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DIY: Interior upgrade - alcantara + black paint!!!


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Dash - wouldn't be that difficult to do, but I'm afraid to mess with airbag deployment.

 

I'm thinking about instrument hood, but since it's not a separate part - you can't just wrap it. Some creative solution necessary

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is that flat black paint? Duplicolor bumper paint correct? looks good.

 

Yes. It's extremely close match to cupholder part and nav panel. It looks totally stock. So people who don't know - have no idea that's not how it came from the factory :)

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vlad, everything looks great. How long did it take you to do it all? Where bouts in GR do you live? You get your car from Delta Subaru?

 

Took me about 4 nights, few hours at a time. I live in Caledonia, and yep, got car from Delta. I was shopping for an Audi a4, when the salesman I knew said that I can get something much faster for less money. I glad I listened. Although some parts of the Suby interior always made me wish for better materials.

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Nice job on this. The stereo and shifter surround look very nice. When you had the radio apart, is it possible to change the light colors?

 

Yes, I've seen a walk-through on it somewhere here. The guy used colored film or something like that.

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Actually, I decided to go a step (or two) further and put alcantara on instrument hood. In order to do that proper, I need to create a mold of the hood, and then make a fiberglass copy of the surface. Than I'll wrap it in alcantara and put on top of existing hood. Lots of work. But shouldn't be that difficult. Fun fun fun. :)

 

If it all goes well, the next step will be alcantara wrapped gauges pod on top of the nav!

 

excellent! I dig it. I'm looking for some Alcantara to match my STI....I'd like to do the instrument hood and maybe the dash. Like the STI 'Carbon' model

 

http://cache-05.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/12/2009/09/500x_subaru_wrx_sti_carbon_3.jpg

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Did you do the instrument hood?
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Did you do the instrument hood?

 

No. I tried to make a mold from my own panel using drying clay, but it deformed too much after drying. And I can't find a salvage panel to make a real good mold, and I don't have money to waste on buying a brand new panel. :(

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hmmm ideas now for the shift boot and hand brake cover as I know the leather will probably crack. Im on my 2nd set of leather.

 

I made probably 10K miles since that post and alcantara still looks like new! :p

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I can confirm today, 7 years later this STILL looks mint. (i am the new owner of the car, snooping through your posts to find out about the car haha)

 

Haha, world is a small place!Have fun

 

I just remembered re this topic - I meant to put a metal button to close the boot around the shifter... and never got to do it. It's your problem now :)

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