Shark carpets. Cleaning - replacing?
03-05-2003, 08:39 PM
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I replaced my carpets...
Well, I looked at them and the name that came to mind was "champagne". I grew up in a pastel house, and my mom painted everything pastel "champagne". The color even reminded me of bubbly I drank at the last Polish wedding that I attended.
[Amazing that I remember anything at all from that night!]
Anyway, I have basically renovated my interior from top to bottom. I ordered champagne carpets first...
YEAH...and champagne arrived. Great. There was only one problem: my interior was not champagne but actually grey beige.
I almost sent it back, but it really did look a little better and I wanted to get started anyway. If I had to do it again, I would have sent it back- and asked for black [more on that later].
Well, the carpet I received was decent looking automotive carpet. Not in the same league as home carpet, but good nonetheless. The carpet kit was cut in a very general shape for each individual piece. I did the replacement over a period of two months, pulling an individual piece and finding the matching part from the kit, then trimming the new stuff to match the old...3M spray and some rubber cement later and I'm in business. As I say, I took my time and did the job right.
For the leather, I found a guy here in town recommended by guys from PCA, and paid him $1000 to re-tan all the leather to match the champagne carpet. For the seats, I selected black leather from Allan Gunn Leather and paid the same guy $300 to reupholster the front seats and re-tan the rear seats to match. Some black floor mats, and I'm done. Total cost: $3100.
My recent experiments involve a red 5 point racing harness for the fronts and red gauge faces from Speedhut. Both are going: I don't intend to race, and the red gauge faces are horrid, except at night when they take on the same color as the interior. I'm converting them to red reverse indiglo, and putting the harnesses on Ebay.
Anyway, here it is:
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Well, I looked at them and the name that came to mind was "champagne". I grew up in a pastel house, and my mom painted everything pastel "champagne". The color even reminded me of bubbly I drank at the last Polish wedding that I attended.
[Amazing that I remember anything at all from that night!]
Anyway, I have basically renovated my interior from top to bottom. I ordered champagne carpets first...
YEAH...and champagne arrived. Great. There was only one problem: my interior was not champagne but actually grey beige.
I almost sent it back, but it really did look a little better and I wanted to get started anyway. If I had to do it again, I would have sent it back- and asked for black [more on that later].
Well, the carpet I received was decent looking automotive carpet. Not in the same league as home carpet, but good nonetheless. The carpet kit was cut in a very general shape for each individual piece. I did the replacement over a period of two months, pulling an individual piece and finding the matching part from the kit, then trimming the new stuff to match the old...3M spray and some rubber cement later and I'm in business. As I say, I took my time and did the job right.
For the leather, I found a guy here in town recommended by guys from PCA, and paid him $1000 to re-tan all the leather to match the champagne carpet. For the seats, I selected black leather from Allan Gunn Leather and paid the same guy $300 to reupholster the front seats and re-tan the rear seats to match. Some black floor mats, and I'm done. Total cost: $3100.
My recent experiments involve a red 5 point racing harness for the fronts and red gauge faces from Speedhut. Both are going: I don't intend to race, and the red gauge faces are horrid, except at night when they take on the same color as the interior. I'm converting them to red reverse indiglo, and putting the harnesses on Ebay.
Anyway, here it is:
N!
03-07-2003, 09:14 AM
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Most of my carpet is still in really good shape. One of the PO's had enough forethought to install heavy duty carpet mats front and rear over the original carpet. The only piece I need to replace is the big piece laying in the hatch. It has been sun faded something terrible. Can you buy just that piece already trimmed and vinyl edged and from whom? I need "cork" silverknit.
03-07-2003, 10:19 AM
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I have seen a friend use regular fabric dye. He mixed it really strong with hot water in a bucket and applied it with a spongue to the carpets. It looked good, at least initially. No personal experience though.