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do not colour your own carpets!!!!

Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 10:30 am
by bigmoz
you can buy them new for only around 200 dollars in what ever colour you want........

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1983-198 ... 0168QQrdZ1

just thought you would want to know don vito.......

bigmoz :pimp

Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 2:56 pm
by Bangbus
But it's in the US and says ships to US only... These guys are in Melb and I think it's $115 for moulded carpet http://www.knoxautocarpets.com.au/

Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 8:49 pm
by DonnVito
why would i want to know? i dyed my carpet and it looks ace. im stoked with it and it didnt cost anywhere near 200 or 100 :)

Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 3:43 pm
by Powerslave
And the heel pad is on the wrong side.

Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 8:40 pm
by DonnVito
thats the side it fits and thats teh side it was on when i got it

can't dye polypropylene

Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 7:55 am
by kit
it is impossible to dye the carpet in your starion because the carpet is made of polypropylene which is non absorbant polypropylene is the same stuff shopping bags are made of if you paint your carpet it won't last.

Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 1:09 pm
by DonnVito
come and see mine

Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 2:27 pm
by kit
i actually do this for a living dye carpets what you have done may look fine it won't last

Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 5:36 pm
by DonnVito
not much lasts on old cars anyway

Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 10:51 pm
by Miss GSR
No offence kit but I have had alot of "PRO'S" tell me what is impossible, oh that wont work, that wont last and so on and so on.

AND 99.9% of the time I have proven them wrong, I dont mean to say that your not good at your job.
but just because your computers, texts or your trainer/ employer/ ect, tells you that it wont work does not mean that it wont always work or isn't possible- can you fit 2 15 inch subs in the boot of a sirion according to where you got your system fitted NO YOU CANT, but in reality YES YOU CAN.(not my car, a mate of mine)

Not exactly the same situation I know but the same type of Im a Pro I know whats what.

Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 12:04 pm
by kit
Miss GSR now if you cut one fiber from your carpet and place it in water it floats that means it is non absorbant if you place wool or nylon in water they sink but polypropylene will float because it is plastic carpet is dyed with a acid based water based solution called soloution dyeing but to get colour into polypropylene you need to get the plasic into molten form and add colour then when they extrude the polypropylene into strands when drying thats how polypropylene is made the spray on dye you buy in a can is more like a paint that will rub off your polypropylene it will rub off over time

Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 12:23 pm
by SIR GSR
Damn Kit, that's too many big words for me :D:D

Sounds like you know your carpet.

Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 4:48 pm
by DonnVito
but does that knowledge get him any carpet.. :P
i think not LOL

Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 2:48 pm
by SIR GSR
His knowledge may not, but his car certainly would :D:D

Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 9:47 pm
by redzone
IF a dog pees on your carpet, kit can tell what kind of dog it was, what it ate and drank in the last 24 hours, how old it was and roughly what breed it is.... :puke the funniest part about all that is that I`M NOT JOKING!!!!!!!! he is the albert einstein of carpet. And you bet he picks up chicks with that knowledge......... rofl