Plaid Door Cards

[ALL NATURAL]

Well, about the only thing I haven't tried my hand at on a car is reupholstering so I decided to give it a shot yesterday when I was bored.
The interior of my Legacy is nice...but I want something that will stick out a little and is a little different so I went to Hobby Lobby and found some fabric that matched my interior and wahla..
When I have some extra time I am going to wrap my headliner also.
(Its not perfect but for my first attempt I am pretty proud)
Before:
http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs195.snc3/20264_450258365533_595645533_11039840_3715092_n.jpg

after:

http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs175.snc3/20264_450258355533_595645533_11039839_1811330_n.jpg

http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs195.snc3/20264_450258370533_595645533_11039841_5641608_n.jpg

[subyfreak619]

hey thats pretty cool! i did the opposite by spraying my door cards black with fabric spray to make them blend in with my tenzo r rally seats. working on your car gives you that satisfaction. i love having a car!

[httrdd]

Not my cup of tea, but you did a good job. It is always good to be different. :smt023

[Grafton]

you could make a business selling those to butch ladies *nudge* nudge*

[SOREN]

That's pretty interesting, but are you doing the plaid on the headliner too? I'm thinking that is going to be too much. I'd vote for a black or dark charcoal if anything. - or something that matches the colours in the plaid.

[mrpyb]

thats pretty cool man, was it hard to do? you should write up a DIY! i would love to get door cards to match my seats

[hellaGT]

oh I have been planing on installing white and black plaid door cards! Looks good!

[Huffer]

thats pretty cool man, was it hard to do? you should write up a DIY! i would love to get door cards to match my seats

There's already a DIY for this. Check the DIY section, and look under "Mark's doorcard mod" or similar.

[95USsubaru]

:shock: uhhh.... looks....good? i mean... different. very different haha actually looks really clean for it being your first time so big props on that. but.... the headliner also? i'm not gonna say anything or doubt you till i see it cause for some reason i think its gonna look sick. keep it up!

[wrxya33]

im doing mine in black suede either tomorrow or this weekend ill get some pics. mine are sagging anyways

[hallowpoint]

more of a vdub thing but i really like it. i think i saw a guy on rs25 do his headliner. i think you should.

[ALL NATURAL]

Thanks for the compliments, its a nice change everytime i have to crawl in my car!


you could make a business selling those to butch ladies *nudge* nudge*

Well the women seem to really like it and they are far from butch thank you very much hahah

Here is a pic of a VW Jetta with the plaid headliner...I am not 100% on it yet, either plaid or maybe just black..

https://sl-i.net/FORUM/images/imported/2010/01/IMGP1706JPG-1.jpg

[Huffer]

The ladies like it because it reminds them of these:
https://sl-i.net/FORUM/images/imported/2010/01/51WVH1PYVRL_SL500_AA280_-1.jpg

Oh snap.

No, I'm just kidding - as an accent material it looks great... but I would be very hesitant to do a large space like a headliner.

[95USsubaru]

think of it as a suit, the bolder the design, colors, ect. the more plain the accenting pattern should be. that way it makes the other stand out and still gives an overall clean look to the car. i'd say go with black. or w.e the darker color is in the plaid.

[SOREN]

NOOOOOOOO!O!!!!!OO!O!O!!!! Please don't. Please.

[subie/legacy]

https://sl-i.net/FORUM/images/imported/2010/01/IMG_5204-1.jpg
http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff121/tuee06/DSC03393.jpg

I found these over at Honda-tech.com

heres a link, theres like 20+ pages in the thread of people showing random headliners
http://www.honda-tech.com/showthread.ph ... 52&page=13 (http://www.honda-tech.com/showthread.php?t=2295952&page=13)

[wiisass]

Are the fronts easy to do? I took apart the rear doors to check them out and they have the plastic welded things instead of screws. But I don't think I ever took apart the fronts to see how they were, just assumed they were the same.

But I've been wanting to do this for a while, just don't want to totally screw up the door panels.

[chromehorn]

Nice. I just put together a new shift boot in plaid. Also have my door cards and arm rest covered in the same plaid. The fabric I chose had a black base as a opposed to your white. Will eventually have the visors and glove box wrapped as well. Headliner is going black suede in the summer. I originally wanted to have plaid on the headliner. But I do not want to deal with lining up the pattern properly. So black suede or another black material to match the WRX seat. Ièll try to post pics if i remember. Some how the question mark is now an e with an accent.

[crashnburn]

pretty cool. its something different and catches peoples eyes.

[chromehorn]

Try concentrating on the plaid and not how dirty my interior is. Bought the car in December and it's been too cold to give it a proper cleaning :(. Maybe next week.

*Thanks, pics are now fixed.

http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/5377/img0458v.jpg
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[mike-tracy]

you put ""and"" around each picture's address (with no spaces), and remove the quotes!

[lord flashheart]

https://sl-i.net/FORUM/images/imported/2010/01/IMG_5204-1.jpg


reminds me of cash cab

[inoneday]

1+ on that lord flashheart

[frogsthatmoo]

I actually kind of like it.

[chatterbox31]

Friggin HOT!!! I WANT PLAID NOW TOO! Damn you all! I will never be satisfied with plain ol' Subarus now.

[MarkSubi]

I want to do something like this but on my panel right their i have leather not fabric so would taking it off be the same as if it was fabric?

[subie/legacy]

^^^should be.. I don't see why it would be any different?

[MarkSubi]

I was wondering, I myself want to add a fabric design to my panels to my doors to but the thing is is that I have the leather ones
not the fabric ones so do yawl think if I want to go ahead and do this that I should go ahead and buy the fabric ones or should I just go ahead and use the leather ones I have now?

I have a BD legacy btw.

[subie/legacy]

it really shouldn't be any different then the cloth ones. the fabric is just glued the the plastic underneath.
the glue was so dry on my door cards that I just pulled the fabric right off. I didn't even have to remove my door panels, lol

[ALL NATURAL]

I ended up changing up my interior again since I had the plaid/stickerbomb for awhile.

Checker/Woodgrain

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[JunkerXL]

LOL i love it! thats some nice plaid'n there. not my thing in a soob, but then again who knows, i might do it just cuz. nice domo :smt005



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