Carpet Dye

[ewan221]

Has anyone re-dyed the carpets ? where did you get the dye and how did it look after a few months ?

[blaze_away]

Depends on the material, if the carpets are made of a synthetic material (like for exampe polypropylene) they will not take a dye.

Wool is another mater and that will accept a dye.

[sheel]

You may all fall over laughing but................many years ago in my Cortina 1600E owning days when beer was cheap and be..ver even cheaper, my carpets had faded from black to a stey brown colour, I hoovered them down and sprayed them with matt black paint, they went very crispy on the pile when dry, but with a swift brush off they were bloody brill, it never came off, just wondered if you could do it with any other colour?????

Richard

[ewan221]

Found a company that say they can supply the correct dye so may give it a go. My worry is though that it gives me blue legs every time I drive

[potato muncher]

ewan221 said:

Found a company that say they can supply the correct dye so may give it a go. My worry is though that it gives me blue legs every time I drive

Please let us know how you get on, most of my carpets are ok and I used a dye that looked good but if you run your hand over them or leave anything on them it ends up blue.
Must be something out there though to do the job.

[estutjaweh]

I used VHT dye for a few interior components and as long as the prep work was thorough, the results were excellent!
So...after the shell was repainted it became clear the carpet colour no longer fitted. The 80/20 wool carpet was fitted just 2 years earlier from the previous owner and was in perfect nic', so I thought "why not try to dye it". Well, what a headache. I ended up ripping all the carpet out anyway to buy new in the end. The carpet was just so new that it fluffed up everywhere when I tried to brush in the dye (if you dont brush it, it just dyes the top layer looking rather sh*tty if the pile moves).

I think it could work but be prepared for it to look obscene if you haven't got the time, energy and money for the amount of dye required to get a deep colour transplant.

[SSPPGG]

someone in my cars history dyed the floor carpet on the drivers aside.......everytime it gets damp (rain, leak etc) i get green water .

I ended up rinsing the mats, and loads of colour came off.

maybe it was the application, but I wouldnt bother, a new carpet set isnt that expensive, and to dye them properly you will need to strip the car anyway.

[blaze_away]

SSPPGG said:

someone in my cars history dyed the floor carpet on the drivers aside.......everytime it gets damp (rain, leak etc) i get green water .

I ended up rinsing the mats, and loads of colour came off.

maybe it was the application, but I wouldnt bother, a new carpet set isnt that expensive, and to dye them properly you will need to strip the car anyway.

You probably have the problem I was eluding too before, synthetic polymer based fibres (eg Nylon, Polypropylene etc) won't take a dye, they might look like they have but infact all the dye has done is sit on the surface of the fibres. Then when it rains the dye washes off.