You don’t have to deal with the manufacturer’s stiff depreciating fabrics and plastic surfaces. For a clean, sophisticated design that reflects your lifestyle, you can treat your car’s interior to a personal or luxury makeover. And this can range from comfortable seats to leather dashboard trim and bespoke steering wheels.
The future car emphasizes cabin experience through exceptional car interior. Whether you want a personal touch, premium features, added comfort, or upsell at a profit, car interior modification can make it possible.
Read on to learn some car interior design ideas worth trying.
- Upgrade the Dashboard
Your dashboard can enhance your cabin experience. There are a couple of ways to modify it to make it more intuitive, functional, and stylish.
- Add a sleek infotainment touch screen; it can be a pop-up or permanent fixture.
- Upgrade the dashboard cover to a more appealing and bespoke material like leather or wood.
- Add advanced gauges, including a tire pressure monitoring system.
If you’re not modifying the whole dashboard, adding aftermarket infotainment touch screens may leave some cut areas. But, these can easily be concealed with a stylish finish.
But, some cars already have bespoke dashboards and overall interior; you can only add limited customized items. The Toyota Corolla Cross may need a few additions like a wireless charger, a front digital recorder, etc. Such custom post-production installations can add to Corolla Cross’s fuel economy and attractive pricing.
- Add Steering Wheel Covers
The steering wheel plays a critical role in your car’s interior aesthetics. Carmakers are currently trying to emphasize steering wheel design. But you can still get your aftermarket covers for your steering wheels.
There are a variety of materials you can choose from, with genuine leather amongst the expensive ones. Besides aesthetics, steering wheel covers also adds:
- Grip
- Comfort
You may also opt for a complete upgrade of the whole steering wheel, especially if you want quicker steering. Most aftermarket steering wheels are smaller and fitter, thus offering a more precision driving experience.
But, Florida Toyota dealers warn that an approved service center should do such wholesome changes. Otherwise, it can void your insurance and increase safety risks, especially when the airbag is not installed correctly. It will need proper flashing and authentication that can only be done by an expert serviceman or an approved service center.
- Customize Car Seats
The car seat covers more than half of your car interior space. So, it’s an essential element of your car interior that should get an upgrade if it doesn’t fit your style.
Benefits of customized car seats range from a stylish interior makeover to enhancing your driving position, increasing safety, and giving your car a sporty feel. Aftermarket seats are a popular interior improvement.
But, go for what’s within your budget and matches your overall car interior’s look and feel. Synthetic leather is the least expensive material you can get. But, for deeper pockets, you can get the genuine leather to spruce up and make your seats give your interior a plush sensation.
However, contact your insurance company on your planned modification to ensure it does not void your insurance claims.
- Add Floor Mat
Your floor mat is another visible element of your car interior. Add a decorative one if the standard one gives an odd look and dulls the overall ambiance. Moreover, your floor mat protects the car interior panels from dust and dirt particles.
Although they come in different textures and designs, you must choose them carefully because they can be challenging to clean. Those made of rubber are preferable because they easily trap dirt and are equally easy to clean. Yet, the felt-mats have an excellent flair but need frequent cleaning. The ones made of both are perfect for the job and the ambiance.
- Add Ambient LED Lights
A perfect way to recreate the lounge atmosphere in your car is through ambient LED lights. They have unlimited use cases, from under-panel fixtures to dashboard strips. Besides, they have a variety of colors, allowing you infinite options for customization.
The best part is that most of them are controlled using a remote, allowing you to change the colors based on your mood and taste.
- Include Storage Pouches
While doing your upholstery, you reduce the visual clutter of your car by including storage pouches on the car seats. Although most cars come with bottle holders and other storage spaces, you can quickly run out of room to stack a few more.
Attachable pouches can help increase your storage options. You can attach them to any car seat area and hold anything from notebooks to bottles.
- Add USB Plugin Outlets & Cable Guides
You don’t want cables hanging around while charging or using your phone as a GPS navigator or music source. It will be a major inconvenience to your driving experience. Cable guides will not only reduce the visual clutter but also make your driving easy.
Adding a USB plugin will ensure you don’t worry about a low battery charge on your phone.
- Add a Phone Holder
A firm phone holder will be ideal for convenient GPS tracking using your phone. But avoid using your phone for calling or texting while driving. Many accidents happen when drivers are distracted and this will increase their auto insurance rates. We recommend the usage of the phone docks only when using your phone for GPS or music. Also, do not leave it on the dock when parked because it may attract thieves.
- Style Up the Pedals, Shifter Knob, & Handbrake
Still, in your cabin, you can spruce up your gear knob, handbrakes, and pedals. Although they are less conspicuous, they are still visible interior elements. Covers for each element come in different textures and materials.
For the hand brakes and gear knobs, go for stylish covers that offer comfort and grip. The pedals covers should be comfortable, too, especially to reduce your leg fatigue in long-distance trips.
