In detail: do-it-yourself car ceiling burn-through repair from a real master for the site my.housecope.com.
Smoking in the car is not a good idea, but sometimes it is difficult to resist this addiction.
Firstly, smoking in the car is simply dangerous due to the fact that it is distracting, a person relaxes, acrid cigarette smoke can get into the eyes and at a critical moment a cigarette can lead to disastrous consequences. The second unpleasant moment is the side effects of the well-known addiction - not very pleasant residual smell of tobacco in the car, ash lying everywhere and, most unpleasant, burnt places.
A coal of tobacco can fall on the seat upholstery, you can accidentally wave your hand and put out your cigarette on the front pillar, some particularly lucky comrades even burn the ceiling!
What to do in this case? After all, a burned-out seat is not at all aesthetically pleasing. For many people, the interior of a car is a kind of visiting card. In addition to the appearance of the car, the second thing that almost any person draws on is the neatness of the car's interior.
The burnt hole must be repaired. There are three ways. The first - high-quality, but costly - will turn to specialized services offering services for restoring the original type of car.
The second is less costly, but much more complicated, to purchase a kit for upholstery repair.
This path is different in that it will send you to a professional car service with a probability of 80%. Without certain skills, it will not be easy to make high-quality repairs on your own with the help.
Fortunately, there is a third option. It only requires accuracy, a minimal set of tools that you can find at home and a minimum of time. Nevertheless, the result will pleasantly surprise you!
Video (click to play).
Required tool:
Restoring the burnt upholstery of the seat
In an inconspicuous place, for example, at the bottom of the seat, take a razor and shave off the required amount of upholstery fibers.
Collect the fibers in a small container. The fibers of the upholstery material will look like plain fluff.
Fill the cigarette burn hole halfway with glue
Using tweezers, scribble the extracted material onto the glue. Don't tamp it!
Reapply a thin layer of adhesive over the fibers. More accurate! Do not drop into undamaged areas.
Using tweezers, lay in some more fibers until the hole is completely filled with them.
Take a piece of any thick fabric. We will use it as a substrate. Cut out a rectangular patch. Round the edges. This will make it easier to push it into the hole and straighten it under the upholstery.
We take fabric glue and a needle. Apply glue to the needle and process the patch as shown in the video (43 seconds). Gently apply glue so that the scarf does not move from its place.
Apply glue to the resulting backing. You can also use an external patch, as shown in the video. This does not change the essence.
The most crucial moment. Gluing a piece of fabric onto the seat upholstery. Where can I get the material for the patch? It can usually be cut from the bottom of the seat.
For a quality repair, it is very important that the pattern of the outer patch matches the overall pattern of the seat. Here you have to measure seven times, cut once. You will succeed, we believe in you!
We press the supplied scarf. We are waiting for a couple of minutes.
Ready! Your seat is like new! Congratulations!
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Smoking inside a car is a common practice for many car owners. Many do not even think when they light a cigarette in the car. As a result, very often while driving, a strong air flow blows into the cabin not only smoke, but also burning tobacco. As a result, a car smoker, as a rule, does not have a place that does not have at least one burned point. And this also applies to the ceiling. Yes, even this surface can be affected by smoking in the salon. And therefore, the question of how to restore the ceiling covering if it was burned out by a cigarette is very relevant.
And first, let's define what are the materials used for the arrangement of ceilings in cars. In fact, there are three groups of them:
Each option has its own recommendations, so let's take a closer look at the groups.
The technology for restoring such materials resembles the conditions for restoring velor. Only liquid components are used for this, because the softening point of these materials is lower than that of velor.
When repairing the cladding, you need to repeatedly apply special equipment, perform heat treatment to restore the structure.This technology allows you to choose the color, as well as successfully restore the structure of the material.
If a special gel is applied to the surface of the skin or plastic, you can recreate their structure.
When using plastic on the ceiling of a car, a more careful approach will be required to restore it, for example, than when repairing a plastic bumper, because you have to take into account the texture of the material. Therefore, you can use a gel softener with a certain level of graininess. Thanks to this, it is possible to recreate the texture of the surface, which is repaired, as shown in the photo. As a result, the resulting coating will receive its original appearance, as well as the ability to withstand loads.
As a result, we get a lot of advantages:
New technologies and materials make it possible to restore the car ceiling very quickly, without the need to remove the material.
Only the damaged area is subject to repair, therefore, money is saved that could be used to restore the entire surface. The repairs are local.
Thanks to the technologies used, the color can be matched very accurately.
In this case, you need to act differently. Basically, there are three ways:
Everything can be done by hand, as shown in the photo and video. It is necessary to inspect the area of damage, then try to cut off the villi that are burnt, you need to leave only the "living" tissue. Next, you should find the area from which you can take a piece of sheathing fabric without prejudice to the appearance. For example, if the ceiling is burned in the center, then a piece of fabric can be taken from the back, where it is wrapped inward. And then you need to apply high-quality glue on the surface and press them well. First, you should try on the cut piece to the damaged area.
There is another way - to use the villi from the repair kit. Thus, nothing will be damaged, and the damaged place where the burn was made will be restored.
There is also a third approach - to turn to professionals. In this case, specialists spray the fabric onto the area that has been burned with a cigarette. This technology makes it possible to obtain a surface on which a defect will not be noticeable. At the same time, such a procedure is relatively inexpensive, but it is performed quickly. And much, of course, depends on the type of fabric, its structure and characteristics.