Automotive Interior Repair with The Interior Guy

I Just got this email from one of my suppliers today and thought I’d pass this little jewel onto to you my readers. I’ve got one of these and if your into airbrushing and art of any sort then an image projector is an awesome little tool to add. Read the rest of this entry »

Well that time of year is here again. The cold weather has arrived and here we go with trying to get our automotive water based dyes to dry in a reasonable amount of time.

Painting in temperatures less then 40 degrees makes it almost impossible to yield a perfect repair without a little preparation first.

The first and foremost thing is to heat up the area where the repair is being made. Now the best way to do this is with a hairdryer, not your heat gun. This will heat the area just enough to make it easier to work with and not damage the area any further (like a hole in vinyl getting larger due to to much heat being put to it).  Heating the area will also help your compounds work like their supposed to along with giving you a warmer surface for the dye to stick to helping in curing time. Read the rest of this entry »

Heat guns have got to be one the most used tools in my business. I use them for heating my repairs on a daily basis, whether it be a vinyl repair, a leather repair, melting plastic when needed, or just heating up a piece prior to repair.  Having the correct heat gun to do these repairs is crucial to your success.

If a heat gun breaks down while your doing a repair it can cost you time and money in the long run. So Read the rest of this entry »

I get questions on occasion on whether seat covers are needed to keep a cars leather seats looking new. This is one question that I have to ask a question back before I can give a truthful answer.

” Are you going to leave them on all the time? ”

If they answer is yes then I have to say that their seat probably won’t look new when they take them off say a year or two from now. Read the rest of this entry »

I get into so many autos that the buttons on the radio are peeling off and what your left with are white buttons that just look awful. At night it can be at the least distracting. Have you seen one of those? Well Viper Products has done it again and has come up with a fix for those peeling buttons. Its a two part film. A translucent film and a black film with cut outs for the lettering. All you do is sand the peeling radio button to give you a smooth surface to put the film onto. Prep, then lay the film over the radio button and heat it to reform the coating to button. The lights from the radio still shine through the lettering and the finished product looks, as Viper Products always does, factory. Read the rest of this entry »

I used my new heat tool today and WOW what a little wonder this thing is. It looks like a weapon from Star Wars and you have heat control, pinpoint control. This is probably got to be the neatest heat gun I’ve ever purchased, and really it’s not a conventional heat gun but an ultra torch equipped with a pistol grip fan motor. Read the rest of this entry »

Your as good as the products you use…Have you been searching for the right automotive interior products to get the job done right the first time? I know I have. I have been in the automotive interior repair business for a long time and have used a lot of different interior products in my repairs. I have used different water based dyes and leather repair compounds from different suppliers with so many different results, some good and some really bad. I have over the years learned one thing and that is your only as good as what products you use. If the products you use to do a repair fail then you fail. It doesn’t matter if it looked good when you left, it has to last. Why would someone call you back to do another repair for them if the job you did before didn’t last or looked like your kids did it. Well they wouldn’t. You have to have the top of the line products that you can stand behind and for lack of better words, guarantee. Read the rest of this entry »