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Old 4th February 2017, 10:02 AM
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I really do not like my current interior (cream)
That's a shame; as you know my car is the same colour as yours in and out.
Coming from a Grey (Agate) with Platinum predecessor, which I really liked, I wasn't sure about the cream, though I loathe black interiors.
But over time I've realised it goes very well with the paint colour and I've grown to like it.

Your dash is presumably a boring grey-brown colour. If you want it darker why not investigate having it fully leather trimmed, which can probably be done in situ (with the "wood" trim removed of course). There are a handful of cars like that and it looks superb.

The "wood" trims can of course be replaced without huge difficulty. Some people have I think carbon-wrapped them but that (to me) seems inappropriate for this car.
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Old 4th February 2017, 10:05 AM
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Possibly a silly suggestion, but if you stripped the interior and maybe the windscreen could you recolour the existing dash in situ?

https://www.furnitureclinic.co.uk/Ho..._Car_Seats.php

I have done seats before, the product works on vinyl and a dash will be a very low wear area compared to the seats so I can't see why it wouldn't work - maybe just change the lowers, glovebox etc?
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Old 4th February 2017, 10:24 AM
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The lowers/transmission, glovebox etc. would be leather anyway, unless it's a poverty spec interior.

Colouring leather certainly works, I've done it on mine (mainly seat refurbishment), though only actually changed one small item. I recoloured the handbrake grip (and that does get wear/use) from muddy grey to cream - to match the seats etc.
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Finally: gone, but not forgotten.....
1998 D2 PF S8. AgateGrey/Platinum. Every option (I think) except electric rear seats, tiptronic steering wheel, ski hatch, towbar & dimming door mirrors.
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1998 (very early) Ford Focus 1.8 Zetec; ABS/TCS, Heated screen/mirrors, Aircon, Auto-dim mirror, Leather, Trip computer, Cruise control, OEM Ford SatNav with CD changer.
And before that a lot of Rover 800s, a few oddities, a lovely Triumph Dolomite 1850HL with Overdrive and way back in my schooldays an Austin Seven aka Mini 850!
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Old 4th February 2017, 11:27 AM
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I used a kit from the supplier above to recolour an MX5 interior including door cards from beige to red, it was well worn with cracks and even a small tear - was like new when done and still looked like that when I sold three years later!

I made a profit on that car, much of which was due to the time spent on the interior

But if it can take the wear from being sat on in jeans, a dash should be fine!
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Old 5th February 2017, 08:07 AM
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Nice recommendation! I've just ordered some of their leather recolour balm to see if I can get my seats back to black.

Not a fan of the cream/platinum interior myself.
In my line of work they get grubby far too quickly.
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The consequence of all this complication is the risk of rattles afterwards, and especially in the case of the D2, breaking something because of the crazy hand-tooled construction.
Very true! Everything on these cars are far from straight forward.

It may be easier to sell this and buy another with a different interior but I've spent so much on the maintenance side recently that it's money down the drain in the sense I'm not getting any use out of it and might need the same jobs doing on the next one ( all suspension arms and full timing belt done, brakes)
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Old 5th February 2017, 11:38 AM
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Your dash is presumably a boring grey-brown colour. If you want it darker why not investigate having it fully leather trimmed, which can probably be done in situ (with the "wood" trim removed of course). There are a handful of cars like that and it looks superb.
Yes, exactly that colour which I think is the same as yours.

I had thought about a flocked or leather wrapped dash but would it need to be removed anyway? If like you say they can be done in situ then I will look into this.
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Possibly a silly suggestion, but if you stripped the interior and maybe the windscreen could you recolour the existing dash in situ?

https://www.furnitureclinic.co.uk/Ho..._Car_Seats.php

I have done seats before, the product works on vinyl and a dash will be a very low wear area compared to the seats so I can't see why it wouldn't work - maybe just change the lowers, glovebox etc?
This is interesting - I would never have thought about this on vinyl
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I am pretty sure the dash comes as a separate shell from the metal extrusion it is attached to. The ones I looked at on ebay seem to be without extrusion and are fairly cheap, quite a few under £200. Then again I am looking for a LHD version on German ebay.
When I was looking for my car I had more important criteria (manual, no sunroof, body colour and sound engine) and had to compromise on the interior. I dont mind cream interiors when well maintained, but I really don't like the way Audi did their D2 cream interior with the top part and dash being a muddy brown colour. They should have taken a lesson from Jag cream interiors which are much more nicely matched. So in my case that brown colour dash just has to go, I just have to be very careful fitting the next dash to make it look neat.
I thought about re-colouring and even got a professional spray, but to my mind Audi's soft touch plastics are very well made with an expensive look especially in a D2, re-spraying would just not look the same in my opinion.
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I really don't like the way Audi did their D2 cream interior with the top part and dash being a muddy brown colour.
I'm with you there, but there may be some issues due to windscreen reflections that resulted in the colour we're stuck with?
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Finally: gone, but not forgotten.....
1998 D2 PF S8. AgateGrey/Platinum. Every option (I think) except electric rear seats, tiptronic steering wheel, ski hatch, towbar & dimming door mirrors.
e.g. Cruise control, NavPlus/TV, Bose, GSM, Xenons, Solar roof, Parking sensors, Alcantara/leather everywhere of course. (internal dimming mirror added later)
1998 (very early) Ford Focus 1.8 Zetec; ABS/TCS, Heated screen/mirrors, Aircon, Auto-dim mirror, Leather, Trip computer, Cruise control, OEM Ford SatNav with CD changer.
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