Work in progress, will be wrapped up next week. Suede wrapped trim pieces, headliner, pillars, and inserts. Complete color change (from navy to tan). Custom molded tan carpet. All new door moldings (were two toned with blue to match the interior). Much, much more.

Anyone know what brand/model number adapter we'll need to install a custom steering wheel for this car? Owner wants to put in a billet wheel, and I wanna be sure that the universal Ford adapter will be the right one for this ride.

naw but i got some popcorn for the finish product paint rims and dash looking good

That shit real clean..only thing i would change is the chrome fenders

You know the deal, to each their own. Dude's car, dude's taste!

It actually don't look bad out in the mix, just kinda goes w/all the chrome.

Stay tuned for some updated photos this week!

Got the steering column figured out. It's $150 for the adapter, but he'll be the only Merc w/the Billet Specialties wheel.

Got the door panels installed, rear dash, headliner, and visors in, carpet in. We replaced the factory weatherstripping (was two toned w/the blue) with all oem black. Going to be puttin the seats in the next couple days, and got the brand new seat belt material coming (on back order).

New photos:

http://picasaweb.google.com/affordablecove...IEGrandMarquis#

NICE , EVERYWHERE THERES NO SUEDE SHOULDA BEEN BLUE .

That color is growing on me


Goodluck with the build

Thanks for the feedback fellas.

The blue candy paint is no longer being made, and the painter used it all doing the body & wheels, except for what he's got saved to do the stereo & glasswork after we're done with the interior.

The concept here is to be super classy and perfect. That's why we went with the color change from navy to the tan, and did the suede from the tops of the door panels up (pillars, visors, rear deck, headliner, etc).

We'll put up some finished product photos when we get the seatbelts off back order and the new steering wheel here from Cali. Also doing some embroidery in the headrests to surprise the owner. He's a local rapper and we're going to be puttin a lil something on the headrests to represent his music.

what kandy is that?

x2 i thought it was outrageous

I'm not sure, I'll try to ask the Painter when he comes and picks up the car. I am pretty sure it was something from House of Kolors, and they discontinued the color for whatever reason. I know it was a couple hundred dollars a quart from what he was sayin.

Just ordered up the floormats, and a custom billet steering wheel... Hope they get here by the end of the week so we can finish the car up.

The Merc looks good. Where did you get the adapter for the steering wheel from. Do you know the part #.

I can hook you up with it. It's a bit pricey for an adapter ($150), and I get it from a place that I have my dealer license hung through. Not sure what they'd charge for it retail, but I'll sell it to you for the $150 man.

We're puttin together a reveal party for the release of PIE's new album & the reveal of the completed car. Gonna be up here in the 352, and gonna have music, food, and hopefully a lil bit of a car show & maybe even some car wash chics

for what he is getting done basically how much yall hitting for

On his car, we did a lot of different stuff that isn't necessarily done on each car. Obviously each owner has their own ideas and budget. Here's a basic shakedown of the costs associated w/this project:

Complete color-change (navy original) to Doeskin & Suede Interior: $3,000
(includes: real suede, all piping, full pre-molded carpet, full color change, new door moldings, suede roof, dash, pillars, rear deck, door panels, plus misc. replacement parts that were required/needed)
ACC Custom Floormats: $140
Billet Specialties Steering Wheel: $340
Billet Specialties Custom Adapter: $150
Billet Shift Selector: (still trying to locate)
Custom Colored Replacement Seat Belts: $140
Custom Headrest Embroidery: $50

So his total bill is going to be right at 4 stax, including all the upgrades. Car has 4 stax in wheels/tires, about 8 stax in paint/body, and is going to be getting another couple stax in the music. Owner is a local rapper, and this car is being made to be done as classy as possible, cuz he wants to go with a Maybach Merc logo for it, and put it on the cover of his newest album that's ready to drop.

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Looks like some good work tho

damn 4bands with no fiberglassing shittin me

You get what you pay for bruh. Dude wants everything perfect, and wants a lot of extras.

