Reupholstery Offical How-To Thread

[DaveTheAve]

Anyone know of a great tutorial/guide/how-to for Reupholstering? I know nothing about the topic, and am in need of redoing the interior look to increase my Honda's value (and rice points lol).

P.S. How do I take the door panel apart so I that I may remove the cloth on it too.

[DaveTheAve]

Nice, my father is now is telling me NOT to touch the interior of the car, stating that reupholstering the car requires a commercial sewing machine and it won't be worth it.

Question: Is this true? Can I use a normal sewing machine? Do I even need one (for re-carpeting & seats)?

[Hazwan]

Nice, my father is now is telling me NOT to touch the interior of the car, stating that reupholstering the car requires a commercial sewing machine and it won't be worth it.
Question: Is this true? Can I use a normal sewing machine? Do I even need one (for re-carpeting & seats)?

Man, my dad said the exact thing to me while back. I'm wondering if this true.

[russiankid]

Man, my dad said the exact thing to me while back. I'm wondering if this true.

I am sure it is, the stitches a industrial machine makes are much stronger and are probably different.

[Civic Accord Honda]

to much work for me only thing id replace are the door panels and carpet and just get some JY seats or seat covers

[Pico]

Nice, my father is now is telling me NOT to touch the interior of the car, stating that reupholstering the car requires a commercial sewing machine and it won't be worth it.
Question: Is this true? Can I use a normal sewing machine? Do I even need one (for re-carpeting & seats)?

I think you do for the stitching of the seams, if you were to use very thin material you could get away with it, but as far as the type of material you would get to recover the seats it would be too thick for a regular machine to do

[DaveTheAve]

Yeah, I was just going to get cloth and not leather so I didn't think it was that bad. However, as a post above me just pointed out, I can STILL do the carpeting without a sewing machine and just replace the seats.

Regular home carpet works fine right just need to fit it?

[MessyHonda]

how bad is your current carpet? i striped my interior of my dx in like 2 hours with my buddy. washed the carpet and used some fabric paint on it and painted it black then i installed some 3rd gen lude seats.


here are some pics

[DaveTheAve]

No I need new carpeting (probably more want than need), but I will be painting all the viynal and plastic black.

Edit: Then I guess i'll use seat covers.

[Cheeseburger]

how bad is your current carpet? i striped my interior of my dx in like 2 hours with my buddy. washed the carpet and used some fabric paint on it and painted it black then i installed some 3rd gen lude seats.


here are some pics

is it me or can i still see brown in the door?

[DaveTheAve]

I don't see brown but IMO it's too much black.

[MessyHonda]

thats the door not the door panel. i wanted to do a 2 tone but it was too rice as i wanted the fabric parts silver and the vinyl stuff black

[DaveTheAve]

lol, if I get what I want the fabric will be the red carpeting and the vinyl will also be black... Yeah, I'm ricing a bit my car because I need it to have a higher value... figure i'd get more for a ricey looking car from some punk.

[Hazwan]

how bad is your current carpet? i striped my interior of my dx in like 2 hours with my buddy. washed the carpet and used some fabric paint on it and painted it black then i installed some 3rd gen lude seats.


here are some pics

How does the dye holds up in time?

I really want to dye my interior panels, but I am concerned about the durability of the dye on high traffic areas around the door handles etc. I don't want them to came off and looks much worse than what it is now.

[DaveTheAve]

Yes, how does the paint hold up? Regular black vinyl paint right? Also, I still need to know how to take the door panel apart so I can replace the carpeting on the door. Can someone please assist me on that?