TooTall'sTruck
Observer
Looks Great! Has the truck earned a nickname yet?
If you are going to use vinyl floormats I would recommend that you use as much sound deadener as possible right now. The vinyl seems to bounce sound around the cabin much more than carpet, the carpet soaks it up like a movie theater and deadens the overall cabin noise. Look at the theater next time you go, they have carpet on the walls and heavy drapes to soak up the unidirectional sound so that the general sound comes from the correct direction (speakers).
I am debating this myself as vinyl is so much easier to not worry about than carpet, but carpet is in my truck right now so I will use it until I find a better replacement. I remember that our Yukon was like a huge, cold cave when the only interior in it was a dash and a drivers seat! The interior pieces soak up alot of road noise and in a standard cab there isn't alot of interior!!
I would skip the painting your interior parts and slowly search for better plastic pieces as you go along, most of the time the sun has destroyed the plastic on a molecular level and once painted the paint just flakes off, along with the next layer of plastic...at least that is what I see after others have tried to re-paint old plastics. Maybe the paint is a better product now, but to get good adhesion it needs to penetrate the plastic and old punky plastic is just old and punky. Look for 1992 and newer trucks too, the trims will interchange, I have a thread in my email of where a fella took an OBS interior and swapped it into a bricknose.
Don't give up!!
If you are going to use vinyl floormats I would recommend that you use as much sound deadener as possible right now. The vinyl seems to bounce sound around the cabin much more than carpet, the carpet soaks it up like a movie theater and deadens the overall cabin noise. Look at the theater next time you go, they have carpet on the walls and heavy drapes to soak up the unidirectional sound so that the general sound comes from the correct direction (speakers).
I am debating this myself as vinyl is so much easier to not worry about than carpet, but carpet is in my truck right now so I will use it until I find a better replacement. I remember that our Yukon was like a huge, cold cave when the only interior in it was a dash and a drivers seat! The interior pieces soak up alot of road noise and in a standard cab there isn't alot of interior!!
I would skip the painting your interior parts and slowly search for better plastic pieces as you go along, most of the time the sun has destroyed the plastic on a molecular level and once painted the paint just flakes off, along with the next layer of plastic...at least that is what I see after others have tried to re-paint old plastics. Maybe the paint is a better product now, but to get good adhesion it needs to penetrate the plastic and old punky plastic is just old and punky. Look for 1992 and newer trucks too, the trims will interchange, I have a thread in my email of where a fella took an OBS interior and swapped it into a bricknose.
Don't give up!!
