Finished Door Panels--

lotas · Post by **lotas** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 6:05 pm

Well heres the passenger finished, not done with driver yet. The door breaks down into three pieces, the bottom piece is painted black (matte), the "middle" piece is black vinyl, the nice stuff that feels like leather, and then the left over section is grey carpet. I was hesitant about the grey at first, thinking I should use black, but I ended up going with it.

edit: I ran and took a pic of the stock panel, this is from a back door:

Bwcad1 · Post by **Bwcad1** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 6:08 pm

i like it deffinly nice

ridr4lif · Post by **ridr4lif** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 6:45 pm

That looks real good man. Keep up the good work.

tedd

Justin from Detroit1 · Sun Oct 02, 2005 7:01 pm

So how hard was it? What's ya use?

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 7:56 pm

I like that, very clean looking, much improved over the stock grey color. I'd paint the door lock, door handle cup, and the power window cups either black or a grey that's a shade more similar to the carpet you used.

audiocr381ve · Post by **audiocr381ve** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 12:42 am

It looks good man! Yea, so what'd you use, and how'd ya do it?

Darthness · Post by **Darthness** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 3:02 am

Ryan from Ohio · Post by **Ryan from Ohio** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 3:04 am

Not sure how you got the vinyl/suede to cove them radii's but good job!

Mon Oct 03, 2005 1:45 pm

That looks nice, the dark color really makes it look nice.

lotas · Post by **lotas** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 1:56 pm

It wasnt too bad, the vinyl was pretty damn tough and I might end up changing the layout on the other three doors and redoing that one. I would end up putting carpet where the vinyl is now, and Vinyl where the carpet is now, not sure how it would look, but it would take a fraction of the time.

For the vinyl I just used contact cement, and before I went to apply it I heated it up a bit with a heat gun. It was extremeley difficult to do around the control console and such where it is concave/convex as you had to stretch it a lot, but when you stretch it, it makes a different design in the vinyl (hard to explain)..but it took a lot of time and Im not 100% satisfied with the look. And Jonathan I do plan on painting those pieces, I think I'm gonna go with black.

Thanks for the responses guys, I will do a test with my idea of switching the vinyl and carpet on a back door and post some pics of how it looks and see what you think. I know it wont look as good but hopefully not too bad.