How to dye your cars carpet the RIGHT way

How to dye your cars carpet the RIGHT way | I ruined my cars carpet

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Learn from my mistakes. DO NOT USE RIT DYE for your cars carpet.
Here is a video of how not to dye your carpet.
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@ComicbookGuy70 5 ай бұрын

The reason why is Rit is for natural fabrics like cotton; auto carpet (except for wool) is plastic, can't absorb the color.

@zackellis23 4 ай бұрын

I pinned this comment because I 100% overlooked this as a factor as to why it didn't work. Im not sure if other manufactures use natural fabrics and im not even sure if this carpet inst natural but hopefully this helps other people from running into the same issue I did. I appreciate it!

@ComicbookGuy70 4 ай бұрын

Rit does make a dye for synthetic materials it requires using boiling water. From their website. *Important Note: Due to the complexity of dyeing synthetics, you must use Rit DyeMore with the stovetop method to maintain an almost boiling temperature for the duration of your dyeing.

@SSSLYDE 2 ай бұрын

@@ComicbookGuy70 you need to soak the carpet in a trash can full of boiled rit dye for about a week and then dry and wash all the dye out and it will be ink black until the end of time.

@maxspielberg6612 Күн бұрын

@@ComicbookGuy70 Also from their website "Add Salt or Vinegar (If Dyeing Cotton, Linen, Silk, Wool, Nylon Rayon and Ramie). To enhance the color: (1) add 1 cup of salt when dyeing fabrics containing cotton, rayon, ramie or linen; (2) add 1 cup of vinegar when dyeing fabrics containing nylon, silk or wool."

@joeentertain7989 3 ай бұрын

It failed because you used room temperature water. RIT dye is heat activated, and you should get the water as hot as possible. The dye didn't activate in your case and was just sitting on the surface. You should also add table salt to it to get the dye to activate easier in the BOILING HOT water, and attach to/soak into, the carpet fibers.

@paulrasmussen7459 Ай бұрын

1. Yes, boil the water. 2. You needed to use Rit Colorstay after you dyed it.

@herbsenergetics4078 2 ай бұрын

Follow the instructions. Written so you don't get what you got. Used RIT to dye carpets. Works great if you follow the instructions.

@zackellis23 2 ай бұрын

That’s incorrect. Directions don’t say it’s not designed for synthetic materials. BUT they do offer a version designed for synthetics.

@funkmonkey5941 Ай бұрын

Nah it’s trash for car carpets, I followed the directions perfectly and my carpet was green and not black in the test spots

@zackellis23 Ай бұрын

@@funkmonkey5941 that sucks so bad. how did you fix it?

@angry3055 7 күн бұрын

I my case i was very successful using the dye, but i did my 1986 Caprice floor carpet during middle of summer on my open driveway where temps are usually 105F-115F.😊

@thaddeauscaldwell7101 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for the video. I wouldn't have never used RIT . I used Dupli- color vinyl and fabric paint, to change the carpet color from grey to Red , in my ' 90 Corvette Convertible and it looks awesome. I highly recommend Dupli-Color vinyl and fabric paint.

@zackellis23 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for the info! Lesson learned for sure lol

@Burns_Automotive22 2 ай бұрын

How many cans you used ?

@daved2143 Ай бұрын

I did my carpet on my truck the same way you’re doing it with that dye. Spraying it with the bottle it came out fine. Just let it sit out in the sun for a while and spray some more scrub like you were doing baking Son. No tiger stripes lol i’ll tell you one thing spray it with the spray cans, a lot easier, and it save time.

@zackellis23 Ай бұрын

Hahaha I appreciate the comment. Yea I’m in no rush to try another carpet again BUT when the time comes I’m gonna rit again

@Dagothdaleet 4 ай бұрын

Im getting prepared to dye my carpet and trim from tan to black. Thank you for the tip because i have Rit that i was considering using for the carpet

@zackellis23 4 ай бұрын

Damn right. Good luck with it and I’m glad I could help

@myceliumforall619 4 ай бұрын

I just got done doing my 79 corvette and can tell you its true. i dye the carpet about 2 weeks ago and dried it on the sun and then under the constant ceiling fan for the remainder time. and after i installed it 2 days ago, is now sweating. and i have no idea how to stop it. so, yes, do not use rite for car carpet, use the spray can he has. i used it for the rest of the car and for some reason not for the rug. but we do and we learn, anyways...good luck man!

