Alcantara or Leather ???
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Has anyone used a combination of the two or even gone mad and completly retrimed their car with Alcantara?
If so, Whos got some pictures to post, I got it in the daily driver and prefer it now to leather (probable still a novelty)and was woundering if i should get a few select bits like top of the dash and part of the centre console (arm resty bit) recovered.
If so, Whos got some pictures to post, I got it in the daily driver and prefer it now to leather (probable still a novelty)and was woundering if i should get a few select bits like top of the dash and part of the centre console (arm resty bit) recovered.
I'm doing my tuscan now with :
alcantara - dash,door cards, rear door card things, rear speaker panel, roof
leather- seats and console re trim
existing vinyl on roll cage and door bottoms.
new carpets
would love to trim the whole lot in alcantara but for seats it wears too quick imo and i also don't have a blank cheque
should look awesome, did the dash today and even though half the car is in bits it looks great.
alcantara - dash,door cards, rear door card things, rear speaker panel, roof
leather- seats and console re trim
existing vinyl on roll cage and door bottoms.
new carpets
would love to trim the whole lot in alcantara but for seats it wears too quick imo and i also don't have a blank cheque
should look awesome, did the dash today and even though half the car is in bits it looks great.
Please get me some pictures as soon as possible, I would love to see what that looks like.
And I dont think its too bad on our daily its done 95k now and altho showing signs of wear its held up remarkably well but totally with you on the open cheque book, that would be very nice, I'm ment to be finishing the garden off and getting the camper going but im playing with the TVR as its a now toy .....Sorry wife :@~
And I dont think its too bad on our daily its done 95k now and altho showing signs of wear its held up remarkably well but totally with you on the open cheque book, that would be very nice, I'm ment to be finishing the garden off and getting the camper going but im playing with the TVR as its a now toy .....Sorry wife :@~
Those interiors look awesome, i've always loved alcantara!
Heres some pics of what i'm doing
http://www.pistonheads.com/xforums/topic.asp?h=0&a... 1 of winter project list
Heres some pics of what i'm doing
http://www.pistonheads.com/xforums/topic.asp?h=0&a... 1 of winter project list
ewan221 said:
That looks really good, was not convinced at all until yours.
Did you do the dash yourself ? Mines looking a bit tatty and not sure about the leven ones.
No I got the dash done for £60.00 everything else I did with macdeb was pretty easy and made it look so so so much better IMHO.Did you do the dash yourself ? Mines looking a bit tatty and not sure about the leven ones.
Macdeb are you planning on having any other parts of the dash done? just having the top bit looks abit odd, especially with the bit by the windscreen sameish colour but in vinyl? all IMO ofcorse,
though I was just about to order a couple of hides of Leather now Im not sure!!! thanks a bunch!
though I was just about to order a couple of hides of Leather now Im not sure!!! thanks a bunch!
Not a fan of the stuff myself having done the car out in it some time back. It scuffed really badly at any points of wear, it absorbed road dirt and was difficult to keep clean (it was a light colour however), and as you can see by the photos it "flocks" in the direction of any finger marks. Silly money as well. I personally think there are much better harder wearing materials out there, its just a case of getting down to your local car uphosterer to have a look.
JonyTVR said:
Macdeb are you planning on having any other parts of the dash done? just having the top bit looks abit odd, especially with the bit by the windscreen sameish colour but in vinyl? all IMO ofcorse,
though I was just about to order a couple of hides of Leather now Im not sure!!! thanks a bunch!
Cool though I was just about to order a couple of hides of Leather now Im not sure!!! thanks a bunch!
I left the piece below the windscreen viynl so it matches the door tops where they meet so it sort of 'flows' around the car if you see what I mean and there's a contrast between the two. [we did the same with neals car] I did the door cards also to match the side bolsters. In fact it was the door cards that were done first as I've never liked carpet up the doors, I used a 10mm foam underneath it on them so it's slightly padded. Also did the bit in middle of steering wheel to lose the ugly black metal. I like the way it 'flocks' when touched and have no wear issues to date. In fact our daily driver [Alfa] has it and it still looks as good as when we first had it, and we've had the car from new [53 plate]. Depends on how you treat your cars interior I suppose.Edited by macdeb on Friday 25th November 13:17
Edited by macdeb on Friday 25th November 13:20
Edited by macdeb on Friday 25th November 13:25
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