The car's interior decoration takes a special place in tuning. The car owner can change the internal interior appearance of its vehicle using various materials. Currently, the decoration of the skin, Alcantara, Carpet and Flock is popular. If you wish and certain skills, transform the salon is possible and with their own hands.
Features tuning salon
The car's salon consists of separate elements that perform a specific function. One of the most important parts is the dashboard, and the largest seats protrude. When planning to finish the car's interior with your own hands, it is important to take into account that all the elements submit to some kind of defined style - only in this case everything will look holistic and harmoniously.
If it is intended to transform the entire interior, then you should always start with the instrument panel. Its decoration can be carried out by flock, special paint on plastic, leather and some other materials. If necessary, also replaced devices, scales, lighting lamps.
In second place in the sequence of finishing, there are seats, steering wheel and gearbox, which most often require restorations due to scratches, scratches, lives. For tightness of these elements of the salon, the rest uses the rest, and also repair their alcantara.
What is needed for work?
Change the finishing material in the car can be partially or completely. For example, if the damage has only the upholstery of the seats or the ceiling, then in most cases it does not make sense to repair the entire interior. Another thing is when most elements came to the deplorable state or the car owner decided to radically change the style of the cabin.
The determining factor is the choice of material. It can be Alcantara, skin, suede, carpet, - in any case, the first is the quality. Also to finish the car's salon with your own hands it will be necessary to buy special threads, which, as a rule, can be found in the same place where the main material.
It is necessary to determine in advance with the colors of the future cabin, which can be both monophonic, so consist of 2-3 shades combined with each other. By the way, the material must be bought with a margin, because when it is impassing, the formation of cropping is inevitably.
In addition to finishing material and strong threads for tightness, with their own hands, auto car will need:
- porolon, better on a tissue basis;
- sewing machine;
- tailnant scissors;
- glue;
- sandpaper shallow grain;
- foam roller and brushes;
- spatulas;
- construction hairdryer;
- construction knife;
- tools for dismantling salon elements.
Before starting work, you need to remove all parts to be updated, in this order: seats, instrument panel, doors cards, ceiling.
Door and Panel Card Update
After that, putting the material on the map, draw the pattern with a margin of 3 cm. On the detail we glue with a spatula and brush, the same is done from the wrong side of the Alcantara, leather or carpet. By giving glue to a little bit dry, the material is applied to the card and roll up with a roller. Do not forget to gently make holes for the steering handles and other items on the map. The last place is cut off too much and stick the bends.
Carpet reminds carpet covering and also sounds his translation from English. It has a wide range of colors, looks significantly better than factory upholstery, increases noise insulation and is distinguished by plasticity. The last property allows you to easily finish even complex parts in the cabin.
Tip: To update the cabin Cape, use a special aerosol glue, resistant to humidity and temperature drops.
The salary of the dashboard, the ceiling and cards of the doors of the carpet is made similar to the above-described method. The panel tightness is performed in the same way as work with doors cards. However, for this part of the interior of time, it will take more because it has a lot of bends. Carette also searcate the floor in the cabin.
Hauling chair salon
The easiest way at the same time is to buy new covers, but if you wish, the tight can be made with your own hands. Alcantara and skin are considered the most popular for this. The first type of material is a simulation of genuine leather, which is characterized by wear resistance, beautiful appearance. It can be separated not only the seats, but also other elements of the cabin.
For having seats, the auto Alcantara or Skin should stick to such a sequence of work:
- remove the old covers;
- carefully disperse them on the seams;
- bind each part of the iron;
- attach them to a new material and make patterns, not forgetting about the stock at 7-10 cm;
- the resulting pieces of sewing with a typewriter;
- remove the new case and put it on the seat.
Finishing the auto cabin with your own hands is not only an update option, but also by the method of pre-sales car preparation.
