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Well I'm gonna take on the project of redoing my door panels. Mainly replacing the stock vinyl with a different color, replacing the fabric on the door panel with a different fabric and different color.

Do you guys have any reccomendations of either fabric stores or fabrics I should look at? I'm looking at replacing the blue fabric with suede, and the light blue vinyl with a different color vinyl. Anything to stay away from? Look at, etc?

I dont know why I want suede so bad, I just think it would be cool. White vinyl with black suede, who knows.

Thanks guys.

I been wanting to do this to my door panles too. Is this hard to do? I never have messed with anything fabric. Suede is more of a furry silk texture right?

when I used to make door panels I used heavy material that was foam backed, from a conversion van shop locally.
they had rolls and rolls of the stuff in any color you could think up.. along with the industrial sewing machines for doing the stitching

like this Kiki?

https://garysupholstery.com/foamback.html

just like that, yup

Select Products come out with a new suede synthetic.

Looks nice.

http://www.selectproducts.com

KikiTheCat wrote:just like that, yup

Well I pulled back a little of the vinyl on my door panel and saw there is foam underneath. Do you think it would be easier to strip the vinyl+foam off and replace with foam backed vinyl, or just strip the vinyl off and put un-backed vinyl over the stock foam?

The vinyl seems to peel of the foam rather easy, but I don't have experience with this so I don't know what would be easier. Price isnt a factor.

Ryan: Thanks for that site, didn't know about it. Ever bought from there? That suede is $26/yd and other sites have it for cheaper, but if that place is quality, I'd rather buy from there. Let me know, thanks.

Select Product isnt the cheapest place on the net. But as the name states its all Select Products- not 1 million and 1 products Ive bought some stuff off them. Vinyl and Grille Cloth. Both are of high quality. I would assume if they say its high quality- its high quality!

leave the foam on the vinyl unless you're using spray adhesive.. otherwise it'll just settle to the bottom of the door and look lumpy later, like bad insulation in a wall.