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Viny dye - How durable?? - 11/6/2007 9:09:38 PM

109jb

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One of my projects for this winter is the upholstery in my 1970 fastback. I am going to get new reproduction upholstery, but I don't want any of the stock colors. I am going with Mach I style seats and I want to go with either all gray seats or black side bolsters with gray inserts. Leaning to all gray. Since gray is not a standard color option I was thinking about buying white upholstery and using vinyl dye to get the color I want. I assume that if it is "dye" it would soak into the vinyl at least a little. That leads me to my questions. How durable is vinyl dye?? How deep does the color go?? How long can I expect it to last in a weekend driver?

Thanks in advance,

John B.

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RE: Viny dye - How durable?? - 11/6/2007 10:41:14 PM

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I used vinyl dye on a hump-hugger console (brown to black).

Surprisingly it chipped very easily. I think I used the Krylon brand, I'm not sure if there's better ones out there...

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RE: Viny dye - How durable?? - 11/7/2007 12:16:33 AM

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I used duplicolor's vinyl and fabic high prefromance on my trucks seats 4 years ago still looks great.Only tips i can give you is the cleaner the part is before you dye it the better it sticks.

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RE: Viny dye - How durable?? - 11/7/2007 5:54:30 AM

109jb

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Andrewmp6, How is it holding up on the seats? You know right where you slide into your truck.

One thing I forgot to mention before was that I'm thinking of doing this as a few year interim measure (Hopefully). I would like to eventually either put late model leather seats in, or have the ones I have professionally covered in leather later on. Since I can't seem to be able to find any supplier that sells just the rear seat upholstery, I'm going to have to buy a whole set anyway and figured I could get by a few years by dying the front seat covers. I will leave the rear seat covers just dyed vinyl because it won't get much use anyway. I guess I could always touch up spots that wear if I wind up keeping them longer.

Thanks

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RE: Viny dye - How durable?? - 11/7/2007 6:01:18 AM

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Still nice and black i do clean them alot and armor all them. I do have 2 small cracks in the vinyl but the dye hasnt came off.I did put about 5 or 6 coats on them they where a ugly tan with stains and went to black.

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RE: Viny dye - How durable?? - 11/7/2007 3:01:15 PM

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amp6
The instructions for vinyl dyes I have read talk about cleaning the surface with a particular comercial prep, then spraying the vinyl. Is that pretty much what you did? It sounds like your results are tip-top.

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RE: Viny dye - How durable?? - 11/7/2007 3:18:14 PM

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I sprayed my truck seat about 6 years ago. It was Red and I sprayed it black. It was a daily driver for 5 years. Seat still looks good. Can't see any red under there. I just cleaned it really got with a scrub brush and Mean Grean degreaser.

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