Hey guys. I'm getting my seats redone somehow or somewere (not sure yet) and I want to redo my door pannels because i mean...the purple red crap stuff thats on there is just no good. But i have one problem: I dON"t know how to do it.
All i need to know is how to put another fabric onto the door? I did a quick search, and not much came up...i just need a how to or some simple instructions real quick. Do you just glue it? What kinda glue? I've hear the heat will just melt it...
I saw some very nice door panels redone in taras's car
but how did he get em on? Any help is appreaciated!
Taras's door was done professionally. As far as your search results go, you should have found ample there, because it is there. Yes the panel material is glued. Your search should have also told you that the MX door panels is in the top 5 as the most difficult car door panels to refinish. That said, I don't think you'll find explicit "How to's" on this matter except seeing the results of some members attempts. There are too many compound angles.
I just tried "Door recover" instead of "Door panel" got the results you did. I took a look at berry's page, not very detailed, but helpfull none the less. Other than that, there wasn't much.
Seeing as there are so many different ways of recovering our door pannels, some which work and some which don't, perhaps it woudl be a good idea to creat some kind of thread of everyone who has redone their door pannel one way or another. This thread would include a step-by-step on the procedure, problems and difficulties, list of adhesives that work and do not work, and basically a general idea of how people have redone they're doors in the past.
What do you think? After we could throw it in the FAQ, could be very vital.
If any of you out there have redone your door pannels, hook it up with a how to in this thread.
Honestly no offence dude but regardless of threads you find here the only way is to do it yourself. I had a look at mine and yes the shape is a problem. What I would suggest is , because you hate what you got- strip it and use what you take off as a template. Better still, get some paper and make your own template. I think you'll be extremely lucky to get it off in one piece but you should get a good idea. Think of the bigger shape and some cuts in the curves but outside the visible overlap of the door skin and insert.
In other words - where it curves, extend the material pattern and slice the edge to give some flex in the pattern. A hot air gun or even a hairdryer is a perfect companion . You hate what you got so it dont matter if u fcuk it ? Use a hotairgun to get it off, some butcher paper and then exrtend that pattern by 2 inches and cut the edge to accommodate the door latch etc. Hope this helps...
jschrauwen wrote:Has anyone ever considered dying the fabric material while it's in place?
sure you can dye them, but then you've still got that stupid texture from the old material and you could probably only go with black since you can't go any lighter than the darkest original color.
i have tried to cover my door panels and if you just want to do the inserts you have to cut a long the grove where the fabric and rest of the door panel meet and the peel it off but i think that it would be quicker and take less time to just tape off the space around the insert and put some fiberglass rein on it then paint it and i think that would look better any way
I've tried fiberglassing over the fabric, stripping the fabric off, and also recovering it with leather.
The one conclusion I came to was that it's not worth the time and effort.
Pay a professional to recover them, it's not that expensive. Especially once you consider how much time it takes to do it yourself.
Covering in leather is difficult because it wrinkles easily. Heating it helps to get it the stretch it around the curves. I still had a couple of small wrinkles that were impossible to get out. However, after a year it peels up anyway.
In addition, getting the edges to be seamless and clean is incredibly difficult.