Dude brought us a car that someone else had ruined (Dynasty something or other, out of Tampa), and he's having to sue them over how bad they did. They charged him 5 stax, did a carpet-over (flat carpet glued onto his stock molded carpet), did a headliner-over (stock headliner and just glued new blue fabric right over top of it), the inserts on the seats didn't line up (seat backs were over .75" wider than the seat bottoms), none of the lines lined up, and they didn't use any exotic materials (ie: suede). Not to mention, they didn't do a color change, and all the upgrades (billet wheel, billet adapter, seat belts, door moldings, etc). His price isn't just for an interior. We did a lot more than that to this car. And we still beat the "other guys" price by $1,000.

You won't find a single line that doesn't line up. Everything on this interior is flawless. He got brand new pre-molded carpet, not some shady ass mexican style carpet-over. He got a brand new headliner, with added padding for additional plush feel, with the suede. He got a full color change from navy to desert tan - every single part of this car was removed, and had been wrapped, replaced with oem tan (big $$ from Mercury), or has been professionally dyed (an 8-step process). On top of that, dude got the extra parts I mentioned (wheel, shift selector, floormats, embroidery) & a brand new set of door moldings/seals/rubbers whatever you wanna call them. And upon delivery the car gets a full-detail & polish. Aint nobody doing all that work for as affordable as we did, period. And if they do, they aint no where as good as we are, period.

personally i have seen work just as good as your doing for 2500, and that was with glassing the front and back doors to fit 6 1/2 and a tvs, and back dash with 6 1/2 with a vent......... only thing that wasn't touched in the car was the front dash cause the factory color of the dash matched the color inside the car(all this was in a charger), but like i said you have done good work, but there are always shops out there that can beat a particular shops price and still offer just as good of work, but like i said i seen the bubble you done, and this merc, bubble was iffy, this merc is nice, maybe you hit him 4 stacks for fixing shit, but like i said i know a shop that does the same quality work cheaper

It's all good mang, I wasn't tryin to say you were hatin or nothing like that. Just explainin' why the costs are/were what they were.

Our entry level "donk-wraps" start at $1,800 (like the Pink Bubble) and are a lot less labor intensive, obviously. Then you get things like this Merc, where we had to do stuff that is "out the norm" like replacing door moldings, reinventing the wheel on the seats (b/c previous interior was rendered useless for making patterns due to previous upholstery company screwing it all up), etc.

PIE's Merc started out as a $2,200 job, and then as we got into the car, and he wanted xyz changed, it all just adds up. We're just stoked to make his car right for him, he just put a lot of his hard earned money into the car at that other place, and they ripped him off - straight up. You don't charge a dude $5k and not even give him any exotic materials, new carpet, new headliner, etc. They literally just took roll of carpet and went over his other carpet, stuff like that man. So we were happy to get him out of that problem, because he really wants this car to be classy, not trashy. I think the other shop knew that money wasn't an object for him, and took advantage of him big-time.

We shut the shop down this week to partake in the Bike Week event out in Daytona, to do custom Motorcycle Seats for the crowd in a vendor booth. So hopefully when we get back on Monday, all the parts (wheel, adapter, seatbelts, etc) are at the shop waiting on us, so we can try and wrap this thing up for PIE.

I'll hit it up with some pics when we're all finished! Thanks again for the info & support fellas.

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nice

on one of the nicest merc i have seen if not the nicest

Looks like some quality work to me

That bitch is nice, really nice. Def one of, if not the cleanest Merc I have seen in a long time.

Every thing is classly, with just enough flash to make it jump out and grab your attention. Very nice job indeed

Thanks guys for all the comments! As mentioned, we were going for Classy w/a lil Flash - no Trash! This is by far one of the most elegant interiors you'd ever sit in! We enjoyed working with Mr. P.I.E. to bring this creation to life, and we'll keep ya'll posted when he brings us the trunk to wrap the music!!!!!!!!!!!

Here's a music video with PIE in it:

http://www.youtube.com/midiabl0#p/a/f/1/sqHH7oZbbC0

We've got an Airport on rent to do a new video w/the Merc in the coming months........ Stay tuned!

iono i think that paint is outrageous cuz it look liked it was flippin in a few pix but sum kandys kinda do that too and 8 stax for that paint? that seem pretty high unless it was a total rust bucket which i doubt...not hatin at all the color real nice n wet juz high priced and me personally idda added alil more blue in there,like maybe juz alil on half the doors and maybe the carpet but thats me


still a real clean car but prices seem alil high,but aye cant knock your hustle homie..n who is he n were he from cuz i neva heard of him

'Preciate the words man. Just like I was sayin before, I don't feel no hatin, don't sweat.

