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Offline Khare

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Removing and dying the head lining
« on: 17 April 2010, 19:38 »
As title, how do you remove the head lining, and how to do you change the colour? Wanting to do it in black  :cool:

Offline JC

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Re: Removing and dying the head lining
« Reply #1 on: 17 April 2010, 19:41 »
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Re: Removing and dying the head lining
« Reply #2 on: 17 April 2010, 20:00 »
take off sunvisors and all the grab handles mate, remove sunroof motor etc

pretty easy mate, had mine off to chang ehte sunroof once when i had manflu

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Re: Removing and dying the head lining
« Reply #3 on: 17 April 2010, 20:01 »
Will need to be recovered to change the colour.

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Re: Removing and dying the head lining
« Reply #4 on: 17 April 2010, 20:09 »
Re-cover it dude

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Re: Removing and dying the head lining
« Reply #5 on: 17 April 2010, 20:17 »
looks champion that joe

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Re: Removing and dying the head lining
« Reply #6 on: 17 April 2010, 20:22 »
Cheers dude - it's not perfect but it was my first attempt, and I had to do it in a cramped living room lol
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Re: Removing and dying the head lining
« Reply #7 on: 17 April 2010, 20:47 »
ah right, well I'll do that then. What material did you use to recover it?

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Re: Removing and dying the head lining
« Reply #8 on: 17 April 2010, 20:51 »
black suede :cool:
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Re: Removing and dying the head lining
« Reply #9 on: 17 April 2010, 21:26 »
fabric paint for mine...........lol  :laugh:

if its got pistons or tits, either way its gonna be expensive