2015 Full leather interior build

[57buick]

Like everybody else I can't understand why Dodge put tan colored interior from the pillars up so I aim to fix that!

I just so happened ot have a large box of red and black leather I had bought for a hot rod a couple years ago that never got finished so I decided to use it on my truck.

I started by pulling ou the pain in the ass headliner. Had to remove all the seats and trim to squeeze it out the right rear door. It was tight but it came out. sewed the red and black leather together for a nice red racing strip down the middle lol That's the way I ordered my leather seat covers so it would look nice with the headliner

 

[57buick]

leather glued and trimmed

 

[Pneed38]

That is going to o be awesome!! Can't wait to see the final product!!

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[crazykid1994]

Damn. If I ever get the chump change to go black interior maybe I'll do custom leather wrap. Sure it'll be a pretty penny but that looks awesome


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[HEMI_Finn]

Looks Great! What cab is this? I would love to make my interior all black.

 

[57buick]

headliner reinstalled

 

[57buick]

Looks Great! What cab is this? I would love to make my interior all black.

Mine is a crew cab

 

[57buick]

I even wrapped the center overhead console with black leather. Let me tell you that was a little tricky. Some tight tolerances. You can see the seam where it mounts to headliner is a little wavy, a lot more noticeable in picture than it actually is just need to keep working it

 

[57buick]

So local kid works at Dodge dealer. Someone smashed a bunch of windshields so insurance replaced th windshields and on most of the replaced the dash too because of a little dirt scuff.

So I scored a brand new leather stitched dash from him for $300 and swapped my plastic dash for the leather one. Looks pretty sweet. I was wishing I could find a REBEL dash with the red stitching but this is still way better than plastic

 

[57buick]

the leather and contrast stitching looks good. And it only took about 2 hours to swap the dash. Wasn't as bad as I thought it would be

 

[57buick]

So next I started thinking I would vinyl wrap some of the dash pieces in red vinyl. The question though is on the center bezel around hvac controls and radio you have both grey and black. SO I started looking at it and took it apart.

I realized the grey parts are plastic welded to the rest of the frame of the bezel.

Took a grinder and ground all those grey plastic bumps off and the pieces separated making it much easier to wrap them and get nice tight seams to contrast against the black.

 

[57buick]

Once I wrapped the red vinyl I went to hardware and store and got some screws that were the right diameter and very short like 3\8 long and screwed them into those gray posts that I grinded to separate the pieces. It worked perfect! It held the pieces back together nice and tight.

The finished result was nice looking seams between the red and black! Looks sweet

I have a couple little spots and defects but I think it looks pretty good considering. This was my first time doing any interior upholstery or vinyl wrapping so give me a break LOL

 

[57buick]

the air vents were even easier, they come apart very easily and wrapped those bezels too

 

[Avgas]

Nice score on the dash!

 

[57buick]

on Ebay I scored some Rebel door panels for the rear. They look awesome straight from the factory. All I did to them was add the USB port for the kids to charge their phones into the front of the pocket

 

[57buick]

Now I need to find some front REBEL door panels at a reasonable price. I refuse to pay $600 or $700 for stupid door panels. I scored the rears for $140 shipped. The only other ones I've found they wanted $750!!

 

[57buick]

Nice score on the dash!

I know right! Just have to be patient and keep looking every day until the right part comes along

 

[57buick]

I've been driving with a longhorn speedo for a while because it was cheap because it was in KPH instead of MPH it was from Canada. Plus the gold trim did not go with the color of the interior very well.

Luckily US Speedo is now making replacement faces for the gauges. unfortunately they did not have red yet so I chose some silver ones so now my speedo shows MPH like its supposed to. I can't wait till they start making red ones.

 

[57buick]

because of the handles I knew I could not wrap the pillars myself because it would involve stitching and sewing. So I had a local upholstery shop do the pillars. They came out pretty nice

 

[Galadaeros]

Your build is amazing so far. Can't wait to see it finished.

Hopefully those Rebel door panels crop up soon!