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    A friend of mine got some beach spilt on his tan carpet in his 00 Honda Accord. Its about the size of a half dollar.



    Any ideas or does he have to get it dyed??? :nixweiss



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    A friend of mine had a drop of bleach drip on his black carpet in his truck. Since the carpet was black he colored the Dime sized spot with a Sharpie marker. It worked good on black, but I am not shre what to do about tan...
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    Here`s a color recipe chart from Rit Dye and here`s the Color Chart for Rit`s standard colors. Depending on how much trouble you wanted to go through you could experiment with the dye colors on a white towel until you developed a color that matched pretty close. If you couldn`t get the color matched exactly, I think it would be better to end up with a color that is lighter than the rest instead of darker. I think if the color was darker the spot would be more noticable. Plus if you started with a lighter shade you could work up to the matching shade by reapplying the dye to the spot. If you got the color too dark you couldn`t go backwards.



    Since this kind of like surgery you`ll want to cover up the rest of the mat with towels or something. This will guard against drips or spills while you`re working on the spot. You could use a tooth brush to work the dye into the spot.

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    Originally posted by Green Monster

    A friend of mine got some beach spilt on his tan carpet in his 00 Honda Accord. Its about the size of a half dollar.



    Any ideas or does he have to get it dyed??? :nixweiss



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    Call around to some detail shops and see if any offer "real" carpet recoloring - not the aerosol paint dye. I can dye pretty much any colour except the lighter greens as I have a professional dye kit but I am no where near you.

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    Shine Shop, I am thinking about purchasing a carpet dye kit. Are there a difference between an aerosol paint dye and the professional dye kit?



    Where did you get your kit?



    How much did it cost?



    How hard is it to use?

 

 

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