interior colours dont match??

Hoodzy · Post by **Hoodzy** » June 3rd, 2005, 5:26 am

i have a 95 GS with a black interior, but the ceiling is tan is this normal?

lucky13 · Post by **lucky13** » June 3rd, 2005, 5:50 am

yes, i am going to change mine black

tw1st3d_cl0wn · Post by **tw1st3d_cl0wn** » June 3rd, 2005, 10:55 am

I also have a 95 with black interior and a tan cieling. But consider yourself lucky, because when I bought my car, the rear seats are black, but my driver and passenger seats look like they came out of an earlier year MX-3 (a 92 or 93?). They are like tan/grayish and pink. Something like that. Looks really weird, but they're comfortable atleast.

But your tan cieling is normal.

93SOHC · Post by **93SOHC** » June 3rd, 2005, 2:21 pm

My 93 also has the tan headliner and A pillars...

Hoodzy · Post by **Hoodzy** » June 3rd, 2005, 3:56 pm

ahah ok just wanted to make sure, thought maybe the top had been rippedoff and replaced

jschrauwen · Post by **jschrauwen** » June 4th, 2005, 2:42 am

Didn't know that the headliner came in tan also and it appears on the newer MX's too. I've only seen the gray A and B pillars and headliner and no tan. Wondering if it's another one of those Canadian/American differences like the leather seats - heated vs non-heated. I plan on finding suitable paint for the pillars to change from grey to black and re-cover the grey headliner to black also. Then I'll finally have every interior colour set to black.

good_glory · Post by **good_glory** » June 4th, 2005, 4:19 pm

jschrauwen wrote:re-cover the grey headliner to black

I was thinking about doing that too actually, just wondering how hard you think it would be? Has anyone done it successfully themselves?
Any plans on how to do it John?

reaper of souls · Post by **reaper of souls** » June 5th, 2005, 11:02 am

got the same problem red car black interior minus the head liner a pillers and the b- pillars leading in to the hatch but everything else is black. i'm going to do the easy thing fiberglass the headliner sand the hell out of it then paint it black

jschrauwen · Post by **jschrauwen** » June 5th, 2005, 11:30 am

good_glory wrote:
jschrauwen wrote:re-cover the grey headliner to black
I was thinking about doing that too actually, just wondering how hard you think it would be? Has anyone done it successfully themselves?
Any plans on how to do it John?

I believe Gro Harlem deserves the credit here. He inspired me to go that route. *Many thanks Wil*. He has done the recovering of the headliner and I believe the repainting of the A & B pillars. I think it's covered in his site. This mod will probably be a winter project for me.
Strange that the MX never had black as a colour for the upper interior parts. I guess my 02 Protege' with the same upper colour (grey) is proof of that.

Hoodzy · Post by **Hoodzy** » June 5th, 2005, 7:55 pm

designers of cars have never really been to great with the colours of vehicle interiors

Gro Harlem · Post by **Gro Harlem** » June 5th, 2005, 9:22 pm

Lol!

Actually they purposely made the pillars & headliner tan. Look at pretty much every car on the planet sold today and you'll notice they are always colored similarly. My mom's 93' Camry w/blue itnerior is the only car i can think of that doesn't have lighter colored a pillars & headliner.

Reason they do it is b/c it makes the car feel more airy and welcoming. I read some s--- about it in a magazine b/c somone emailed them the same exact question.

I know all mazdas since the 80's have been doing it. My ol' protege, my buddies 2001 protege, etc.

Before my car was even registered I had that s--- dyed black and headliner redone in black.

Here is a pic of how it used to look. Right now I have no headliner b/c I bought a non-power-seatbelt headliner that I have yet to recover (ran out of fabric + too lazy to go to fabric store to get more).

Hoodzy · Post by **Hoodzy** » June 6th, 2005, 3:28 am

ahhh yes good point but maybe even light gray??

well i'm thinking of cars in general ahah even the tan interior mx-3s make me wanna puke

the brownish red i've seen in most cars from early 90's absolutely horrid

they should stay within, dark blue, gray, black, some tan does work but to an extent

duo · Post by **duo** » June 7th, 2005, 8:48 am

does any one knows how to take the dash board out??

reaper of souls · Post by **reaper of souls** » June 7th, 2005, 3:54 pm

two screews beside the steering colum and i belive either two or three right above the gauges then pull (hard)