@zackellis23 4 ай бұрын

@@myceliumforall619 I wish you saw my video sooner but im happy that you commented to at least confirm the issue.

@angelicabaldassare9286 4 ай бұрын

oh my god you just saved me from doing this to my car

@zackellis23 4 ай бұрын

@@angelicabaldassare9286 Im happy it helped! What are you working on?

@robsweekendgarage 6 ай бұрын

Def a helpful video. Looking to dye my E30’s dark blue carpet to black. Good to hear the carpet isn’t all plastic feeling afterwards. I was planning to tan swap the interior since that’s what I have but found some black sport seats. So might just dye the rest of the interior black too.

@zackellis23 4 ай бұрын

hell yeah. If I could find a black carpet I would 100% use that but the spray dye has been doing good so far

@m54.juniorr 4 ай бұрын

if im correct, don’t i have to get water and put vinegar or salt and dish soap to activate chemicals correctly ?

@zackellis23 4 ай бұрын

From what I remember the directions only say hot water. Nothing else. Also apparently they have a natural fabric dye (what I used) and a synthetics dye (what I should have used)

@StyFresh 3 ай бұрын

@@zackellis23yea only problem is i just did the same thing lol im gonna try too find black synthetic dye

@BoredVetGarage 3 ай бұрын

I’m pretty sure it’s because you are going over beige why it has a green Hue. If this was on gray or to refresh black carpet I think it would have been fine.

@zackellis23 3 ай бұрын

Yea I agree. But she's black now so im happy lol

@funkmonkey5941 Ай бұрын

How does the carpet feel after the duplicolor spray?

@zackellis23 Ай бұрын

a little stiff. almost like it was spray painted lol. So not nearly as soft as it once was

@mokiicustoms 8 ай бұрын

Haha same thing happened to my dad on his c1500 truck carpet

@zackellis23 8 ай бұрын

Lol there are still so many videos of people using this method. I don’t get it lol

@Champpaco 4 ай бұрын

Bruh I’m too late to this video 😭😭 now I gotta get that spray 😢😐

@zackellis23 4 ай бұрын

Bruuuhhh! I just saw your video lol. You did boil the water which will help. If you read some of the comments on my video someone commented that our carpets are synthetic which requires a different rit dye… hopefully your carpet doesn’t bleed out. If it does hopefully you can clean it out.

@Champpaco 4 ай бұрын

LOL thats crazy!! yeah i washed them and they all turned grey and green so it sucks but once i get the spray i think it will work out i just wish i knew before i did all of it !!!@@zackellis23

@SSSLYDE 2 ай бұрын

you need to soak the carpet in a trash can full of boiled rit dye for about a week and then dry and wash all the dye out and it will be ink black until the end of time.

@zackellis23 2 ай бұрын

That sounds like a ton of work and carpet it also too stiff for a trash can lol BUT I don’t doubt that would work

@SSSLYDE 2 ай бұрын

doesn’t seem too different from the e36/e39 carpets i’ve done, 96 gallon bin gets the trick done. the hard part is finding something to do with the 800lbs of ink water 😂

@funkmonkey5941 Ай бұрын

Are you being serious does that actually work?

@mongopoe5099 2 ай бұрын

Any updates?

@zackellis23 2 ай бұрын

It's holding up well! The only spot that needed to be touched up was the foot well on the drivers side.

@srt-4-thompson 8 ай бұрын

Sucks you had to be the test dummy for this video, but I know not to use the (rit) but the end result was bangin 🤘 btw like the gromm

@zackellis23 8 ай бұрын

Haha thanks man! Yea I was hurt. Maybe im a dummy and messed it up but it’s a pretty simple process. The end result came out great and I appreciate you watching! I love my Grom but trying to sell it lol