D-Stew
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I'll start by saying I hate the white trim. Just gets dirty too easily and nothing else on the truck is white. No idea why Tesla decided to run with it as the limited edition foundation option. If you wrap your truck white, ok I get it then making for a complete look, other than that, I'm not a fan.
I've been wanting to replace mine since well day 1. Finally, I bit the bullet and did it myself. My truck has a matte grey PPF wrap. and I wanted to bring that color inside. So I took a swatch of that grey wrap and went to an upholstery shop to try and find a fabric that was a close match to that shade of grey. I really wanted Alcantara which is a high-end type of suede, just like what the pillars and roof liner are made of in black from the factory.
With that, the upholstery shop had a grey Alcantara that was pretty dang close in the shade I wanted. That fabric wasn't cheap at all, bought 3 yards at $180 a yard. It's the real deal from Italy. Far cheaper fabrics are available for anyone who wants to do this themselves.
The next step was figuring out how to remove the panels, luckily was very easy, all just pressure clipped on, including main dash panel. Just pull essentially. The white trim was glued down really tight to the underplastic frame for all. So decided to leave the white trim on and contact cement the Alcantara directly over it. If I removed the white trim it would have been a nightmare to smooth out the factory plastic frame underneath. A very timely headache that potentially could end disastrous, so decided not to go down that path.
The hardest part was the door trim. The black top vinyl panel is plastic welded onto the lower white panel with the ambient light sandwiched in-between. Thus you have to cut those plastic welds to separate in order to re-upholster the white portion. The first door panel was trial and error, but figured out the best way to do it for the remaining 3 doors. Once re-upholstered, I then had to plastic weld them back together. Used a plastic staple welder and a little help from my friend JB Qwik weld for additional support.
Very happy with the end result, and YES the ambient lights all still work, and no more white!
I've been wanting to replace mine since well day 1. Finally, I bit the bullet and did it myself. My truck has a matte grey PPF wrap. and I wanted to bring that color inside. So I took a swatch of that grey wrap and went to an upholstery shop to try and find a fabric that was a close match to that shade of grey. I really wanted Alcantara which is a high-end type of suede, just like what the pillars and roof liner are made of in black from the factory.
With that, the upholstery shop had a grey Alcantara that was pretty dang close in the shade I wanted. That fabric wasn't cheap at all, bought 3 yards at $180 a yard. It's the real deal from Italy. Far cheaper fabrics are available for anyone who wants to do this themselves.
The next step was figuring out how to remove the panels, luckily was very easy, all just pressure clipped on, including main dash panel. Just pull essentially. The white trim was glued down really tight to the underplastic frame for all. So decided to leave the white trim on and contact cement the Alcantara directly over it. If I removed the white trim it would have been a nightmare to smooth out the factory plastic frame underneath. A very timely headache that potentially could end disastrous, so decided not to go down that path.
The hardest part was the door trim. The black top vinyl panel is plastic welded onto the lower white panel with the ambient light sandwiched in-between. Thus you have to cut those plastic welds to separate in order to re-upholster the white portion. The first door panel was trial and error, but figured out the best way to do it for the remaining 3 doors. Once re-upholstered, I then had to plastic weld them back together. Used a plastic staple welder and a little help from my friend JB Qwik weld for additional support.
Very happy with the end result, and YES the ambient lights all still work, and no more white!
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