Carpets

[HECTOR]

Anyone tried 'touching up'faded carpets.Mine are dark blue and generally colour sound apart from above the rear speakers/below rear of hood and at the seat belt anchors.I've heard they can be real b*****d's to match up if you want to replace them in part only.

[HECTOR]

Touched in the unsightly yellowish faded bits by using permanent ink on a soft rag.Experimented by mixing blue and black ink until correct mixture was acheived,bit nervous applying it but looks the part now - only applicable to blue carpets of course!

[Midnight Blue]

I've got an identical problem with my blue carpets. Which inks did you use, where did you get them and roughly what proportion did mix them in? Your help would be appreciated.

[Tom Lyden]

Going off at a bit of a tangent, but anyone know if you can get just the carpet in the footwells replaced. Water has damaged the carpet in both sides of my griffith, but the rest of it is almost perfect.

[HECTOR]

I am offshore at the moment,will be home tommorrow(16/05) and will have a look for the ink manufacturer and pass it on.The colours looked pretty bog standard blue and black,the bottles were my wife's and were bought a while back but I can't see colour specs.of ink changing that much if they are no longer available.Each bottle had a pipette dropper in it which made mixing dead easy.The mix I settled for was 9 drops of blue to half a drop of black,this does'nt equate to a lot of ink but it does go quite a way and you don't get that much in bottle to start with.I realise this must sound a bit naff but it really does work and as the carpeting fading gradually changes from yellowish back to almost normal blue it blends in perfectly. With regards to footwell carpets try ringing Barry at TVR gear,he contacted the factory and got me a replacement passenger footwell toeboard/battery cover carpet for £25.My car had obviously had a battery acid leak at sometime as bits of carpet had gone red while other bits had disappeared!There must have been a splash onto the transmission tunnel carpet as I found a red patch here which has been disguised perfectly using the ink mix.

[Midnight Blue]

Hector, thanks for the info. Any extra details would be apperciated. I'll be having a go at this over the weekend.

[hector]

Sorry for the delay in reply,the ink I used was Rotring Artist Color.The blue ink has a serial number Art.597109 and the black ink Art.597117.I really don't think it matters on the manufacturer as long as its decent stuff.You will definitely need to mix blue and black though as my first go was with blue on its own and its too light.Best of luck!

[Midnight Blue]

Cheers Hector I'll give it a go, and let you know if I end up needing new carpets!

[HECTOR]

I was a bit concerned about this as well but within a minute or so of 'rubbing' in the ink I wiped a clean rag over the carpet and had virtually no dye on it,repeated a few minutes later and found no ink on rag.Did mine in March and still looks good.