My Black leather interior swap (Updated 7/10/11)

AccordFlex

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So when I was at the Honda junkyard picking up my new motor, I saw a 2002 V6 coupe sitting there with a full black leather interior so of course I couldnt pass that up... especially for $400

Included leather seats all around, quarterpanel trim, new carpet, black dash, A pillars, B pillars etc, basically everything I needed minus sunvisors and interior door moldings.

I decided to spray the A pillars, B pillars, and the lower rocker molding door sil trim. I went with a textured black paint with specs of pearl in it. Also painted the stock tweeter covers since I dont use them anyways. Swap isnt quite done, but its getting there. Still need to take car of the headliner which im doing in urban digital camo and the air bag covers and clear the painted trim pieces and a few other odds and ends. Heres some pics so far...

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Finished up my first piece of rewrapped interior along with the switch plate painted and clear coated. Doing the leather door inserts, headliner, and center console arm rest... material is a checkered leather vinyl and suede.

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Wrapped the back pieces with hot glue to hold each of the portioned chunks down. Then we sealed everything down with a liquid epoxy then smoothed on a layer of polyurethane to harden the fabric to the headliner to ensure a nice tight bond. The headliner itself was sprayed down with 3M 90 Adhesive which is their strongest formula done in 1'x1' sections because of the very quick tackying qualities it has.

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Sun shades were sealed shut so that the paint doesnt wear down, plus i dont use them much anyways.

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Re: My Black leather interior swap

Thanks everyone!

I dont think I will ever replace a dash ever again. Had to take out the wiring harness for the 02 v6 and swap over mine alone with the vin plate. The dash alone has about 3 days of work into it.
 

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Re: My Black leather interior swap

you painted the dash? if yes can someone plz clear this up bcuz i hear that its like illegal to do that ....idk if who ever told me this might be missing the point, that its if you tamper with the vin number on the dash when you get in trouble or just painting it period idk ...but i have a friend who painted over the vin like an idiot and they took his car away and i have a different friend who said he got a ticket for painting it but he didnt paint over the vin......just want to know whats what thanks

EDIT- just read that you switched over. fail on my part but still would like to know if anyone can give me the right info
 
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you painted the dash? if yes can someone plz clear this up bcuz i hear that its like illegal to do that ....idk if who ever told me this might be missing the point, that its if you tamper with the vin number on the dash when you get in trouble or just painting it period idk ...but i have a friend who painted over the vin like an idiot and they took his car away and i have a different friend who said he got a ticket for painting it but he didnt paint over the vin......just want to know whats what thanks

EDIT- just read that you switched over. fail on my part but still would like to know if anyone can give me the right info

Yea the vin from my old dash was cut out and swapped over to the new black dash. No paint on the dash, minus my future plans to do the passenger side airbag cover.
 

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Re: My Black leather interior swap

Scored!!!!! i wanna do that soooo bad! looks good, did you DIY???
 
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