black headliner, visors, etc

urbex · Post by **urbex** » 29 Aug 2011, 19:14

I'm sure this has been covered a hundred times, but searching for it is coming up with nothing...probably not using the right search terms....

Anyways...seems all the 850s came with tan headiners/visors/overhead lights/grab handles/etc, regardless of interior color. I thought mine was just a half finished interior swap until I saw the dozen or so 850s in the junkyard with black seats/console and tan stuff overhead. It's one of those things that has annoyed me from day one about the car.

The headliner needs to be replaced anyways, and that will be an easy change with just a different color material, but short of painting/dying the rest of the existing parts, are there black pieces available to match the rest of the interior, perhaps parts from the X70s? If it really came down to it, I wouldn't mind so much using that interior spray paint stuff for the visors and grab handles (even though it won't look right), but I really hate to do that to the map lights part, as it will cover the factory lettering and I think that ends up looking cheesy.

Post by **JRL** » 29 Aug 2011, 20:00

Nope, they're all tan
You will have to make it up custom
Charcoal alcantera (ultra suede) looks great!

urbex · Post by **urbex** » 29 Aug 2011, 20:18

I thought about that, but I've had suede in other vehicles, and it always seemed like it's just as much of a nightmare to keep clean as the cloth stuff, not to mention the cost. For a headliner, I'm ok with the cheap material up there, lol. Honestly, if it wasn't for the weight, I'd cover it in marine vinyl (one of my upholstery buddies showed me some stuff last year that looked and felt exactly like leather, but at a fraction of the cost)...same reason I hate cloth seats in vehicles - near impossible for me to keep it clean, whereas the leather is a piece of cake