. I would go with the guy above and hope for a good junkyard find, or try and find some of the pieces here on the HT marketplace...
I painted mine w sem paint it's scratch resistant and doesnt fade. I guaranette you mine looks 100 times better than your stock black panels.
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dye it
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SEM Landau Black spray paint would be your best route to go if you wanna spray it.

any other spray cans just chip and sratch super easily, this paint provides a good finish and doesnt chip very easily. kinda pricey tho.
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I got brown interior it sux. but their is a paint at autozone for interiors and carpet paint. it wont chip and doesn't stink your ride up. its like 6 bux

http://www.autozone.com/autozone/cat...questid=247932
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I have seen some interiors that are painted, and they did turn out fairly decent. If you idnt know it wasnt stock, you prolly couldnt tell. and sry to hijack the thread, but what car would i have to use to get a beige interior, preferably leather?
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Originally Posted by tercel95
It will look like garbage if you spray paint it. That is such a ghetto and ricey thing to do. I would go with the guy above and hope for a good junkyard find, or try and find some of the pieces here on the HT marketplace...
B.S. Ive seen em painted and it looks friggin brand new. Its def an option. Heres some pictures of a spray painted interior, tell me if you could tell that its been painted. I can also tell you that it does not smell, bubble,crack, chip, loose color, etc. It is very tough.

Before:After:EJ1Fernando's EJ1, heres his build thread

https://honda-tech.com/forums/appearance-build-threads-122/1993-frost-white-ej2-nothing-special-2454035/
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he painted his interior and magically a new shift **** popped up...those arent even the same door panels unless he put those tweeters in there himself (not bashing)
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same door panels, i had to do the same thing to get my tweeters in my 00ex
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Originally Posted by FearTheH
he painted his interior and magically a new shift **** popped up...those arent even the same door panels unless he put those tweeters in there himself (not bashing)

Heres a midway picture

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HBK i am extremely interested in the seeing the end result, and so far looks very nice.
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Originally Posted by lponcian5799
SEM Landau Black spray paint would be your best route to go if you wanna spray it.

any other spray cans just chip and sratch super easily, this paint provides a good finish and doesnt chip very easily. kinda pricey tho.
Yeahh basically.
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Originally Posted by thi3v3z
HBK i am extremely interested in the seeing the end result, and so far looks very nice.
Its not my car lol. Look at his build thread, i posted the link 5 posts up.
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that car has some SEVERE rust issues. i couldnt imagine spending the money and time with the interior.
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damn that **** looks nice. i would hate to have tan interrior. how do u go about the carpet? is that spray painted a well? or dyed? those door panel look similar to the ex civic ones.
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where can u purchase SEM Landau Black spray paint
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Originally Posted by thi3v3z
that car has some SEVERE rust issues. i couldnt imagine spending the money and time with the interior.
Its been fixed already. Did you not read all 3 pages of the thread?lol.

Originally Posted by dsayavEJ2
damn that **** looks nice. i would hate to have tan interrior. how do u go about the carpet? is that spray painted a well? or dyed? those door panel look similar to the ex civic ones.
I dont think you can do the carpet lol. Too much moisture and stuff, I couldnt think of something that would last. Just get a black carpet, gotta pay to play sometimes.

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where can u purchase SEM Landau Black spray paint
Many many places online, just good SEM Landau Black. Here it is on amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Color-Landau-A.../dp/B000PL24M6

Ebay has it, carquest has it, your local autobody supplier should have it too. You might find it at autozone or walmart, who knows.
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omg that ***** expensive LOL does this have to be ordered offline or can it be at the store as well


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