Fabric/Vinyl PAINT/DYE for seat/headliner recommendations

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phogroian

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I have a 1964 Valiant with a light turquoise exterior and tan interior- an odd combination. I'm looking for a blue/turquoise color scheme for the interior... I'll need to treat the door panels, dashboard, sun visors, (cloth, suspended) headliner, and cloth/vinyl seats. There is no carpet so I'll buy that new in the chosen color.
The headliner is in fairly good shape and I'd rather dye it than remove it and install a new reproduction. The seats are the original "200" level vinyl with tan fabric panels. I'd like to apply dye or paint, preferably with a brush, that will soak in evenly, not readily fade in sunlight, not stiffen the fabric, and will not crack/rub off.
Has anyone used a product that they recommend? For the vinyl parts of the door panels and seats, I was thinking of using Duplicor's vinyl paint or VHT's vinyl dye (spray paint/dyes).
For the fabric seats and headliner, I was afraid that those products would hide the fabric, go on too thick, and make the fabric inflexible. I was thinking of useing "Simply Spray" upholstery fabric paint, or one of the products offered by the Dharma Trading company (they sell many types of fabric dyes). obviously, these fabrics are already installed so tub dying is out of the question.
It's a lot of work, so I'd like to do it right.
Thanks!
 
I've had good luck with SEM vinyl spray products but have never used them on cloth. I've also used some from Herbs parts, http://www.herbsparts.com/products.asp?cat=823 It's there own brand that I don't who there supplier might be but it's also good stuff. They have a color chart on the website too.
Good luck.....
 
I just went to my local autozone they had some vinyl paint and it worked good, changed from red to grey with minor bleed through only had to respray a few spots.
 
I used SEM on '66 Valiant arm rests and door panels, the Landau black was as close a match as I could have hoped for. I also used the Duplicolor black on a few things which worked well but was too glossy, it was really shiny. The SEM looked like the original.
I recommend testing out on a few small pieces like armrest pads before hand.
There are a number of previous posts on this and how important the before paint prep is.

I'm not sure Mopaint is still around but they had 12oz spray cans on all the early A interior colors. I thinks Herbs has some interior mopar paints.

Not sure about fabrics like headliner & fabric seat inserts.

Hope this helps.
 
SEM color coat vinyl paint. Get the paint adhesion can as well. Worked fantastic on my seat backs, door handles, kick panels and console. Not sure how it would do on something large like a headliner considering it's spray cans.
 
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