What is the <U>best way</U> to change an interior to black? (Dash/Door Panel / Etc.)

For example a Civic Hatchback 96-00 interior comes in grey. I would like to change mine to black.
I know that some will say to get the 99-00 SI interior but that is Dark Grey. I want my interior to be black.

Example:



What is the best way to do this? I know it can be painted, dyed or wrapped. Has anyone had any of these methods done on their car and how is it holding up?


Thanks

 

My brothers ek interior was dyed black by an autobody shop...

it looks oem, and nothing is flaking or w/e

might be expensive tho.

 

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it looks oem, and nothing is flaking or w/e

might be expensive tho.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Thanks for the info! Can you give a ballpark price?

 

They make some models with a black dash there is a guy from panama on honda-tech with a factory ek with black dash..

 

looks hot

 

has anyone used black vinyl paint? was thinking of trying it on my EG interior - door panels, headliner, A-pillar trim (I got an OEM black dash...) but I don't want it to come out looking too shiny....

 

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Well duh. The OP posted a pic of an EK4 that has black interior. More than likely Civics from different domestic markets had black dashes, like Panama.

 

Well you could try to find a black dash from one of those markets and then it would be easy from their on out to get the rest of the pieces in black..

 

honda shouldve made them all black

...*******

 

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...******* </TD></TR></TABLE>

agreed

 

for the dash i'd go with dye..spray paint and vinyl don't seem to like each other much. i'd try something called Krylon Fusion for the plastic panels..they "bond" to the plastic to it's pretty hard to get it to come off, unlike regular black spray paint

 

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yeah damn lucky, also have sunroof, and i think theses a air vent on the top of the dash like the eg

 

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gonna try this on my door panels and a-pillar trim...

now what to do about the headliner...??

 

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yeah damn lucky, also have sunroof, and i think theses a air vent on the top of the dash like the eg</TD></TR></TABLE>

Yup, Honda F*cked us and gave us all the crappy ****.

 

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gonna try this on my door panels and a-pillar trim...

now what to do about the headliner...??</TD></TR></TABLE>

Post here on how it turns out!!! Thanks!

 

my old eg, it had blue vinyl interior. i bought some cheapo vinyl dye in a spray can from a local autoparts store. Stuff worked extremely well! in 4 years it still looks immaculate and oem. for the plastic pieces, take them to an autobody shop, they can do it for relatively cheap, and it wont flake. but i was suprised how well the cheap vinyl dye worked

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by foo &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">my old eg, it had blue vinyl interior. i bought some cheapo vinyl dye in a spray can from a local autoparts store. Stuff worked extremely well! in 4 years it still looks immaculate and oem. for the plastic pieces, take them to an autobody shop, they can do it for relatively cheap, and it wont flake. but i was suprised how well the cheap vinyl dye worked</TD></TR></TABLE>

Are the rear panels in an 99-00 Civic HB plastic?

I heard somewhere that the Dye will not work on the rear panels since they are made of plastic... Or will it still work?