You told me not to but I did it anyways...

[GrandAmSSE]

an I'm glad I did! I painted my carpet black and it kicks aSSSSSSSSSSS! I love it. it looks so good. I'll post pics soon.

[quadkid]

awesome, cant wait to see how it came out.

[RedGrandAm2003]

Painted the carpet black? I'm interested on seeing how that turned out.

[Mike94SE]

paint paint or dye paint?

[red98grandamse]

Originally posted by Mike94SE
paint paint or dye paint?

IIRC he was talking about spray cans in his other thread:(
Just like he is talking about spray painting the headliner in another thread as well.

[GrandAmSSE]

No I'm not spraying the headliner. I'm leaving some stuff gray, the headliner is one of them.

['96GAGT]

Well no matter what camera you use to take a picture of it, it will hide what it really looks like.. I dont know how you could paint a carpet and have it turn out to be actually decent.

[GrandAmSSE]

I'll use my 3.3 mega pixel camera. Trust me I love the way it turned out. I'll try to show it the best I can from many angles.

[RedGrandAm2003]

I cant see it turning out good if its spray paint... But I wont say anythign till I see it. Besides, wouldnt it make it stiff and crappy?

[Dargasonus]

I tihnk someone said run a brush over it to seperate all the clots in some other thread...

You should have just did it on a mat and saw how it came out before you did your whole interior there grandamsse. Now if it wears off easy / comes out like shit your screwed irl.

As far as spray painting goes, they make a vinyl / carpet spray paint you can buy at Advance Auto.

['96GAGT]

Originally posted by RedGrandAm2003
I cant see it turning out good if its spray paint... But I wont say anythign till I see it. Besides, wouldnt it make it stiff and crappy?

Like I just said. :lol:

[RedGrandAm2003]

News to me. lol I'll keep my trim the same color thank you :)

[GrandAmSSE]

Ok was going to wait till tommerow to take pics but you leave me no choice!

[Dargasonus]

Well damn dude, you do something everyone told you not to, and you don't think they want to see pics to prove themselves right?

[GrandAmSSE]

Boom! CLose ups look strange with the flash. Let me take some in the daytime. I looks better in person then in the pics. Flash makes it look light.

[GrandAmSSE]

before.

[GrandAmSSE]

Before. Looks better to me.

[Dargasonus]

Originally posted by GrandAmSSE
Flash makes it look light.

I sure hope so, I can't tell a diffrence between the before and after.


Did you use a carpet dye or just black spray paint?

[GrandAmSSE]

Look at the hump in the back and then look at it in the after pic. SEE!

[Dargasonus]

I hope you swept and cleaned your carpet good before painting. Or it will just come off anyway.

And you didn't answer me? Regular spray paint or carpet dye?

[GrandAmSSE]

Spray paint. And yes I spent an hour or two with a brush and vaccum. Damn sand it a PITA!

[quadkid]

i think it looks pretty good for a budget job.

[GrandAmSSE]

Thanks. I pulled the whole interior out.

[uk2fans]

i dont see the difference.....

[Dargasonus]

Originally posted by uk2fans
i dont see the difference.....

agreed

[GrandAmSSE]

Your telling me it does look better? I guess big yellow stains are cool now hun.

[Dargasonus]

:agree: big yellow crap stains are coming back

i just took a big dump in my floorboard a few minuntes ago

[Dargasonus]

a few more coats of doody and my car will look as good as yours use to

[GrandAmSSE]

I'd out your windows. Come on, you see no change at all?

[Dargasonus]

Well im not sure about it yet, but i think im going to get them good and cracked with a rock
but not busted out all the way, maybe i'll poo on them too, just to match my carpet

[jordanGT]

I see no change. I see a crappy pic of 'after' followed by 2 crappy pics of 'before.' You can't tell anything, but if you used spray paint on your carpet, I don't think anybody needs a good picture to know if it looks good or doesn't look good. We all have a mental image...Rattle can paint rarely looks good on its intended surfaces; if you paint carpet with it...well...that mental image isn't a good one.

[Dargasonus]

I just don't know how you would get it coated all over without missing spots. A good poo, however, gets a good even coat every time.

[GrandAmSSE]

Carpet was gray and I useed black it was easy.

[Mike94SE]

Easier is using a knife and having none...

[TA^Guy]

I'm a little concern about your 3.3 megpixel camera taking such crappy camera phone like photos.
Originally posted by Dargasonus


You should have just did it on a mat and saw how it came out before you did your whole interior there grandamsse. Now if it wears off easy / comes out like shit your screwed irl.

