Interior overhaul - murdered out (ongoing)

I painted the interior of my 07 Sport 4runner black using SEM color coat. It already had black seats due to it being a sport model but it turned out great! Will post pics later but I did my lower dash kick panel, glove box, door cards, console, rear panels, basically everything from the bottom of the windows down.

 

How is it holding up? That's my biggest concern with painting the interior. I would like to keep this truck for a longtime so durability matters a lot. Also, did you spend a lot of time prepping and how did you prep it for paint? Any clear coat?

 

So far so good. Rubbing your shoe on it won’t take it off but if you took a screwdriver to it, it would come off. For prep I scrubbed with dish soap and a green scotchbrite pad (which also scuffed the surface). Then rinse and dry in the sun. I didn’t use the SEM adhesion promoter, just used Rustoleum adhesion promoter since it’s way cheaper. One coat of that and a handful of coats of SEM color coat. No clear coat on top.

 

Any update on the interior?

 

Been slammed up with bicycle projects. Been nice and hot lately, maybe some time this week I can get around to at least tidying up the floor liner. Couple chips in high traffic areas on the console, particularly on the smooth plastic of the shift bezel. I'll probably just touch them up and see if it was just a couple spots poorly prepped, and if they still chip up, re-do them with a different adhesion promoter.

 

Well, about a year later and I figured I'd update.

Definitely chipping/marring on the high traffic areas. They look like they would be easy enough to touch up, and I probably will when I gut out the factory inverter to put in a DC power center. I think if you were not using your truck as hard as I am, it would be fine, but if you're tossing heavy/odd shit in through the door, dragging stuff across the console, and stuffing the passenger floor and seat with gear on a regular basis, it won't look great forever. Better off finding some factory black interior pieces or living with the grey.

 

Thanks for posting this update. SEM puts out quality products, but at the end of the day it is just paint on plastic. Yours looked great. My biggest concerns is using the truck for truck stuff, like you mentioned. Only reason I never pulled the trigger.

Guess I'll just spruce up the door pulls and door card armrests with some accent pleather/leather and call it a day. Have black Clazzios to match like you started with, and I'm finally getting to interior mod focus time too.

 

I'm considering wrapping the console body in black vinyl (not the self-adhesive "wrap" stuff, actual upholstery vinyl) and sourcing a black shifter bezel from a 12-15. I'll update if I do.

 

Picked up a 2.5gen surround and climate control for cheap. Did some microsurgery to make the faceplate off the climate control to make it fit my existing - the top tabs don't line up so I got after them with a scalpel and swearing until they did. I wanted to keep the silver knob surrounds to match the hazard.

 

That seems like a lot of work when you can just order all of the console parts in black. Photo below of my new console parts for a project I have going on.

 

Buddy you're not gonna believe it. I have a black console sitting in my garage waiting for me to reupholster the dog deck. That SEM did not hold up to Truck Stuff, so not only was it a lot of work, it cost money and the result wasn't good enough.

I'll post some pics and an update on the SEM when I get there.

 

Yeah, SEM is ok for trim that isn't coming into contact a lot with other objects but I would never use it for lower trim like console or door panels. Maybe like an upper console on the roof or around the instrument gauges is ok for SEM stuff.

 

Ok, we are finally crawling back to this project.

I have had a cargo/dog deck in the back of this Access Cab made of a bunch of crap I had laying around at the time. It has been that way temporarily for the last 9 years.

It was a bunch of manky 3/4" plywood scrap, an old yoga mat, and some outdoor carpet remnant, and after sitting on the materials to do so for two years, I am finally underway.

Old deck:


3/8" ply, 50x25":


Salvaged the old yoga mat, glued it down with Super77, rolled it with a deepwell socket and bodyweight, and trimmed edges:


Flock-back marine vinyl, super77 and a few temporary staples. The vinyl has some creases that I want to try to get out, so I'll let it cook in the truck until a few things for the rear wall upholstery show up (new c-pillar trim clips - I finally removed the rear seatbelts that have been doing nothing but clunk around and catch on cargo for 9 years) and then give it a re-stretch and a good staple. I'll also be putting some aluminum 90 on the outboard edges for extra durability when slinging shit in and out of the truck. You can see the creases pretty well in this lighting:


And here it is with the front legs put back on and slapped back in. Nothing holding it in right now but gravity, but it will be fine for a few days:

 

Sick. I've always been interested in turning my "backseat" into something more useful

 

Got the rear wall section together and upholstered. Its by no means perfect (or done) but its a nice checkpoint in the project.


Black marine upholstery vinyl over 1" marine upholstery foam. (Marine grade is redneck aerospace.)

The upper corners kinda look like ass on the outboard edges because the geometry there was pretty complex, and I have no idea what I'm doing. They'll be covered by trim (waiting on materials) and there is a lot of detail work to do yet, but overall this is already 1000% better than it was.

 

I've really gotta start looking into changing my backseat to a better pet area.

 

Well, the upholstery is finished at least. I have some special order brass M8s coming for the two fasteners that go to the wall.



MLV hung behind:

 

I was taking some measurements so I had the C-pillars off again anyway, and I found the pile of Noico boxes that have been waiting for me to get around to this. The rear wall and factory cubby floors have a 100% Noico 80mil/100% Noico Red layer on them that reaches around the rear corners. (Done previously, documented somewhere in the bowels of TW - https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/access-cab-noise-reduction-process.742121/#post-26419537)



I threw down some strategic 80mil on the interior of the C pillars, being very careful to think about and give much leeway to the safety systems in those locations. It was tedious but using a semiround trim removal tool I was able to get good pressure on everything I did put down.

I've never had a chunk of this stuff bust loose or rattle if you make sure to make sure you get enough pressure on everything to lose the diamond texture on the foil.

I then lined the C-pillar trim with the Noico red, awkwardly, from inside the truck instead of walking them the 11 seconds to a clear, well lit workbench.



I learned a lot on the first one, had a working method by the start of the second (feeling how the foam actually fit all the curves I had been eyeballing), and will hopefully never further refine the process.



I also used some scrap upholstery vinyl and blanked out the seatbelt holes (upper slot/lower bolt). They're just ahered to the foam, and I made sure there were good margins where there needed to be.



Not bad for killing time waiting on parts.

(Note from future self - the sound deadening thread is here - https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/access-cab-noise-reduction-process.742121/#post-26419537 )