# I Feel Like "Dying" **URL:** \ **Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\ **Created:** [March 30, 2011, 1:32am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/i-feel-like-dying/63150 "2011-03-30T01:32:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gudenteit](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/gudenteit/32/3004_2.png) [@gudenteit](https://community.cartalk.com/u/gudenteit)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 1:32am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/i-feel-like-dying/63150/1 "2011-03-30T01:32:05Z")
I have a dark green Buick Century with a tan interior I don’t care for. Might a body shop be able to dye the leather, vinyl, and cloth headliner dark green for me? (I don’t have the patience to do this myself( ---
**Author:** ![Tester](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/tester/32/15976_2.png) [@Tester](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Tester)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 1:34am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/i-feel-like-dying/63150/2 "2011-03-30T01:34:40Z")
You can have anything done to a vehicle. it depends how much $$$$$$ you want to spend. Tester ---
**Author:** ![gudenteit](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/gudenteit/32/3004_2.png) [@gudenteit](https://community.cartalk.com/u/gudenteit)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 1:36am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/i-feel-like-dying/63150/3 "2011-03-30T01:36:29Z")
Thanks for the instant reply. Might you know a ballpark figure for this sort of service? ---
**Author:** ![common-sense-answer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/common-sense-answer/32/716_2.png) [@common-sense-answer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/common-sense-answer)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 1:39am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/i-feel-like-dying/63150/4 "2011-03-30T01:39:16Z")
Buy Some Sunglasses. Body Shops don’t dye upholstery. You don’t even list a model-year, but you’d be better off buying some of the interior (chairs, etcetera) from a salvage yard Buick cadaver with a more pleasing color than trying to change the color of your interior. CSA ---
**Author:** ![Goldwing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@Goldwing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Goldwing)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 3:43am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/i-feel-like-dying/63150/5 "2011-03-30T03:43:50Z")
Buy seat covers. ---
**Author:** ![pleasedodgevan2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ad7895/32.png) [@pleasedodgevan2](https://community.cartalk.com/u/pleasedodgevan2)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 4:20am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/i-feel-like-dying/63150/6 "2011-03-30T04:20:25Z")
Tint the back windows to reduce the brightness of the interior. I hate light colored interiors. There is just too much sunlight. ---
**Author:** ![ok4450](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ok4450](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ok4450)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 5:33am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/i-feel-like-dying/63150/7 "2011-03-30T05:33:06Z")
My vote is for the salvage yard if this issue is really that important to you. With most collisions the interior is generally intact unless it’s a broadside hit. I’ve used leather dye in the past on antique motorcycle seats and have not been real impressed with the results. There’s a certain subtle blotchiness to it and after a couple of years some of it will still smudge off. You could check with an auto upholstery shop about this though. (For what it’s worth I’m not a fan of tan either, especially the lighter shades.) ---
**Author:** ![lion9car](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/59ef9b/32.png) [@lion9car](https://community.cartalk.com/u/lion9car)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 4:09pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/i-feel-like-dying/63150/8 "2011-03-30T16:09:52Z")
If this is even possible, I’d be worried about the dye coming off on wet light-colored clothing. ---
**Author:** ![bscar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bscar/32/34_2.png) [@bscar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bscar)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2011, 12:14am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/i-feel-like-dying/63150/9 "2011-03-31T00:14:47Z")
No real idea, but call around and ask. Depending on price, it might be better trying to find a car with an interior you like than redoing your current ride ---
**Author:** ![gudenteit](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/gudenteit/32/3004_2.png) [@gudenteit](https://community.cartalk.com/u/gudenteit)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2011, 1:15am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/i-feel-like-dying/63150/10 "2011-03-31T01:15:15Z")
Thanks for all the replies. I guess it’s true, we do get set in our ways when we get older; I’ll be 63 this June. Most of my cars in my life have looked good to me. And for the past 11 years until last Fall, I had a car with a beautiful deep, rich blue interior and exterior, which is what attracted me to the car. I was so accustomed to having cars in appealing colors, but tan interior doesn’t appeal to me. When I was 18 and got my first car, an old one, as a birthday/graduation gift it had a tan interior, but it looked beautiful to me, my first set of wheels! But in my “old age”, I’m fussy, I guess…