Over the last few evenings I've been wrapping all the wood trim in my car with some 3M Di-Noc Carbon Fiber vinyl. It was shockingly easy. A little rubbing alcohol to clean things prior to application, a heat gun to help with forming it to the random shapes, a sharp xacto knife for trimming, and presto! A whole new interior look.
Passenger door
Right rear door
Driver door
Left rear door (can you see the seam?)
Audio unit
Passenger dash
Light switch on driver side
Shifter
I'm really pleased with how well it turned out. I took time to figure out which way I wanted the direction of the pattern to go, and settled on having it radiate away from the steering wheel. So everything center and passenger side points to the right, and everything driver side points to the left. This winds up working really well with the door trim.
The only tricky part is the 2x4' piece of di-noc I ordered isn't wide enough to do the left rear door trim piece with the pattern going the way I wanted. I had to splice two pieces together carefully to make it work. Thankfully I had a rotary trimmer and quilting square from, well, quilting, which made it trivial to trim it exactly. (Yes, you can laugh here. That's fine.)
I have to go back with the heat gun and do a small touch-up on the shifter piece. You can see there's a small bubble in the bottom left of the passenger switch assembly that's going to drive me nuts unless I fix it. That's easy to do with the heat gun though.
:thumbsup:
Neil
Passenger door
Right rear door
Driver door
Left rear door (can you see the seam?)
Audio unit
Passenger dash
Light switch on driver side
Shifter
I'm really pleased with how well it turned out. I took time to figure out which way I wanted the direction of the pattern to go, and settled on having it radiate away from the steering wheel. So everything center and passenger side points to the right, and everything driver side points to the left. This winds up working really well with the door trim.
The only tricky part is the 2x4' piece of di-noc I ordered isn't wide enough to do the left rear door trim piece with the pattern going the way I wanted. I had to splice two pieces together carefully to make it work. Thankfully I had a rotary trimmer and quilting square from, well, quilting, which made it trivial to trim it exactly. (Yes, you can laugh here. That's fine.)
I have to go back with the heat gun and do a small touch-up on the shifter piece. You can see there's a small bubble in the bottom left of the passenger switch assembly that's going to drive me nuts unless I fix it. That's easy to do with the heat gun though.
:thumbsup:
Neil