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Old 03-17-2009, 01:42 AM   #1
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Interior help

today I finally got my door panels from the upholster, also the seats and kick panels are getting covered, but I'm having a hard time figuring out what I should paint, either blue or white that match the door panels or leave it alone
the upholster guy is a furniture upholster, and he didn't want to cover this
the headliner trim
dash
dash bezel
steering wheel
seat belt re tractor cover
sun visor's
diamond plate keep it or change it
and also where should I put the radio, headlight switch, heater switch it the switch that say's summit on it, and wiper switch it look's like the heater switch






and also a speaker box can't decide on it
this is what I have
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Old 03-17-2009, 06:36 PM   #2
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Re: Interior help

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Old 03-17-2009, 06:55 PM   #3
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Re: Interior help

man, tough choices... i'd replace the diamond plating for sure. thinking stock bezel smoothed and painted white and paint the gauge trim rings blue. do away w/ the summit control, (maybe paint blue) and try to get a double din radio,nav,dvd to fit in the old holes. just a thought...
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Old 03-17-2009, 08:12 PM   #4
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get rid of the diamond plate. Get some clean stock parts on the dash and it will look great. I like the door panels.
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Old 03-17-2009, 08:24 PM   #5
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Re: Interior help

weeeell
since you asked I think the diamond plate needs to go too
the polished high class look of the door panels doesn't
fit with the high tech industrial look of the plate in my opinion
too much of a mix of styles

but your truck is unique
built to be what you want
take some time and look at options it will come to you

great truck -doing it your way
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Old 03-17-2009, 08:45 PM   #6
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I would get rid of the diamond plate and go with stock interior parts as well.

I really like the door panels
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Old 03-17-2009, 10:38 PM   #7
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Re: Interior help

thanks guys for the input and compliments , I'm going to fiber glass the dash bezel and paint it white, and I found some plastic paint that match's the white material for the headliner trim, and the factory kick panel's are getting covered in white and I'm thinking about hiding the heater switch, what about wood in place of the diamond plate since my dad does wood work well, and recessing the gauges
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yea the heater switch does kinda stick out

I like the idea of a wood dash with the guages recessed -sweet ... and keying it to the color
of the wood on the seat/ console would look sharp
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Old 03-17-2009, 11:25 PM   #9
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when I was mounting the switch I couldn't make my mind up where I wanted it so that's where it went, so it's going at the bottom of dash by the wiper switch it's the black knob,
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Re: Interior help

I went ahead and painted the headliner trim white and moved the heater switch
before
The trim started off blue then I went with a gloss white then I changed it to a shell white

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Old 03-19-2009, 06:01 AM   #11
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Those look great and i agree to getting red of the diamond plate for stock pieces
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Old 03-19-2009, 11:21 AM   #12
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Yeah get rid of the diamond plate. The billet one from lmc would look sweet and do the brushed aluminum pieces for the other diamond plate areas.
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thanks OARNGESI, what stock pieces do ya"ll mean
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stock bezel and piece that runs along the dash is what i was refering to.
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kick a$$ door panel's flamingbig10. i really like em. how dose it sound with the JBL's .
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stock bezel and piece that runs along the dash is what i was refering to.
I kinda thought thats what you meant
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kick a$$ door panel's flamingbig10. i really like em. how dose it sound with the JBL's .
thanks, the jbl's have a little thump maybe a little more when I build a bigger box , along with Sony 4-Channel 600-Watt Xplod Amplifier, XMZR604R, and a Sony 5x7 in the dash zip tied, and one component box speaker that's older than my truck
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Old 03-21-2009, 04:44 AM   #17
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I thought about it some more, fiber glass the bezel, move the stereo to the factory location and wood trim for the dash
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if you fiber glass the bezel i think that will look cool. i tought about it aswell but i'am going to go ahead and buy the billit aluminum bezel cover and i will be fiber glassing my dash.
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I'd be weary of the wood trim...

Nothing against your dad wood working ability, but the wood trim really doesn't fit the interior at all. Maybe if you stained it jet black and the proper grain pattern showed through, but I think it would be very hard to pull off and make it match the rest of the truck.

For the speaker box, I'd ditch the shelf speakers (obviously) and just fit the subs and amps inside the box and use the kick panels as your mids and plant the tweeters in the dash corners. Maybe you could make a pod for them coming from the a-pillar.

If you're in the mood for new equipment, I may have a box you can use...

EDIT: I just thought of this, what if you could figure out a way to make the wood grain into flames...? how bad ass would that be...?
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the wood trim I'm having second thoughts on, for the box, I was going make one that went to cab corner to cab corner and I'll have make it flat in the middle for the center console/seat
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I believe the seats helped the interior now I need to work on the dash

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hey what size are your subs? 10 or 12?
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Re: Interior help

ditch the trim in the dash completely. It has lines leading to a door panel with nothing on it. Paint the dash to match the white on the door panels, or just have the dash covered in the leather thats on the doors. Smooth a factory dash bezel, and paint it blue. Eliminate all unnecessary things, and get the carpet dyed to match the blue in the seats. And get a new steering wheel wrapped in the same material as the seats/door panels.

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get rid of ***ALL*** diamond plate!

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The diamond plate is gone, I replace diamond with temporary sheet metal until I fiber glass the bezel, I was thinking about painting the dash white or blue to match, because the blue on the dash isn't even close, the carpet almost new so, Evantually I'm going to get carpet that matches
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