door trim ideas anyone?

by **mad_keen** » August 23rd, 2009, 1:39 pm

hey was jsut wondering if anyone has any ideas for my door trims. ill be doing it all myself so nothing too flash..

i was thinking the top piece black, the material insert red and the handle chrome.

i dont want the whole trim black because the rest of the interior is that grandma grey colour. if anyone can photoshop my ideas on to a door trim and maybe add some of their own it wud be awesome :thumbsup:

sorry bout the pic cudnt find a real big one or one with a handle but anyway..

by **FordFairmont** » August 23rd, 2009, 1:55 pm

mad_keen wrote:.

i dont want the whole trim black because the rest of the interior is that grandma grey colour...

generally the door trim colour scheme has to go with the rest of the interior so if you want to leave the rest "grandma grey" i wouldnt change the door trim

by **skewy_33** » August 23rd, 2009, 2:04 pm

id just re go the carpet bits a nicer darker grey colour

by **FordFairmont** » August 23rd, 2009, 2:18 pm

if you keen on doing the rest, then maybe a black with gold highlights theme?

by **skewy_33** » August 23rd, 2009, 2:33 pm

that looks nice as

by **Phoenix** » August 23rd, 2009, 3:10 pm

Something thats easy as hell is to just replace the carpet with sub box carpet stuff. Pretty damn easy. Could always just wrap some of the same around the door card as well, that's be easy to do too.

http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s120 ... C00079.jpg

by **mad_keen** » August 23rd, 2009, 3:17 pm

FordFairmont wrote: generally the door trim colour scheme has to go with the rest of the interior so if you want to leave the rest "grandma grey" i wouldnt change the door trim

well im going to smooth out the plastic bits on the dash and paint them gloss black and maybe dye the dash black. so i was thinking bring black into the trims as well. i want red and black theme for the interior tho. but i dont want too much painted plastic or it starts to loook cheap.

by **mad_keen** » August 25th, 2009, 5:28 pm

got bored so i thort id post a pic of some sample trim i got.. its ment to be gammin leather.. hoping to wrap this around the card.

by **gerbzjen** » August 25th, 2009, 9:29 pm

let us know how it turns out mate with pics and all that, been thinking about doing something with my door trims....i got BA chrome door handles to go in, but i wanna do something with the whole door. but wanna stay away from the die if possible, maybe upholster the door, that would be something different

by **mad_keen** » August 30th, 2009, 8:14 pm

these are a few ideas i photoshopped up roughly

dunnooo..
my door trims are out and insets are cleaned and ready for material to go on just ont know wat to do with the actualy trim

by **mad_keen** » September 4th, 2009, 1:59 pm

inserts were sent off today and i dyed the top piece. thats all im gunnna be doing for now. ill do more once i can thin of sumfin.

will get get pix of them hopefully next week for those who wanted them,.

by **FordFairmont** » September 4th, 2009, 2:05 pm

dunno man, the bluey-grey, black and the red dont really go together

by **mad_keen** » September 4th, 2009, 2:32 pm

lol too late noww. ill prob end up going all black eventually..

ill c how this goes anyway its not really hard to paint them anyway

by **mad_keen** » September 4th, 2009, 3:25 pm

just ripped the paper and tape off the trims.. sooooooooooo farking happy about how it turned out. the black looks soo good. hopefully the red fits in ok.. but the grey and black looks so awesome the pix dont look that good tho

by **skewy_33** » September 4th, 2009, 3:36 pm

where did u buy the dye from mate? looks pretty good

by **mad_keen** » September 4th, 2009, 5:48 pm

just from autobarn. the colour is umm velvet black?? sumfin like that. there was gloss black but i didnt want it to look shiny like paint.

by **gerbzjen** » September 4th, 2009, 6:12 pm

Man, the trims look good like that, I don't think the red will work though...gotta go for a more neutral color. Unless you end doing the whole door black. you said you sent the inserts off? to where? is there a company that does that? I've tried a couple of diff combinations with the inserts myself, still haven't settled on wwhat i'm doing. I've done black fabric, black vinyl and grey vinyl on the inserts, getting pretty good at it too. i think the black door trims would go well in my car cos i've had it re-trimmed in balck carpet, so the stock door colour looks out of place a bit.

by **mad_keen** » September 4th, 2009, 6:20 pm

oh nah i just sent them with a mate to take them back to where i used to live cus i hav a cuzin there that does trimming. but umm if you go to http://www.ultimateautotrim.com or just find one of their products on ebay under "ef falcon leather seatcovers" they advertise just the material insert as an extra when you get seat covers soo i dunno but they might sell them separatly to wateva colour/texture you like.

wen i went to an auto trimming place they quoted me 200 bux to do the 4 doors... hopefully my cuzin only wants a carton lol.

