Alcantara Interiors

[GhostStalker27]

Has anyone done an alcantara interior? If so, how long ago and how is it holding up?

I know LuisV did the steering wheel, shifter boot, and Ebrake boot this past year. http://driveviper.com/forums/threads...nts-on-the-GTS

I'm thinking about doing the whole interior as a winter project. I'm open to different materials if there's a good argument for it. Thanks and please post pictures if ya got em.

[agentf1]

I have one in my daily driver Ford Lightning and after 40,000 miles the driver seat is wearing badly. It may be because it is a truck and you cannot avoid sliding in and out of it every time you drive it. A Viper or sports car you kinda just drop onto it which may not wear it nearly as much. I also have it on my Carvaggio Steering wheel in my Vette and it is wearing beautifully but it only has 9000 miles and probably a lot less on the Wheel. While it looks nice I prefer leather over Alacantara. With my cheap leather Vette seats I use Leatherique and it keep them like new despite them not being top quality leather. Alacantara all you can do is keep them clean, there are no conditioners. JMHO.

[GhostStalker27]

Thanks for the 2 perspectives. Nice looking interior Jon, I like the orange stitching and the cf on the center console. I have a silver with blue stripes viper so I was thinking I'd have to go all black or maybe carbon with a grey stitching.

For now I'm focused on doing the dash, wheel, center console, shifter and ebrake boots. The seats I'm not ready for - yet.. My car came with some carbon fiber accents (door sills and around the gauges) so I think the alcantara will compliment it nicely.

I'm trying to picture in my head if doing half leather and half alcantara in black or carbon would look good as alternative.

Has anyone updated/installed their own interior?

[trappster]

I've seen a few Gen IIs with alcantara interior...while I love the material, it just doesn't look right in our cars. The interior needs to be designed from the beginning for alcantara to look right.

I'm looking at doing a 3M "Carbon fiber" wrap of my dash and center console. I think that look work a better with the extremely raw nature of earlier Vipers.

[v10tt]

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[GhostStalker27]

I've seen a few Gen IIs with alcantara interior...while I love the material, it just doesn't look right in our cars. The interior needs to be designed from the beginning for alcantara to look right.

I'm looking at doing a 3M "Carbon fiber" wrap of my dash and center console. I think that look work a better with the extremely raw nature of earlier Vipers.

Will that wrap adhere smoothly to the curves and also look seamless? I like when CF has a thick gloss to it, from what I recall the 3m wrap doesn't, right?

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Good looks v10

[trappster]

That's the challenge. It won't be easy, but with enough planning and test fitting/cutting, I think it's possible. It's more of a matte finish, gloss would be awful as it would reflect sunlight. I prefer to not be blinded while driving haha

[FrgMstr]

Great material, but if you think it looks "good," it don't. That stuff is UGLY.

[GhostStalker27]

Great material, but if you think it looks "good," it don't. That stuff is UGLY.

So are green cars lol

[GhostStalker27]

That's the challenge. It won't be easy, but with enough planning and test fitting/cutting, I think it's possible. It's more of a matte finish, gloss would be awful as it would reflect sunlight. I prefer to not be blinded while driving haha

Yeah I agree i wouldn't want my dash glossy, I was thinking more along the lines of the accent pieces.

[FrgMstr]

So are green cars lol

I will take you up on a parking lot challenge any day and see which one more people stop at to take pictures of.

In all seriousness, if you would have told me four years ago that I would own a green car, I would have told you to put down the crack pipe and step away. I don't in any way like the color green. I think the only other thing I own that is green is my broom in the kitchen. But when I saw her.....oh baby.

I think Alcantara is great for accent and function pieces where you need it, but doing large surfaces in it always puts me off. I look at that Lambo pic up top and think to myself, "Someone needs to brush his car."

[GhostStalker27]

I will take you up on a parking lot challenge any day and see which one more people stop at to take pictures of.

In all seriousness, if you would have told me four years ago that I would own a green car, I would have told you to put down the crack pipe and step away. I don't in any way like the color green. I think the only other thing I own that is green is my broom in the kitchen. But when I saw her.....oh baby.

I think Alcantara is great for accent and function pieces where you need it, but doing large surfaces in it always puts me off. I look at that Lambo pic up top and think to myself, "Someone needs to brush his car."

I hear ya, I think alcantara looks good in small spaces as well - like the steering wheel, around gauge clusters, etc. I think if you were to take any fabric and use it all over - it wouldn't look good. I'm leaning towards half and half (alcantara and nappa leather). I think it'd compliment the small amount of carbon fiber I currently have. All the oem leather and plastic have lost there matte look and are just worn down -otherwise I'd leave it as is.

[GhostStalker27]

This is the mix I had in mind

2015-Dodge-Viper-ACR-Interior.jpg

[GBS]

Take a look at the drivers bolster on older cars with leather. Awful.

I have a 30 year old car with the original leather and it still looks great.

After 30 Years:


For comparison, nothing like leather and a six speed:

[ViperJon]

The Alcantara is only in the higher end special edition Lambos, not the old base ones.
Is that an 8 track player? Nice......

[GBS]

The Alcantara is only in the higher end special edition Lambos, not the old base ones.
Is that an 8 track player? Nice......

lol, you mean that 2008 don't even have a 8 track!

[v10enomous]

I always think of velour when I see it. I guess everything comes back eventually. It would be like a culture clash in a 99 ACR.

[Hiss Highness]

mmmmm, ultrasuede

[v10tt]

All I did in Alacantara on my GTS was the headliner and the 1/2 bottom of the doors which were carpeted, came out nice and looks clean. You can't over do it in my opinion. The rest I just did leather (seats and shifter boot).
All else I left stock and looks best in my opinion.











NOT MY DOOR, but you get the idea.

[agentf1]

All I did in Alacantara on my GTS was the headliner and the 1/2 bottom of the doors which were carpeted, came out nice and looks clean. You can't over do it in my opinion. The rest I just did leather (seats and shifter boot).
All else I left stock and looks best in my opinion.











NOT MY DOOR, but you get the idea.

That interior/seats looks awesome.v10tt. They are not the original Gen II seats are they?

[v10enomous]

Both of my cars have leather but in my opinion the ballistic cloth looks great in the GenV's and I would have been happy to save that money rather than spend it to get leather. I'm certainly no animal rights activist but in this day and age it seems a little silly to be sitting on a dead cow driving a 640hp high tech sports car. At some point leather needs to go the way of wood dashboards and wrist watches. What's the point beyond saying you have it ? Someone argue with me... lol

[FrgMstr]

I'm certainly no animal rights activist but in this day and age it seems a little silly to be sitting on a dead cow driving a 640hp high tech sports car.

Thanks, now I'm hungry. Mmm, dead cow.

[v10enomous]

I actually think Alcantara is a step in the right direction but it's basically just fake suede made from polyester or something.

[GhostStalker27]

The interior is so shiny and plastic - I didn't really understand all the complaints until I owned one.

I'm curious, for the people that had their interiors done or did them yourselves, did you experience stuff like sagging and wrinkles over time? It's basically a wrap held on with adhesive - right?

[TitleMine]

My interior looks like it came off the assembly line yesterday.

But how many miles does it have? Because if the answer is like "11000" or something, that's hardly surprising.