<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by HummBob:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Did you black out the whole interior? If so, did you do it all yourself and how much did it cost you. I really like the ebony interior but I don't know if I want to buy a new rig just to get it. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
I had the same deal. I bought my truck in the fall of 04 BEFORE I SAW the Ebony interior. After putting a couple of grand in customizations into my rig, there was no way I was going to trade it in on an 05 just for the interior(but I loved the interior)and lose $20,000 in the trade. Anyways a customer of mine owns a company called PDR(paintless dent removal) and I happened to be telling him my dilema. Turns out his company has a guy who goes to dealerships and does vinyl/leather repair. He used the same product(not sure what it's called right now) to dye every piece of my wheat interior. Looks awesome. Charged me $2100 CDN including dye and labor(alot of labor). We did this in March, and it still looks BRAND NEW! I've known this customer for 15 years so he gave me a LIFETIME warranty, in case any of the dye/paint comes off.
Here is where the story kinda sucks a bit. I ordered the black replacement seat covers from a place in British Columbia(where DennisAJC is from). Anyways after getting the covers, they looked like ****, so my interior guy boxed up my original wheat ones and sent them to this company. They were SUPPOSED to unseam the OEM covers and make an exact template, while sewing the front heaters into the new covers. Luckily I got to keep the ones they sent me till they were done. Anyways, they had them for 3 months and nothing was done. They kept giving me stories and excuses so I finally told them to credit my AMEX, or I would call AMEX and get it credited. I received my refund and just ordered the factory OEM covers from
http://www.trademotion.com/partlocat...?siteid=214079
for $1500 US including shipping. Dave is the guy I deal with and he's AWESOME.
Unfortunately GM is backordered on one of the covers(rear drivers side) so I haven't been able to FINISH my truck yet. I have all of the other covers sitting in the back of one of my stores waiting for this last cover as my interior guy wants to wait till they are all here as he is changing my headliner to black, but he wants to remove all of the seats to do so. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>Wow!!! thanks for sharing that info. I would like to do the same but I hope I don't run into any probelems if I do.