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Old 10-09-2016, 07:41 PM
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Default Re-trimming door cards-newage

Already replaced interior to black spec c seats and been unable to source a set of matching door cards so thought would re-trim myself with a little help from the old man as all the trimmers i enquired wanted approx £200 to do this,so thought would have a go if ballsed it up would just take it to them.

so thought i would take a few pics(not the best quality of finished article) and do a quick guide in case it helps someone else out

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Screwdriver
knife
dremel
tin of Evo stick time-bond
and finally some suede material

Remove door card


Undo 3 screws on the back of door card



Then you need to either cut off the very top part of the plastic rivets or use a dremel to take the heads of which is much easier and saves cutting fingers to bits then when all removed it should pop off and the door card will split in two parts





Then clean up all the black bits of plastic left on the back of the doorcard



Remove the existing blue suede part



Then its just a case of cutting the new piece of material gluing both sides leaving to dry for a while then take your time and slide the top part into place first and then smooth the rest out,leave to dry and then make the holes through the new material.

Then a case of putting the door card back together attach the three original screws and then i used small screws where all the plastic rivets was but if you had a glue gun or something im sure you could re-do them





Attach door card back on to door and then another 3 to do lol





All done for the price of about £25 and pretty pleased with the end result
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Old 10-09-2016, 08:13 PM
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Looking good
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Old 10-09-2016, 08:27 PM
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Excellent work.
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Old 10-09-2016, 09:20 PM
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that does look good
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Old 10-09-2016, 09:35 PM
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Cracking results, looks very good and saved a load of money too! Nice little write up I am sure some brave souls will find useful in the future.
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Old 10-09-2016, 11:32 PM
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Great job, as you said if it went pear shape. ........but it's looks spot on.
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Old 11-09-2016, 07:57 AM
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Looking good i will be doing similar thing on both our classics soon thanks for inspiration

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Old 11-09-2016, 08:27 AM
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mate good effort!!
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Old 11-09-2016, 11:19 AM
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Nice work!

I had considered doing this myself a few years back when I swapped blue STI seats into my WRX, but took one off and wasn't sure if I'd balls up the plastic heat-melted rivets. Took the safe option and sourced some STI cards as well, but good to see it can be done
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Old 11-09-2016, 11:40 PM
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Good job, and nice saving too!
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Old 12-09-2016, 08:38 AM
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as above - cracking work and nice result
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Old 12-09-2016, 05:02 PM
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cheers guys if anyone decides to do there ones and wants some material deffo got enough for one set of door cards possibly even two lots. (dont want anything for it)
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I'm a bit late at seeing this thread, but excellent work Dave they look great mate
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