| | | quote | Originally posted by Old Lar:
No way I know of to retain the tweed look as any attempts on dying will dye all the fabric one color. To keep the tweed look carpet ACC carpet offers replacement carpet cut for cars. |
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That is true
IF you're using a dye from the supermarket (or spray paints for that matter) however an acid based carpet dye will indead retain the tweed or variegated color on a nylon fiber carpet.
Please allow me to articulate this again, it was late last night when I posted, probably wasn't writing clearly.
A nylon carpet is dyed after it is woven into a huge roll of carpet called "grey-goods". It looks slightly off-white until it is dipped into a huge vat of hot acid based dye, rung out and dried. It is the designed characteristic of the individual strand(s) as to how much dye it will accept thus the shade of color.
The manufacture will weave a carpet using strands that they know will will accept say 30%, 50% and 80% of the dye that they are dipped into thus giving the variegrated color pattern. The beauty of this is a manufacture can make any pattern of grey-goods and decide on the color anytime later.
The trick on re-dyeing is that the carpet must be clean and your acid based dye must be 160*F or so for a good set, not out of the realm for an industriously ambitious car owner. Pre-mixed automotive dyes (powdered form) are out there but a professional may be a viable choice too.
For the record, interior carpet on the Fiero is nylon based including the door panels, the trunk is olefin, also known as polypropylene or polyethylene which cannot be redyed.
