alright well im sure im going to get some pretty bad bashing comments.
but anyway, i have a 91 crx and the previous owner completely gutted the interior and i am trying to consider my options to make it look better. of course easiest would be just paint it, but thats kinda blah i dont like the look it looks to rough and ugly, i could buy all the peices but even that can get pricy, or something totally custom.

so i was watching tv and a rhino liner commercial came on, and they do it to suv's now. so i was thinking "hey why not to a car" you can get them in basically any colour, and it would look pretty smooth compared to just gutted. so i just want to hear your opinions. and does anyone know the aproximate price they charge and the general weight? it could even work double as a sound dampner, for me being someone who plans on getting a quality sound system.

 

Rhino liner is thick it almost looks like the texture on a wall so im not to sure that you should expect it to come out shiny, you would be better off painting it all, if you had it done the right way (compressor, gravity feed gun, and even the cheapest auto sealer, paint and clear -Omni- not only will you fix it you may be able to make your car look better then it did stock if you do it the right way?

 

I thought about doing it on the inside of my car, but decided against it because I would have to protect all the screw holes from being clogged.

 

I'm gonna rhino line my Samurai inside and out, but a CRX, I just don't think so. It would probally add allot of weight.

 

rino lining looks just like every other truck bed liner but it is a good sound dmpener you can buy the roll on kind made by duplicoler at wallmart

 

The duplicolor stuff is crap get herculiner from jegs. it is a roll on also.

 

i agree that it will probably add a lot of weight. so consider that down the track.

buy just by chance i happen to have a full interrior, in pretty good shape, from an 88crx hf. it will fit no problem in your car. how much do you need? i literally have nothing left in my car, so i will sell ya anything for a really good price. pm me if you want

 

It can only weigh as much as the can! 10lbs or a little more.

 

haha, ya. i never felt a can of the DIY stuff. how many cans do you think it would take?

 

A gallon weighs about 8.5 pounds, you think you can get a whole car painted (crx) with about 3 quarts, so i would say it would only weigh about 7 pounds?

 

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It's probably less than that as the weight of that material when you weighed it is the "wet" weight. Kinda like a wet sponge weighs more than a dry one.

Either way, 7 pounds is negligible on the track, if it was that big of a deal you could go on a diet.

 

I did the rhinoliner about a year back on my 90 hatch. The stuff is really hard to work with but ends up looking pretty good if you take your time with it. Just dont get stuff with a gloss finish...that stuff looks like poo. As for the weight, it doesnt weigh all that much as people might expect. I say go for it.
One more thing...clean everything thoroughly and prep the hell out of the surface first. Trust me on this...you'll thank me later.

 

i did this a while back, but i used the stuff in the can. it came out very good in my opinion and is very durable. it looked real good but my interior is back in so i dont really see it anymore. there was also a noticable drop in road noise also.

 

I am also thinking of something to do with the empty hatch area. I know the lining will cut down on the noise and it will make it look alot better.

 

i think im going to look further into this idea, does anyone know how this will affect screw holes or anything along those lines, if i were to put this in is it possible to put the rear peices back in at a later date or will it mess things up?

 

If it's applied at 1/8" thick...it will add approximately 1 lb/sq. ft.

 

I would like to see a picture of what this acutally looks like. I really cant see anyone driving a car that looks like an entire bed of a truck

 

If anything it just sound like your getting a little cheap on your car and trying to save some money

 

it dosent have to be ruff ask for smooth

 

Yeah, sounds like a great way to make the car HEAVY... It would be convenient though, just hosing out the interior whenever it got dirty.. I'd only consider this if you were trying to kill sound like in an SPL car...

 

Why does everyone keep thinking this stuff is heavy. It only adds like maybe 10 lbs to the car, whoopty do.

 

People with painted black interiors.... how hot does your car get in the middle of summer?

 

i have done the same thing gut the interior, but thats not a bad idea, rhino lining.. i was thinking covering everything w/ carpet, but you could get rhino lining to serve more of a purpose than carpet would try it and let me know

 

im more and more convinced about this stuff if you were to just spray all the metal in the car after it was gutted for sound purposes i would say do it, but if you are going to spray all your interior like your dash, concole, door panels etc. that would be a thumbs down

 

I think that is what people mean. I would not cover everything in it. Just the metal.