Re: binnacle recover in NJ

["silverdelorean2002" <silvercrw646@xxxx>]

Thanks Kevin for the compliments. Hopefully I will see you at Daves 
house the next time you come down. I coudnt make it last time. As the 
interior. What I did was dissasemble the entire interior of my car. 
When i got my car it was severely sun damaged. IT was all faded and 
burnt and looked like crap. If you notice most interiors on deloreans 
have faded intereriors. Even ones that werent in the sun all that 
long. Take a look at the different panels in the interior such as the 
color of the binnacle and the dash for example. You can see the 
difference in the gray colors. MOst of the time the gray turns 
brownish over time. In almost every delorean I have seen with grady 
interiors the grady parts of the interior dont match each other. Now 
for what I did. I took every panel out of my interior. The kneepads 
the ccenter console, the glove compartment, seats, carpets, dash, 
binaccle, rear armrest pads etc. There was nothing left in my car 
excpet of bunch of wires.(it was scary) After everything was out I 
had time to inspect the panels and compared the colors of gray in 
all. Everyone was a different color gray. Reason is because different 
types of vinyl were used on the panels and they fade differntly over 
time. It was hard to get a color match of the gray. Now for the dye. 
I went seaching the archives for somone else who dyed a part in their 
car. I noticed one guy who said that Plasti-kote 408 was a spot on 
match and that Plasti-kote not like other dyes will not chip or peel 
or crack. I didnt believe it so i went and bought a can and dyed one 
piece. It looked great and the gray matched exactly to orginal gray 
of teh binnacle when you order a new one from DMC houston. THe next 
test was to see if it cracked or peeled. I waited a day even though 
it dries in 10 mins. I tried scratching and peeling it it it woudnt 
come off. Its great stuff. The key is to CLEAN the vinyl with hot 
water and detergent and get off any armor-all or crud or oils off of 
the panels or the dye wont work. After that spray around 5 LIGHT 
coats of dye and wait til it dries. I did that for every part of my 
car. It now looks better than new. If anyone wants i can put before 
and after pictures up on the web. Let me know if anyones interested. 
Thanks again kevin.

Jon