Retrimmed My Door Card Today

[The Simps]

Slowly but surely I'm converting my interior to black. First I had a load of plastic bits sprayed and done my carpets too. Next on my list was my doorcards as the resprayed bits looked a little out of place.

As it was:-



Stripped off the old cover:-



Cut the material to shape:-



Started to stick it all down:-



Put the tray bit on:-



Trial fitted before cutting speaker hole:-



Speaker fitted and finished product:-




The pictures don't do it justice, looks much better in the flesh especially compared to the red.

This is actually a trial fitment and I used sub box style carpet. When I get my new seats and get the rears retrimmed in alcantara to match I was gonna have the door cards done too. I like the look of this tho so we'll see how it goes. Just got the ther side to do now!

Comments welcome.

Simps.

[Benn]

nice.....
mine look better tho..
xxx

[OllyHewitt]

Looks nice Simps - well done mate

I know what you mean about the pics, the stuff is horrible to take a pic of using flash!

Gonna be having a good mooch around it at PV

[The Simps]

Benn ur an idiot.

Cheers Olly

Simps

[alistairk]

looks good, wanna come do mine?

[Byron]

nice.....
mine look better tho..
xxx

You lack door cards at the minute mate, let alone recovered ones lmao

[Benn]

lol,
so? the ones i have are sexy...
they look great tho simps

[MuppetMule]

Not bad at all.

Only thing that would have made a better job maybe, would be to of sewn some padding to the rear of the black material you used, this makes it more plush and gives it some lines too.

[turbo matt]

good effort there mate!

[The Simps]

Thanks for the kind replies

Simps.

[Davcohen]

Nice job there is it hard to get the stuff to stick on?

[Adam]

great pics and idea mate shame bout the fold mark though can u iron it?

cheers adam

i fitted vinyl covering to my rear shelf on the cav feck me u know how hard it is! im still seeing bubbles like warts

[The Simps]

Nice job there is it hard to get the stuff to stick on?

Not a problem - just used spray glue on the front and some special double sided tape on the backs for the folds. Don't ask me what it is as I "borrowed" it from the bodyshop when I worked in a garage about 3yrs ago!

great pics and idea mate shame bout the fold mark though can u iron it?

The camera has picked up the fold mark but you can't see it in real life well not easily anyway!


Simps.

[/\STR/\]

I think it looks good and neat

speaker carpet isnt to my taste, but atleast youve given it a go and it looks good!


i was thinking about doing the interiour of mine in like a fake leather material, maybe if i can get hold of the material ill have a crack at it my self like you did

[Vauxnova]

try to aviod touching it i did this agges ago on my nova and it did a great job of going fuzzy after 6 months

[AL]

Very nicely done dude!

What sort of paint did you use to do the plastics, just rattle can stylee?

Do the dash to match

[/\STR/\]

try to aviod touching it i did this agges ago on my nova and it did a great job of going fuzzy after 6 months

yep!!!

[Anthony]

Looks good

p.s. fancy putting your new brakes onto mine pleeease

[Ian H]

looking good

MUCH better than what it was before

[The Simps]

I think it looks good and neat

speaker carpet isnt to my taste, but atleast youve given it a go and it looks good!

It wasn't my first choice either but I had a roll lying around and thought at least it was an improvement/step in the right direction. "Ideally" it will be retrimmed with the rest of the car in alcantara.

Very nicely done dude!

What sort of paint did you use to do the plastics, just rattle can stylee?

Do the dash to match

Mate's a sprayer in a bodyshop. he done them for me using the propper prep and paint etc. Charges me next to nowt.

The dash will either be retrimmed, flocked or swapped for a GSi item.


Anthony - No.

Simps.

[Anthony]

Anthony - No.

Dam