I bought a '90 Lx last year. I drive it a good bit back and forth to work. I am thinking of parking and redoing the interior. I have the light blue interior in my car. I was thinking of doing a black interior. Saw the 5.0 Resto paint kit and thought about giving it a try. Has anyone else used this paint and had any good luck with it? Try to find interior panels out of another car but have had no luck. Any ideas will be appreciated?
'90 Lx Interior
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Depending on your ability, and patience during the prepping and painting, it will either come out looking great and hold up for years, or look like crud and flake away.
Black tends to be the hardest to paint, due to most paints being glossy and showing imperfections. I've seen painted grey interiors that look great, so i think that color is easy to do. However, most if not all painted black interiors look like crud if you ask me. Once in a while you get a good one, but most seem rushed, overly glossy, and not done well at all
Black tends to be the hardest to paint, due to most paints being glossy and showing imperfections. I've seen painted grey interiors that look great, so i think that color is easy to do. However, most if not all painted black interiors look like crud if you ask me. Once in a while you get a good one, but most seem rushed, overly glossy, and not done well at all
The way I'm converting mine to black - is trying to find 'most' of the parts as stock pieces - buying a new blk headliner / sun visors new or used / new seat covers ( I would have a professional install them - but that's a limit of my ability) - blk carpet new - I found mint blk door panels ( not easy - took months ) - and I yanked out my dash - but found a black pad and vents used / nice - so if your only painting the dash plastic / the center console ( I used a blk delete for the armrest $24 ) - front kick panels - the floor trim piece's - and qtr rear window pieces + rear lid panel (find some carpet new for the back + the thrid tail light if you have a coupe - I think with enough Prep - and the right painting materials - it will turn out pretty nice - there are some guys here who have completed some nice black interior switches - but Mike above hit the nail on the head.... IT'S all in the Prep / painting and patience ...the three P's
91TwighlightGT
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Seat covers are actually not that hard if you have patience. The hog rings make the job a pain, but otherwise it is pretty simple. It seems to me that a lot of people get scared by this type of work, but if you can rebuild an engine or even just swap simple mechanical parts, you can do interior work.
Now, if you are custom sewing or building yours from the ground up, that is a different story.
Now, if you are custom sewing or building yours from the ground up, that is a different story.
I was thinking of buying the black carpet, headliner, door panels, sun visor and rear deck lid. I am going to buy aftermarket seats and do a rear seat delete kit. Thought of putting the black seats with my blue interior but I don't like my blue door panels. Should I not mess with the interior and keep it stock as I can? Don't want the value of my car to take a plung? Thought of buying a roller and building it the way I want it. Point me in the right direction.
91TwighlightGT
Dirt-Old 20+Year Member
Well, I can't tell you what you should do with your interior. You need to decide what your goals are for the car. If it is a street car, then I would not do a rear seat delete if you are worried about retaining value. Also, if it is your daily driver then you may need to carry more than two people at times. Aftermarket front seats can certainly be better and more comfortable than stock. I don't know if it "adds" value, but I don't think it would hurt it if they were nice seats. I see no issue in changing colors, as that would add value since blue is not popular, but it will be likely expensive to track down all the pieces for a black interior.
I've often said this before...
"A clean, mint red interior looks better than a tattered, or poorly painted black interior any day"
And it's true.
A little work in your blue interior and you might not even want a black interior. Maybe a new blue carpet, slightly darker, with black floormats, black leather SN95 seats, black headliner and replace any worn blue plastic with the best condition plastics you can find and it might look good.
TMIproducts
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Also just a quick thought on the headliner - if you are looking to save a few bucks you can always just purchase the foam backed cloth material and recover your original, if your board is still in good enough shape.
I don't mind the blue carpet. I really don't like the blue doors. Would I be better off painting the blue plastic gray and going with the black carpet and headliner and gray door panels? Would that look ok with the dark blue outside paint?
I'm doing something similar. Blue exterior and gray/black interior. I think it will all look excellent
94stangfan
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I did this as well with my gray interior... I think it is coming out pretty well. I painted my door panels, dash, and console in my 86, but if I were you, I would find the actual black parts to put in your car. They are pretty much readily available around. I have seen several on Craigs list (for the 87+ interior). I would get as many pieces I could if I were you for the plastics that are originally black.
As the others have said, it is all about the prep work. make sure it is clean.
As the others have said, it is all about the prep work. make sure it is clean.
