Hey all, it's been a long time since I have posted. This pic below is probably the last time the my car looked decent and clean (taken in 2012 lol).
The Altima has unfortunately been abused and neglected as I've used it for my adventures to the mountain and transporting my German Shepherd around for the last few years. Out of the blue, my dog decided to act up and while I was picking things up in the store, she tore up my door panels and center console armrest. Back in 2007, I spent quite a bit of time customizing my interior, transforming it from the stock cloth light grey to a two tone black and silver with leather seat (original interior thread Complete interior painting project) so it was a bit to bite having my dog wreck it but it was my decision to use the car that way.
Since then my family has picked up a Subaru Outback, more suitable for mountain adventures and dog transportation... So I've begun the process of attempting to clean out all the dog hair and repair the interior. Since the door cloth section was ripped up by my dog, I was torn on finding replacement door from the junk yard or trying to salvage my existing door panel. I decided to repair my existing door and live with having some deep claw marks.
Here I've started ripping off the rest of the cloth inserts to prepare to repaint and install black door inserts on the panel. So rough sanding to even out some of the marks from my dog clawing at the door with her paws.
Half chewed up foam from center console armrest
The Altima has unfortunately been abused and neglected as I've used it for my adventures to the mountain and transporting my German Shepherd around for the last few years. Out of the blue, my dog decided to act up and while I was picking things up in the store, she tore up my door panels and center console armrest. Back in 2007, I spent quite a bit of time customizing my interior, transforming it from the stock cloth light grey to a two tone black and silver with leather seat (original interior thread Complete interior painting project) so it was a bit to bite having my dog wreck it but it was my decision to use the car that way.
Since then my family has picked up a Subaru Outback, more suitable for mountain adventures and dog transportation... So I've begun the process of attempting to clean out all the dog hair and repair the interior. Since the door cloth section was ripped up by my dog, I was torn on finding replacement door from the junk yard or trying to salvage my existing door panel. I decided to repair my existing door and live with having some deep claw marks.
Here I've started ripping off the rest of the cloth inserts to prepare to repaint and install black door inserts on the panel. So rough sanding to even out some of the marks from my dog clawing at the door with her paws.
Half chewed up foam from center console armrest