interior dye, anyone have good luck with it....

[riche]

I am needing to dye a few interior parts for a couple cars that I have. A few pieces are harder plastic that are white and respraying white. Also have some white door panels that I am thinking on dying to black. What is the best product to use. SEM, duplicolor or vht??

 

[beertestr]

VHT and Duplicolor are made by the same company, AFAIK, they are more like paint not dye. SEM is more like a paint too, but I've seen reallllly good results on leathers, and vinyls. I have not see it on any softer fabrics. I dyed a car seat with a fabric dye designed for synthetic fabrics with good results. You need to heat the dye to 180-200F for it to penetrate, the most difficult part was figuring out how to get an entire bench seat-back submerged in hot water.

 

[4 cam tbird]

Dad used SEM on his Charger. Died some stuff from red and blue to black with it. Drives the shit out of it and it has held up well. Car has been done since '05 and been driven 70k miles probably at this point (I know it had topped 50k in 2011 but he also has another car now too) and as far as I know he hasn't had to touch the interior pieces he turned to black.

 

[SVO_Brian]

I used the SEM vinyl dye for everything in my interior and it has held up far better than I was expecting it to. Just make sure the parts are clean, scuffed, and I would recommend purchasing their prep as well.

 

[DRAG-ULA]

Another vote for SEM dye. I dyed some pieces from black to white on my Satellite and never had a problem in the few years I the car. It's all in the prep. I did use their vinyl prep the offer

 

[DeFormula]

I also used SEM Black with great results on my old '73 'Cuda. Then used the car for 8 or 9 more years and it still looked good.

 

[derbydad276]

votes have been counted... If you dont use SEM ... dont bitch when it flakes off in 3 months

 

[mustangjoe87]

The sem interior dye is good stuff, I've used it on a few thing including a steering wheel and didn't have issues