How much work or $$ am I lookin at if I swapped out the interior( Seats, carpet, panels) for another color? Any advice or knowledge would be appreciated. I am looking into buying a MC and from what I've seen, I would like TAN interior. prefer leather seats. SO I am curious if I purchased a MC and it had another color, what kind of work or money am I lookin at?
Curious about Interior swap
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My interior was light gray with 60/40 seats when I bought it and later I swapped in a tan and brown interior from my Regal prior to selling it, but the brown was the carpet color and the seats had brown trimming and I felt the brown did not go with the black car.
So I searched until I found some buckets that I liked and ended up with Cerullo camel color seats and when I ordered them I added a few extra yards of material to my order so I would have enough for the extras.
I made brackets for the seats and mounted them to GM power units for drivers and passenger. I sent my back seat and visors to a local upholstery shop and had them recover them with my material.
I used the rest of the material to make my upper door panels front and rear and also for my headliner which uses stretched and glued material since it has a power sunroof.
All the plastic and vinyl pieces I refinished with SEM camel color paint and did the dash and center console in SEM Landau black.
I did mine quite awhile ago so the cost would be significantly higher now but other than the re-upholstery work I did everything myself.
My best advice would be pick your seats first and make everything match them since there can be varying shades of the same color and differences between manufacturers even though they list the same color and if possible even try to get your interior paint from the same batch.
So I searched until I found some buckets that I liked and ended up with Cerullo camel color seats and when I ordered them I added a few extra yards of material to my order so I would have enough for the extras.
I made brackets for the seats and mounted them to GM power units for drivers and passenger. I sent my back seat and visors to a local upholstery shop and had them recover them with my material.
I used the rest of the material to make my upper door panels front and rear and also for my headliner which uses stretched and glued material since it has a power sunroof.
All the plastic and vinyl pieces I refinished with SEM camel color paint and did the dash and center console in SEM Landau black.
I did mine quite awhile ago so the cost would be significantly higher now but other than the re-upholstery work I did everything myself.
My best advice would be pick your seats first and make everything match them since there can be varying shades of the same color and differences between manufacturers even though they list the same color and if possible even try to get your interior paint from the same batch.
I am doing an interior swap. A whole complete interior swap. Changed the whole interior from that stock blue grey color to a burgundy or more like wine color. I bought new headliner carpet and front seats just that ran me a couple dollars past $1000. Everything else came from a donor car which were the panels, seat belts, rear seats, and misc parts which I had to pay for too. In the end it is worth it. Don't bother looking for used front seats its not worth it. IMO when you can get new off the shelf aftermarket seats for $400ea from procar and there a direct fit.
Cool, thanks for the info. and advice. I will consider everything you have said for the future. Thank you.
Any pics or footage of the process? I am always interested in watching or looking. Easier to learn 😉
Yes in fact I do I have a build thread called theoldsone daily build. Here is the link. If it doesn't work you can search it up on build threads section.
https://gbodyforum.com/threads/theoldsone-daily-build.54511/
https://gbodyforum.com/threads/theoldsone-daily-build.54511/
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