Did you see his carpet to begin with?

He didn't have anything to lose.

[TorquePower]

Originally posted by Dargasonus
agreed

...Are you guys color blind?

But I do have to say it's an improvement from the before picture. I used think my interior sucked, but my carpet is actually pretty good now...

Only crappy interior stuff I have is...part of my dashboard above my gauges has a screw missing, my middle-driver's vent, the side tab holding it in place is broke, and my heater control knob, the middle one, falls off when I use more torque.

Oh yeah, the bulbs lighting up my radio are broke inside, so it doesn't light up.

[GrandAmSSE]

That wasn't my 3.3 MP cam. I needed to hook it up and was gonna do it tommerow. Thanks to the people who think it looks better!

[uk2fans]

ahhh I can see the difference....i kept looking at the 2 before pictures....yeah it does look better

[96GreenGaGT]

well what ever happened to the better 3.3mp camera photos that you were gonna do?

it is really difficult to see what it looks like.. stains or no stains to tell if it is indeed better.

there also is always vinyl paint too..

but there is something that you should know with painting even with canned paint. you can paint a carpet and still have it flexible and soft and everything. i have done it before on accident. the trick is to hold it far away from the surface so the paint dusts the carpet. if you dust the paint on it will settle without becoming hard and crusty. this however takes ungodly amounts of time and patience... not to mention the act of removing the carpet from the car.... but it can be done.

[GrandAmSSE]

Thanks. I removed the carpet. I need to hook up my 3.3mp cam and was gonna do that tommerow but you guys wanted pics some I used my 1.0mp cam.

[jordanGT]

Originally posted by TorquePower
...Are you guys color blind?


Whoopie; it looks darker...that's all we can see. But the whole picture's darker. The pictures are so poor in quality that you can't tell ANYTHING about how it looks. That's the point, not that we can't see that it's darker...

[TorquePower]

Are you sure you guys aren't slightly color blind or the contrast on your monitor is too low? You can definately see a difference, and the pictures aren't significantly different in light.

Compare the center console in the before and after pictures, they look only a very slight difference in brightness.

Oh and Gray to Black will make it just darker basically, it's not like he's painting it black from white or red or some other color, because from what I remember...

Gray and black are close on the color scale.

[RedGrandAm2003]

I... honestly cant tell the difference... i'm going to try to take another look.. but looks like the same poo covered interior to me :)

do you by any chance mean the black arm rest? I dont know.. thats a random stab in the dark what you've painted...

[TorquePower]

Maybe my brightness and contrast are just high...

But it is scientifically known that most males have a slight color blindness, making the color tones darker than they usually are, not saying you guys do, just saying that also might be why =P

['96GAGT]

Doesn't seem to matter how much help you try to offer. The ONLY way I'd ever change or modify the color of my carpet would have been with dye and I'd make 100% sure before I did that I knew what I was getting my self into. It' takes just a little under an hour to PROPERLY remove the interior and free up the carpet and REMOVE it. It's very important that if your going to dye it to just remove it. I did this YESTERDAY. How ever I didn't dye my carpet. I got a carpet in damn near new condition. I could have it for 50$ if I removed it my self. So I went to work and removed it. I guess an old lady drove it or something. It pained me to see this car in the yard honestly. Red 98 GT Coupe paint in excellent condition. Car only had 87,000 on it. The point I'm trying to make here is. The interior of your car is TRASHED. And what you should honestly do is go to the Junk Yard and browse around the cars and inspect the carpets until you find one that doesn't look too bad. Buy it.. Take it home.. AND CLEAN THE EVER LIVING HELL OUT OF IT! You might as well clean your seats and everything else as well. I got a new center console for my car the one I had was scratched from the seat belt clicker on both sides of it. Something tells me since you painted your console it's suseptable to the same treatment. Not that it will or already has but it's a possibility.

:2cents:

[Dargasonus]

Originally posted by TA^Guy
Did you see his carpet to begin with?

He didn't have anything to lose.

good point

[RedGrandAm2003]

Originally posted by Dargasonus
good point

lmao

[ManktheTank19]

You could of bought a bran new carpet for 120 that is exactly for your car and you could pick the color of the carpet to :)

[RedGrandAm2003]

can you buy shag carpet for your car? That would be ghettofab. lolol.

[Dargasonus]

I can get it in shag?! Sweet, i'll get some to match my fuzzy dice

[RedGrandAm2003]

Radical!

['96GAGT]

I believe eBay sells that shag stuff.

