if it's the duplicolor stuff, they have how to videos on their website. never used it myself.

 

hey thanks a lot man. Cool site. Didnt know they had how-to's on their page. very cool.

 

you are very welcome.

I have used the wheel paint before. I am actually doing it now, refinishing my aero wheels since the paint is flaking off.

 

also found some how-to's on YouTube. Wow. This will be a lot easier than I thought. This video/link has me wondering if I should just go for it and paint my seats too. Been looking for black 9-3 seats, and this ust seems so much easier and cost effective. Though, im willing to accept a 'decent' look to the door cards, I dunno how much Im willing to trust this stuff with painting all my seats! I would love to see one in person after being painted, just to know...

I went ahead and ordered two cans of flat black to do the door cards in - we'll see how those turn out, and then maybe give the seats a try if it turns out nice.

 

Keep us posted.

I would like grey cards in my 9-3.

 

will do palmer, but only cause you make me laugh..

you have a pm by the way.

 

I have a set of black felt inserts from my red car interior that I can part with. The inserts are fine, PM if you are interested.

I was going to use the whole door panels in my new car but I found '00 9-3 full leather door panels at the u-pull for a total of $50 for all four so I snagged those instead.

 

well, i figure coreyoroc was going to swap with palmer.

I have good gray ones too if anyone wants to swap.

 

Dude, that fabric paint from a rattle can...no thank you!

Seriously, it will turn the stuff a different color, but its going to look like a janky-ass job for sure. I would never ruin a set of door cards (and definatly not seats) with that shit.

 

Yeah that spray stuff is awful. Seriously. I used it on my c900 years ago and it's terrible.

Either recover your door cards with some nice fabric, or purchase a brush-on fabric dye. *make sure the fabric dye works on synthetics, many don't*

 

I did this to my 900 before I swapped out the entire interior for a black car.

It look pretty good. People who saw it in person commented it was nice. The fabric became all cruncy, not solft anymore. It covers well, but changes the properties of the fabric.

I pulled off a door card once as well, but never tried to put it back on (spare one). I thought at the time that I'd never get it back on "just right". Painting was easy as I just masked it all off, and any overspray is easily taken care of with a magic eraser.

Here's a few pics:

The original thread where I put them is here:
http://www.saablink.net/forum/showthread.php?t=9578
But the images no longer work from cardomain. I rehosted the two above so you could see. The second image is of the tweater, but I thought might be a little more close up for the fabric.

One more thing, they were now felt magnets! Now that they were black, lint and stuff showed up more easily, and I think the texture (crunchy) helped it to gather more lint and crap.

Tboy

 

Its that crunchy feel that tBoy describes that just sucks in my opinion. Like I said, you can make it look nice in a photo, but in my opinion you're ruining the fabric.

Real dye is the way to go.

 

wow. thats helpful. thanks a ton for putting up those pics.
I was getting kinda worried with this whole spray can thing. Ive never had any good outcome from anything out of a spray can.

Im definitely not going to do the whole interior with it for sure then.

I might be ok with it just on the door cards - you know, the whole crunchy thing - but not on my seats.. Actually, I think I'll just dye them. I dont want to ruin the fabric. Thanks for the tip on that by the way. I didnt think i could use the same dye that I did on the floormats.
May just have found a whole set of black cards now, thanks to this forum. Awesome. Will keep you guys updated on this project.

 

Ok guys, thanks to this forum, I found full set of black door cards. Awesome.

Im really glad I asked you guys about the fabric paint - couldve made a big mistake there...

I would love to have a set of black leather seats from another 900 or 9-3 - but may just have to settle with the tan cloth. We dont have any sort of u-pull's around here with anything European in it. So aside from driving across country to pick some used ones up, I may have to go the custom route for the seats. Though, I think I'd rather spend that kind of money on a Koni kit than black seats.