I'd love to give it a higher rating but I just can't do it. As tight as the car is you just cant help rubbing up against the door panel with your feet. I have sand colored doors and black scuffs do nothing for it. A small strip of carpet may have helped this along. The seat belts get wedged between the seat and back wall. And if you are not careful when retracting, beat the hell out of both. How long will this plastic last? And do not use armoral on it. Only soap and water. It is water based and will come off with armoral per the owners manual.
The interior is fine for what it is, a low cost 2 seater. If it was a higher priced luxury convertable then yeah it would be lacking.
Give it a few months, there will be aftermarket wood kits, aluminum kits and carbon fiber kits for the interior just like they have for all cars.
Jim
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The styling of the interior is great, but the workmanship leaves lots to be desired. I have MANY interior panels that are held on by double-stick tape. I would gladly have paid more for a higher quality of fit-out.
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Ugh ... I hate to ding the car and give a low score, but I went down to a 7 on this category. The interior is mostly great in design and comfort, but the cheap-looking plastic of the dash and door panels led me to give it the lowest mark I've given it in any category. And no, I don't expect it to be wood or carbon fiber or anything exotic ... but they could have made it look a lot better with just a different type of finish. I had a '96 Z3 that had a plastic dash and it looked fine ... a nice-looking satin finish instead of the hard, jagged look on the Sol. Really, that's about the only thing keeping me from giving it a 9 or a 10 in this category.
No, it's not a deal-breaker, but in a car that was made to look good, I think they should have gone with something just a tad nicer instead of something that honestly looks kind of tacky on an otherwise beautiful car. And that's not something which can be easily remedied with aftermarket replacements (without spending a small fortune).
I don't have a problem with the finish of the interior. I have an intolerable creak at the back of the center console, where the crazy storage compartment is. Every time I go around corners, the plastic groans. It's the point now where my girlfriend and I hear it constantly and it detracts from our enjoyment of the car.
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Besides questionable choices on plastic material, there is way too much reliance on molded in clips, black goop and double stick tape. Give me more little Phillips headed screws! (or, since it's GM, give me more Torq's). Feel the quality of the design engineering of the interior fails on so many levels.
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I'm pretty happy with the car. As for the tan interior getting scuffed, our BMW has a tan interior and it is scuffed along the door panel and I can't get it off. I'm very careful about not using my foot to open the door and yet the scuffs are there. That's why I went with the black interior on the Solstice. I just wish there was a little more storage inside the car.
The interior is fine for what it is, a low cost 2 seater. If it was a higher priced luxury convertable then yeah it would be lacking.
Give it a few months, there will be aftermarket wood kits, aluminum kits and carbon fiber kits for the interior just like they have for all cars.
Jim
The wood and carbon kits are already out. I plan on putting a wood kit in my GXP as soon as I get it. I never liked all black interiors and was really disapointed when I learned that they were not offering the steel/sand interior in the GXP.
The only issue I have are the seat belts. Most of the belts sit in the upper left or right corner of the seat of recent vehicles. They could easily have done that with the Solstice. BUT........mine is a keeper.
The only issue I have are the seat belts. Most of the belts sit in the upper left or right corner of the seat of recent vehicles. They could easily have done that with the Solstice. BUT........mine is a keeper.
I just don't like how the seat belts end up eating into the plastic wall at the side of the seat...
I have to agree about the seat buckles tearing up the plastic behind the seat. I know no one See's it but me, but I know it's there and it bugs me. If you should happen to bend the bonnet latch and you don't know you have and you try to latch it..it distorts the plastic around the latch opening...it bends it there is no bringing it back to shape.
Plastic interior scratches easily. Other than that interior is fine!
I just don't like how the seat belts end up eating into the plastic wall at the side of the seat...
I just recieved the air bag decals for the visors. For some reason I got 3 of them so I placed the 3rd on the area where the seat belt hits the plastic the most. Seems to work so far.
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Custom interior in my mule is very cool. Wood grain panels across the dash, dials and audio control areas of ebony interior. Want to add some on the int door panels along the bottom and around door speakers to cover scuffing on the plastic material.
I just recieved the air bag decals for the visors. For some reason I got 3 of them so I placed the 3rd on the area where the seat belt hits the plastic the most. Seems to work so far.