[RedGrandAm2003]

I'm sorry but thats just... well... lame. maybe for a hippie van or something but for a car? no. lol.. but back to the whole.. painting thing.. you should have dyed it.

[Bouchie11982]

Originally posted by quadkid
i think it looks pretty good for a budget job.
i agree...from what i can see in the pictures, it hides all the stains and stuff...BUT maybe you should have used a carpet dye..?? spray paint will wear off, but overall it looks good from what i can see

[Dave C]

I think I need some better pictures to look at before saying anything.

['96GAGT]

Originally posted by Dave C
I think I need some better pictures to look at before saying anything.

agreed :agree:

[Big Joe]

The pics are pretty bad. If you think u did a good job, thats all that matters. I personnaly wouldnt paint a carpet but hey if u like it more power to u. Since the pics are kind bad I dont see much of a difference except for the fact that the after pics looks like u cleaned the rug, thats all. It doesnt really look black to me. Get some better pictures then we'll really see how it looks.

[XoticGA]

In that after pic, all I see is a screwdriver :lol:

[Dargasonus]

Originally posted by RedGrandAm2003
Radical!

:agree:

[VanishingImage]

I can see the difference but still notice the "browning" spots. Hopefully it lasts but I would still recomend you use a good carpet cleaner,like a steamer,can rent,doesn't cost a whole bunch. Then let it dry then get some carpet dye,it isn't real expensive and it will look 100x better. I need to do the same to mine but Im just getting new carpet,its 150 and its new so Id rather just get new.

[Dargasonus]

Yeah...get the spray paint off, let a experienced (no thats not you grandamsse) detailer steam the carpet clean, and then dye it. It's just a little bit more expensive than paint, a couple dollars, and it will come out aot better.

[quadkid]

id recommend getting a couple floor mats (at least for the front) to help protect the carpet from further damage. A pair of those all weather rubber ones will help keep them from absorbing a lot of water/snow/mud.

[Dargasonus]

if he didn't have acouple extra bucks for dye he probably doesn't have the money for new mats

[quadkid]

true

['96GAGT]

If you can't afford to mod.. then you shouldn't do it at all..

[Old Guy]

I agree with John, he really had nothing to lose. Just a note of caution though. My buddy painted his carpet when we were kids. It rained pretty hard one night and he tracked the black paint into his mom's living room carpet. It will rub off after a while.


Originally posted by GrandAmSSE
I need to hook up my 3.3mp cam and was gonna do that tommerow but you guys wanted pics some I used my 1.0mp cam.

This may be a dumb question but why do you have to "hook up" a camera? Or are you talking about a web cam??

[GrandAmSSE]

HIGH RES BITCHES! j/k lol

[GrandAmSSE]

another.

['96GAGT]

Not to be a dick or anything but I'd like you to use that camera and take some photos again of your interior just make sure its outside in the day light. The blackness of night really masks alot of things.

[Big Joe]

You painted that black??? It looks good dont get me wrong but it looks like the factory color to me. I donno thats exactly what my carpet looks like, doesnt look like it was painted black. It just looks like a really clean regular carpet.

[GrandAmSSE]

Well no its no true black. It would have take a of paint to do that and made it stiff.

[Dargasonus]

Originally posted by Old Guy
This may be a dumb question but why do you have to "hook up" a camera? Or are you talking about a web cam??

probably has to be charged if it has a battery pack instead of acctual batties.

[DontPassTheFence]

I see, I see - you only lightly sprayed it so it would be more of a charcoal color as opposed to spraying on 3-5 coats to get a black color, but the carpet would have become hard if ya did that! Ive gotta say,thats pretty clever and I like the look of it more than the old, faded, stained carpet you used to have.

Way to be innovative with low funds, also way to plan it out so you woudlnt screw it up.

Lets just hope it doesnt rub or wear off like Tom mentioned

[jordanGT]

Hmmm...I stand corrected; that doesn't look half bad...I question the longevity, but for now, it doesn't look half bad.

[Bouchie11982]

Originally posted by Old Guy
I agree with John, he really had nothing to lose. Just a note of caution though. My buddy painted his carpet when we were kids. It rained pretty hard one night and he tracked the black paint into his mom's living room carpet. It will rub off after a while.




This may be a dumb question but why do you have to "hook up" a camera? Or are you talking about a web cam??
no no...what he means is that with digi cams you have to load the program onto the computer (like a sony or kodak program) for it to read the camera...get wha ti mean ...c;mon Old Guy get with the times! :D

[GrandAmSSE]

I had to hook the camera up to the USB port. Thanks for the compilments. The cars starting to turn around now and on its way to being a drooler. I need to replace the hood and trunk lid which I now have the money for. So its just a matter of me getting the time to go to the JY and get the parts.

