Centre consoles......more questions sorry...

[silverback mike]

What is the norm for these consoles? Mine is sprayed silver like the outside of the car and frankly looks hideous.
Are they usually trimmed in carpet/leather or some other substance. :yikes:

I am tempted to spray it black though.

[Wildfire]

Leather IIRC

[DODDZE]

let me know if you need a different angled shot..

[ceejay73]

Mine is trimmed in the same immitation leather stuff as the dash and door cards.

[silverback mike]

Thanks folks, looks like leather is the way ahead.
Doddze, same interior colourscheme as mine. Ish..

[ceejay73]

I was gonna stick on a piccy too but dont know how on here .. Anyone wanna mail me an idiots guide please?

[bugsy]

silverback mike said:

What is the norm for these consoles? Mine is sprayed silver like the outside of the car and frankly looks hideous. Are they usually trimmed in carpet/leather or some other substance. I am tempted to spray it black though.

Wildfire will take great exception to your comments about his dash covers, you do realise that underneath that metal is the original dash do you?

[silverback mike]

I don't mean the smaller bit, the whole centre console on mine is a very roughly sprayed bit of fibreglass that looks terrible. Even the gear gater wasn't secured to it. Simon did say it was on his list to do.
It looks as if someone took the leather off and sprayed it (badly).

[silverback mike]

I will take a phot...

[silverback mike]

See what I mean, bit rough isn't it.

[flinny]

You're right that is a bit grim. Mines colour coded to the seats. Not sure if it's leather or vinyl though.

[Wildfire]

Yep, leather or Albma I think. covering it shouldn't be too hard.

[Psychobert]

To get things moving, a respray would be ok.. Looked fine when I first got the car, but is looking tatty now I admit. It really didn't get looked after when the insurance co were sat around with their thumbs up their arses..

[silverback mike]

As it's cosmetic I agree with you...What do you think black would look like rather than silver?

[silverback mike]

Or something completely mental

[Podie]

IIRC Shmerm (Shmern?) retrimmed his... there was a thread, or he had his own website... going back a bit now, but worth digging out.

[Podie]

Found it! Shmern's S dash recovering project.. www.shmern.org/coppermine/thumbnails.php?album=1

Never met the man, but chatted over e-mail a lot... top bloke and very helpful. Plenty of pictures at the above link (4 pages)... best of luck!

>> Edited by Podie on Friday 22 July 10:18

[silverback mike]

Cheers Podie.