Alcantara or suede?

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Alcantara or suede?

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Looking to do my cabin headliner and pillars in some different material to the 4 way stretch. Anyone have an opinion and source for material?
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Have a look at
https://www.harrisonstrimsupplies.co.uk/

They do a Suede Flex unbacked that has a 4 way stretch flexibilty in three colours. Did my headliner and pillar trims with the unbacked stuff.

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I have carpet in mine at the moment but been thinking about going down the suede route so that gets my vote 8)
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Cheers fella.
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@Gary.8
any pics of the finished article? Thinking about this route myself.
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@SRAutoSolutions find so here you go.Image
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Got the. Stuff in double quick time from Harrison. Easy to apply too. Even more so than the 4 way stretch carpet.

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The A pillars were a mare!😂

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@exuptoy looks great, did you go for the black or the dark grey?
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@gary.8 did you paint your grab handles and sunvisors etc? If so what did you use? Looks spot on!
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Cheers guys. 4 way stretch was charcoal, Suede was also charcoal and handles and visors standard cream colour. I don’t think it looks too bad.
I did purchase cloud grey paint earlier but decided against it.
I think the fingerprints in the knapp of the material might eventually get to me. I can see me brushing it straight every day! 😂😂
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I’ll get better pics tomorrow.👍
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Daylight pics.

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That looks a lovely job and definitely something I’m gonna have to go for I think. Although I do have a spot for the grill fabric so I’ll have to fit that in some place too
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