Wanted to paint my 95 integra Gsr's floor mats cause I just didn't like the grayish color and also is was kinda faded.

Decided to make this "How To:" after I was halfway through

1. Pull mats out of car and give them a good wash.
I used "Woolite Dark Laundry" for the washing process.
(Note: This works good if you don't want to repaint, will darken the mats)
Pour Woolite into bucket, add water and go to town!



2. I used Dupi-color Vynil and Fabric paint. (Flat Black - 4.06ea) You might be able to do it with one can but I bought 2 and used a little of the second can.



3. After scrubing the crap out of the mats you need to dry them, I hand dried them using towels.

4. Now your ready to paint. Spray can about 6-10inches away from the mat. I went along the lines of the mat. I used about 2 coats, waited about 10-15 mins in between each coat. Only took me about an hour to do.

Looks good to!



Let me know if I left anything out, which I bet I did.
Ill take some picture of them in the car later!

-Corey


Modified by Spoon07 at 11:30 PM 1/8/2007

 

lol nice

 

hey looks pretty good.
personally I wouldn't want to paint anything cloth.

but that looks ok,
only problem is that your pics kinda suck, they're blurry.

Can't really judge if it actually came out good or not..

But looks good from a distance for sure!
nice and black!

 

haha! it looks pretty good up close, still kinda shows some of the white/gray spots so makes it look good, but hey all you got is my word! lol

 

nice turn out. does it smear at all, i've never heard about spray for cloth.

 

hey...i did that!!1
but it fades once u go in and out a couple of times

 

nice job...looks good from the pics

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Tad &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">hey looks pretty good.
personally I wouldn't want to paint anything cloth.

but that looks ok,
only problem is that your pics kinda suck, they're blurry.

Can't really judge if it actually came out good or not..

But looks good from a distance for sure!
nice and black!</TD></TR></TABLE>


im not 100% positive but i think its more of a dye then a paint. So it gets absorbed by the fabric and changes color that way rather then covering over it.

 

It does dry pretty quick.

Even if it does start to fade alittle it will still be better than they were and I could always redo them, didnt take long.

Ill have a follow up in about a month or so and let you know how long they last and the condition.

 

wow i never thought about washing my floor matts in laundry thing or whatever.. imma try that...

 

I didnt throw it in the washer or dryer or nothing. lol if thats what you ment. all by hand! but it might work in the washer, might be loud but might work! do it!

 

i was thinking of doing that, looks really good

 

looks great, i'll have to do mine now. Will the carpets bleed if they get wet?

 

I'd be wary with the paint... here's the how to I wrote on dying mats...

Every year or 2 I take my floor mats down to the laundromat and wash/ dye them back to new.

Materials:
Quarters
1 Bottle of black Rit dye
A small loads worth of liquid laundry detergent

Before:




After:


Instructions:
1. Remove mats from car (obviously lol)
2. Vaccum mats
3. Go to laundromat (preferably somewhere you don't frequent because of the dye)
4. Place mats in washer, w/ a normal loads worth of detergent.
5. Set washer to hot water, and once it starts filling, add the dye
6. After wash, then dry on hot
7. Remove them from dryer right away so they aren't deformed
8. Lay them flat and enjoy clean mats!

 

Very Nice Diy..only if i had floormats

 

looks good

 

HELL YEAH! that stuff rules... i did my whole rear interior of my crx and now it looks MINT. people always ask me how i keep it so clean... plus ive used this on my old crx's carpet and again it made it look BRAND NEW. only thing is it has a harder texture when it dries....regardless AWESOME STUFFF!

 

up

 

interesting

 

tell us how it holds up

 

haha, they will look like **** by the end of the week. I did the same thing and it looked good at first, but it doesn't work at all. Sorry.

 

good thing mine are mint

 

 

it seems to work pretty well

 

if that crap got on my sneakers i'd kill someone