meem

your ex sounds like a real piece of work.

Qu!cksilva

but I have the majority of what I need from a salvage car if all goes to plan.

I know that my grey interior was painte with some kind of rubber finish from the factory...I wonder if something like that is availble to the consumer?
For the little parts I dont handle much it might be a cost effective way to go. If I can match the black

meem

personally, i wouldn't put labor into installing parts on my car that weren't flawless, so unless that salvage car was exceptionally well maintained, those plastics wouldn't cut it for me (plus it's so easy to damage parts trying to remove 'em.)

sorry, don't know about the rubberized stuff. my primary concern was oem quality, so i went with the oem parts.

meem

that plastic trim piece around the rear window gets scratched up pretty easily, and it's blood money too ($200+ iirc from having replaced it *four* times now). wrapping it in alcantara would both mask the original color and solve the scratching problem, plus it would look nice too :-) next time mine gets scratched, i'll probably wrap it rather than call the parts department.

Qu!cksilva

I dont anticipate the parts being any worse than what I have existing...

meem

i don't have much free time these days and i don't want to waste it tearing the car apart more than i have to. used parts tend to have problems that lead to me having to do something more than once -- so i'll pay the premium for new.

Qu!cksilva

Plus I will have fabric that matches throughout so reworking my rearseat delete in matching fabric will look so much better as should the speaker enclosure