Once I got the car running the first time. I started working on the interior of the car. I went ahead and pulled everything out of the car except for the dash. The door locks didn't work, so I replaced the door actuators and the truck release actuator. This kinda got everything working. Someone at some point had the great idea to shave the door locks off and the truck lock off... A really crappy aftermarket alarm had been installed that worked as a key-less entry. All the relays had gone bad. After a lot of wire chasing I got it back to stock configuration and the doors and trunk lock as normal. Dont lock the doors and get out though. You cant get back in. I've got to reinstall a key-less entry at some point down the road.
The inside of the car was just gross. I ended up washing and de-greasing everything. It makes it easy when everything is out of the car and you dont have to worry about getting something wet. I ordered all new door gaskets and seal, truck seals, sunroof seals, carpet, armrest pads, center console pad, trunk carpet, rear seat carpet, door handle cups, window belting, and tons of other little things here and there. I also had a new headliner made.
All the plastic was washed, and degreased. I pulled everything out of the car. The black stuff was painted back SEM trim black. Everything else was painted SEM Ladera (kinda gray). The car was titanium, but it looked terrible and I just liked this color.
I washed the factory carpet pad multiple times as it was much thicker than the one on the back of the replacement carpet. When I installed the new carpet I put the old pad down first. Then slowly reinstalled all the plastic bits and the rest of the interior. I'll post some pics later.
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Put the interior together and order it anyway. We all (the 7 of us watching) know that you'll have to take it apart AGAIN for something soon, so you'll have a chance to install the antenna without making a special trip. So to speak.
I vote to take the side pieces off the handle and do them in wood. I'm sure the tools to do it are laying around. You could even put a little tornado on them with a soldering iron. I think it would bring out the feel of the car.
Then again.... there's no other wood in the car. It would cause you to redo a bunch of stuff to add a wood element that compliments the leather touches. The Monster interior would never get done....so...never mind.
Yeah Mike, show us some wood.......
Nib's are little pieces of foreign matter that get into the paint while it's wet. Typically can be sanded out in the cut and buff stage.
Unless he means " New in Box", which is what nib always meant to me.?
Id imagine that sanding and buffing will change the status of that "nib" in a hurry too.
Q. What would it take to make inserts that mimic the look of the spokes, and (if you can resist) have no writing on them? Maybe black with a metallic center section between the screw heads?
A. For you, just about nothing.
And...in trying to make sure that we keep the the 10-12 that make up this thread involved,........
I like the wood idea..there is enough brown in the interior that walnut ,or rosewood, or any of a dozen other exotic woods could be used in the handles. Had I bought a B&M shifter, I coulda bought already done rosewood side plates,.but they'd have B&M engraved into the wood.
I also like duplicating the steering wheel spoke design, and in the end, that may be what I do, but there's just too much to do worry about the side handles,...( especially if I can just wet sand that silkscreen junk off of the existing side plates).
I'm gonna focus on going forward..if I keep moving sideways,..ill start turning into a hermit crab.