Dying head rest sides ?

[polsta]

Anyone ever dyed the sides of head rests ? im wondering if its possible to do so it looks original from light grey to black, is it vinyl or leather ?

these IS grey, changing them to black like the darker check ones, either a vinyl dye or paint of some sort like a leather paint

[jimbom30cab]

looks great

[polsta]

looks great that, just looking on ebay, there are a few vinyl "dyes" and "colorant" but im thinking a thin liquid would be too tricky as it would run, its doing the piping and the piping side near the cloth on the inner edge , then i using a spray, would it be easy to mask and spray it in a way it does the piping properly

or im thinking a thicker paint ?

or there are these touch up pen things , ie for the piping

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Leather-Vinyl ... 3a7df3b2e3

theres this paint

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/100-ACID-FREE ... 4ac1f6996a

or angelus leather paint

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Angelus-Leath ... 3cc58def77

[polsta]

hmmm interesting, reckon thats do-able ? sounds like a ball ache and to get it back together looking like how it was ?

another option jim has said - to dye the whole seats black- pure black cloth sports seats, no ones ever done/got ?

[Gavla]

The sides are vinyl, kolorbond.co.uk

[Rav335uk]

hmmm interesting, reckon thats do-able ? sounds like a ball ache and to get it back together looking like how it was ?

another option jim has said - to dye the whole seats black- pure black cloth sports seats, no ones ever done/got ?

It is a ballache , as the headrests have piping, and that MUST be 100%

[pacerpete]

Why not just buy the correct IS style seats with the black vinyl sides ? The cloth is darker and nicer as an added bonus

[B7]

What he said. A waste of time.

[polsta]

gave them a good shampoo scrub and hose today, they have came up excellent and look very nice, not that much difference in these and the darker really cloth wise, but reason i go them as they are pretty much perfect bar a small drivers bolster hole , and structuraly sound and rear head rests and £80 local , a pair of paint splattered darker ones sold for that recently with no rear bench, they are getting harder to find nice ones these days

[pacerpete]

Silver grey is nasty, that is why it is cheap. This is what you want, they look better now that I have cleaned them

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/261179505382? ... 1555.l2649

[magpie]

noice seats Peter....

as said the silver ones are nasty and are considerably lighter in colour compared to the DARK check ones .

my lovely "dark check" 318is seats complete with rear headrests will be going in my loft until i wish to sell them Pete

check em oot

[polsta]

yeah pete £750 vs £80.....

the grey arnt nasty definatly not, they look decent to be fair and the check shade isnt that much different, and with the right door cards will look great in a car,more so if it has a grey carpet, il post pics tomorrow they look super after a clean up

is there also a lighter grey than these ? these are a darker normal sort of grey as opposed to a real light grey

[polsta]

just had a look on th wiki, appears not, anthrazit,silber, indigo