btw was the carpet expensive?? and did you buy like one already cut to size or just bort carpet and cut it yourselff?

by **mad_keen** » September 4th, 2009, 6:34 pm

kinda the inspiration for the trims. except i want fairmont ghia door handles. ive seen the red withy the black and the handles before but i cant rememebr where... but this is wat first gave me the idea.

by **gerbzjen** » October 19th, 2009, 4:06 pm

whoa, sorry for the mass lateness on the reply dude
na the carpet was cut out from a roll not pre shaped
check out the pics it looks pretty good although i have to door something about the door trims, considering doing it all black with purple-ish inserts...

by **Mickus** » October 19th, 2009, 9:39 pm

mad_keen wrote:

kinda the inspiration for the trims. except i want fairmont ghia door handles. ive seen the red withy the black and the handles before but i cant rememebr where... but this is wat first gave me the idea.

That car is terrible dude, started off mint and that guy just totally f**ked it in the end, If I was you, instead if a bright red, perhaps go with a deep maroon, would look a lit classier than something bright.

by **EFFalcon** » October 20th, 2009, 7:20 am

agreed, bright colours don't work on interiors unless EVERYTHING is done.

by **mad_keen** » October 20th, 2009, 9:12 am

haha yer i followed his thread on some other sight. he did totally fck it! wen i saw the snake on the dash i was like :shock:

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ummm they are probably done by now. i did go a little darker with the red but its still pretty bright. we'll see how it turns out wen i hav time to go pick them up . will post pix

by **pHaT`eL** » October 20th, 2009, 4:28 pm

If your going red, do the whole bottom half red.

by **Nikk O'lass** » October 20th, 2009, 4:54 pm

pHaT`eL wrote:If your going red, do the whole bottom half red.

This.

But that means the rest of the interior is gonna have to match....

by **pHaT`eL** » October 20th, 2009, 5:01 pm

Thats what I meant, bottom half of dash, console, etc..

by **misk** » October 20th, 2009, 5:14 pm

just mucking around

by **mad_keen** » October 20th, 2009, 10:14 pm

pHaT`eL wrote:If your going red, do the whole bottom half red.

nah.. my grand plan is to dye the dash black at the top, pull the plastics off the front smooth them out and paint them gloss black (like bf fairmont ghia interior), full red led conversion, somehow find someone who will make me a cluster with the same background as the bf fairmont ghia, red neons under dash and under back seats and black leather seatcovers off ebay with red double stitching. also console lid and handbrake cover to match.

moneys the problem lol

by **Eb Barbie** » October 21st, 2009, 8:42 am

I think the black continued from tops of door trims to dash will look good/better.

Seats sound good to mix the red in but are they those slips on ebay everyone seems to hate??

by **mad_keen** » October 21st, 2009, 8:50 am

Eb Barbie wrote:I think the black continued from tops of door trims to dash will look good/better.

Seats sound good to mix the red in but are they those slips on ebay everyone seems to hate??

ummm i dunno does everyone hate them? its those fake leather ones. they look alright to me. cheaper then getting a retrim..

by **EFFalcon** » October 21st, 2009, 8:56 am

a lot of people don't like them if they're not fitted properly.

and especially if they're placed over GLi seats or something.

no matter how you retrim GLi seats they'll look crap.
a set of XR seats or something should be the best bang for buck, properly fitted covers on those would come off alright.

by **mad_keen** » October 21st, 2009, 9:01 am

arghh! why kill my dreams lol. are u saying gli seats just look crap or are u saying those covers dont fit gli seats properly? as long as they fit properly i really couldnt care. its a whole lot better then standard.

by **EFFalcon** » October 21st, 2009, 9:26 am

You can have them made to fit GLi seats no worries, but they'll just look flat and cheap.

the seat pattern on GLi's is pretty average

by **EFFalcon** » October 21st, 2009, 9:38 am

by **EFFalcon** » October 21st, 2009, 9:42 am

these are based on fairmont seats from memory, better fitted.

by **misk** » October 21st, 2009, 9:48 am

are they the 'covers' john, or trimmed to suit?

by **EFFalcon** » October 21st, 2009, 9:56 am

they're both the ebay covers.
they're trimmed to match the standard seat pattern, so they can go on the standard foams, but most people just slip them on and leave them.

the Cream ones above were glued to the original seat cover so its fitted properly.

by **SnyperEB** » October 21st, 2009, 10:40 am

They look tacky!!

by **mad_keen** » October 21st, 2009, 11:23 am

so the 1st ones are gli seats? i think they look good . love the ripple in the second ones

by **mad_keen** » October 21st, 2009, 11:33 am

the black carpet in that 1st pic looks farking feral.

i was looking at getting them from these people. it seems betterquality then www.ultimateautotrim.com.au.

they also have real leather packages but thet are like $1500 or somthing

http://www.proseat.com.au/

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