[Old Guy]

Originally posted by Bouchie11982
.c;mon Old Guy get with the times! :D

I am with the times. Win 2000 or XP don't need to have anything loaded on them to read cameras. Just go to My Coumputer and look for the Removable Drive.

And BTW......that paint job looks good bud. You had nothing to lose, and it sure looks better than those stains.

[Bouchie11982]

Originally posted by Old Guy
I am with the times. Win 2000 or XP don't need to have anything loaded on them to read cameras. Just go to My Coumputer and look for the Removable Drive.
you know i was kidding around Dad...right? :D

[Dargasonus]

Originally posted by jordanGT
Hmmm...I stand corrected; that doesn't look half bad...I question the longevity, but for now, it doesn't look half bad.

It looks alot better, but I can still see where the stains are, but that would be hard to get rid of w/o replacing the carpet completely.

I think the paint will rub off, and to have to keep pulling the interior to recoat would be to much of a hastle.

You have the money for a new hood / trunk but not new carpet?

If the carpet paint holds up you need to do the same to your seats, yuck.

[inferno]

ive done this before with my trunk carpet and the carpet piece on the doors. I used Vinyl and carpet spray paint and it held very well.

[GrandAmSSE]

I only have enough money for the hood and trunk or the carpet. Seats are next. I wonder if I could spray paint them?














Only joking!

[Old Guy]

Originally posted by Bouchie11982
you know i was kidding around Dad...right? :D

Of course I did.... I just forgot to give you a :D

[Dargasonus]

only joking? whats the diffrence between your seats and your carpet? they are both along the same lines

['96GAGT]

Originally posted by Big Joe
You painted that black??? It looks good dont get me wrong but it looks like the factory color to me. I donno thats exactly what my carpet looks like, doesnt look like it was painted black. It just looks like a really clean regular carpet.

Amen to that :agree:

[Old Guy]

Originally posted by GrandAmSSE
I only have enough money for the hood and trunk or the carpet. Seats are next. I wonder if I could spray paint them?














Only joking!

You don't have to joke....here ya go man.

http://www.electronicsoutfitter.com/store/RTO210.html

I've seen it done and it looks pretty good. It actually says it's for carpet too.

['96GAGT]

Originally posted by Old Guy
You don't have to joke....here ya go man.

http://www.electronicsoutfitter.com/store/RTO210.html

I've seen it done and it looks pretty good. It actually says it's for carpet too.

DON'T ENCOURAGE HIM!

[Dargasonus]

Mark have you looked at his back seats? You need a hazmat suit to sit in them :rofl:

[RedGrandAm2003]

lmao. Good one. But I wonder what he was doing to make them that way :| I'm afraid to ask.

[GrandAmSSE]

Thats cool but I like the gray and black interior. Hey I got the car 300 miles ago. It was like that when I got it.

[Dargasonus]

Yeah..Some people just don't take care of their cars..

[GrandAmSSE]

It was!

[Dargasonus]

I was refering to the previous owner.

If it was taken care of, then did you do all the stains?

[RedGrandAm2003]

they got a bit too *happy*

[GrandAmSSE]

Looked like someone spilled glue on the back seat. j/k

[RedGrandAm2003]

lol I guess you could say that...

[Dargasonus]

:rofl: thats yucky

Look on the bright side grandamsse....

Your ride isn't as cool as this one:

http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/8317/viperhot3wf.jpg

But hell, you sure are trying!

[RedGrandAm2003]

I take it you painted it silver? lol

[Dargasonus]

No i'm acctually repainting it black, thats sanded down to the metal :rofl:

I put some of it back together just for that pic a sec ago

[Dargasonus]

I took a small tube of plastic from a air can and propped the rear of the body up on the rear mount :rofl:

I mean...i bought a new springs for the back ;)

['96GAGT]

I said that simply for the fact of spraypainting... I learned at an early age that anything you have to rattlecan isn't worth much to begin with..

[RedGrandAm2003]

lolol... Did you cut the springs on that sweet viper?! lolol :p

[Dargasonus]

Nah I got a spring kit off ebay, I just got the front ones on earlier, took me a while to find my spring compressor.

http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/7264/viperhigh7gp.jpg

[inferno]

:lol:

['96GAGT]

Can you say "Lift"?

[GrandAmSSE]

You should get some hydrolics! Then you can bounces homes. :)

[Bouchie11982]

how on earth did this thread get hijacked??

[sunrunner_pei]

Enough is enough.