With regards to the Kandy, this car had to be stripped down to BARE METAL to be painted. The owner had brought the car to another paint shop & upholstery company before bringing it to us. When we got it, the interior was "new" - but half-assed and NOT done right. The paint was still gummy, because they didn't use the right amount of hardener in the clear I guess. So I got with Tim @ LEO Customs, and he had this car stripped down to bare metal, re-did a few spots of body work, and Kandy'd the whole car, and color matched the wheels all for that price.

As for the colors on the guts, we were just wanting to set a different trend with this one. His '82 Box that we're doing is getting fiberglass and all sorts of the "normal" stuff. This car is his Sunday car, for him to take his family to Chuuuuuch. So we were going for super classy, like something you'd see in a Maybach or a Mercedes or a Jaguar. Comfortable, soft, plush, and classy. All while still being flawless, fresh, and completely custom.

The owner's name is Mr. P.I.E. and he is from the 352, Brooksville, Spring Hill. He's got some big things going on with the rap game, he just opened for 2 Pistols (a dude I went to school with in Tarpon), been killing it on tour in ATL with some local clubs, and doing some things with Plies out in Daytona. We're working on getting this ride into the eyes of RIDES Magazine, and maybe get ya'll to do something for ECR's next King of the Street video even!

seen the car in person today at the classics looks very good, only flay i could see was how the door pods where put on, but other than that clean ass car, i don't know what the color is but it does have flip or glow to it shit looks good imo

Yeah man, we had it all done for the Classic today. I didn't get to ride over, got a pregnant wife at home, you know how that can go....... The door pod install was obviously done at the stereo shop, but we did the rest - guts, and all (trunk too), and LEO CUSTOMS did all the Kandy work.

The color is a House of Kolors Kandy, with a Kustom Pearl added to make it stand-out! Hipnotic was the goal!

yeah i was thinking it was teal color, but just didn't know what to guess, and you need to the audio shop for that door shit lol.................... but yeah that shit was fresh

HAHA, it's not that bad. The fronts are much better than the rears. They didn't extend the rears all the way, that's the only thing I would have done, was make it match the fronts, but iono if it may have had something to do with the length of the pod and fitting it flush up against the rear seat. I didn't want them fugging up our fresh guts! Overall, the sound, the look, the paint, the guts, the whole thing presents CLEAN & CLASSY - just like our goal was bruh. Here's a video I just loaded of it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8mP9k24o60

The quality may be low res still, it's a big video (size, not length) and was still being processed when I cropped that link.

see to me it looks outrageous cuz in a few pix see it flippin but i guess its the pearl yall put in the kandy..........and cv02 wat was worng wit the door pods they look good in hte pix except for the back ones they need to be eextended to the end of the door piece

You will have to see it in person, everything was suede n leather then you fiberglass and paint door pods, through the whole look off, cause it stuck out like a sore thumb, should of wrapped them, n then u can tell they was just stuck on cause u could see the gap when you look at in person

see im paintin my whole bottom half of my door..not juz alil pod like that..so i think mine will look str8

Now don't be hatin' on the Upholstery Shop, cuz we had *nuttin* to do with the install of the 'glass pods! That was an afterthought, after it left our shop, and we had told him we'd wrap them in suede to match, and he wanted 'em to be 'glassed and kandy.

That stereo shop did some nice stuff, but they also cut a few corners, like using some cheap RCA's, not extending the rear door pods, etc. We're going to see about spending some time making it back to ACM's standards!

oh naw we know yall ain't do that, what your shop did was on point, i really liked that shit, but yeah he should of let yall wrapped them so everything blended in well, but to yall work though, seats had no wrinkles from loose wraping, seats where a1, shid everything was a1, just hated what the stereo shop did with those doors, when i get my paper up wouldn't mind droppin my shit off at yall shop