Carpet Dye

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Post Wed Feb 02, 2011 3:51 am

Does anyone know anything about this? Any good products, aplication tips, etc?
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Post Wed Feb 02, 2011 8:21 am

thre are some very good threads on this ...o a search under my name
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Post Wed Feb 02, 2011 8:39 am

Autosmart do a good one I use on my sales cars and autoglym do one in aerosol application that's covers anything!
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Post Thu Mar 10, 2011 12:07 pm

Search the forum using "carpet" and "dye", there have been several detailed threads with pics covering the entire process (including one in my name).
Note that dye will only take to nylon carpets used in earlier models (not sure when they changed) and won't be any use on polypropylene carpet.
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Post Thu Mar 10, 2011 12:27 pm

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Post Thu Mar 10, 2011 12:30 pm

Thanks. This was for a friend who hasn't mentioned it since but will forward him the info.
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