Thursday 7 June 2012

The interior pimp-up

When i got my landy, the condition of the interior was as expected - old and tired, but it wasn't as bad.
A little ( a lot actually ) works and efforts was expected to put to make it looks better and comfortable.
So the past few weekends' project was to pimp up the interior as comfortable as it can be..


Check list 1. Gotta pimp those door panels.
The door panals looked old and colour faded. There's even one with discolouration. Not sure it was replaced before, or just faded over the years. Planned to spray paint them as I was going to spray paint the trimming as well, but thinking I might as well use 3M carbon stickers to cover the whole thing,
making it looks new. Save the sand-papering. It was done over 2 nights and the outcome :

Added in some carpet trimming for a more modern looks.


Check list 2. Gotta pimp up the dashboard.
If you have been in a defender before, you'll have the idea. The dashboard of a typical defender is, simple, and simple it is. It's so simple that you even wonder if the LR Silhoul facility actually built them with craps that they found in scrapyards. It's so simple that if you'd like to fit an audio in, you'll have to buy a box like house to fit in, or build yourself one - then figure out where you wanna fit it!
 And Air-conditional Was Optional!!

So there's a lot to do after taking it aparts:
1. Re-painting the parts suh as ashtray, heater air vent, console panels.
2. Clean up, servicing, painting the gauge rings in silver and fitting in new LED bulbs.  
3. Sound/heat proofing the bulkhead from the inside, with polymoulds stole I got from work.
4. A lot of water-proofing silicone works!
5. Building a centre console and fit in a LCD audio, reverse camera coming soon.
6. Building an aircon duct to re-route it from passaanger side to the middle, TD5 style.
7. Redo wiring as musch as I can.
8. Fix or try to fix anything broken, including the arm-rest console, Mcgyever style!

Taking all apart !!

  Dashboard re-painted. Centre console and aircon duct on it's way.


Check list 3. Gotta redo the interior triming:
So far for this I have done:
1. Taken out interior panals and re-painting them in gray.
2. Refitting the front and 2nd roll passanger seats.
3. Carpetting (half way done)
4. New padels.

What I've gotten so far..




To be added in soon are:
- Roof console for the fuses to move in, and to fit in radio.
- Momo steering
- Waiting for my reverse camera
- More spound-proofing and carpeting.
- Re-check the water ingress of the roofing, fill any gap found with putty/sillicon.

Mmm that's about it. Stay tuned.

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