Door panel project

[Young Ed]

Finally scored some material I like. A Joanns is moving here and they are clearancing out the old store. Got a little over 12y of a dark grey for $20. Got the big can of 3m super spray adhesive. My 2 items I'm unclear on at the moment. What filler goes between the panel and the material and how to reuse the chrome strip at the bottom.

[BobT-47P15]

Ed, I think the material between was cotton batting.

Not sure how that trim strip at the bottom works.

[55 Fargo]

1/4 inch foam, works great on door panels or kick panels, and is exaclty what I used, lot of shops do to........Fred

[greg g]

I used cotton batting. the strip at the bottom can be carefully uncrimped the old stuff removed and the new material added. then is't just a matter of recompressing the metal. Its been a while but I used a piec of wood and a plastic mallet. I ued a bit of hot glue every couple inches to help keep it located while re crimping it. I have some picures but they aren't digital, and I don't know where they ended up. I found the vinyl leatherette also at the fabric store.

[Joe Flanagan]

Wow, that's a big relief to me, that they still make vinyl leatherette. There's quite a lot of it in my interior and I was wondering if it was still available anywhere.

[BobT-47P15]

In looking at a door bottom trim, i see the material edge goes into a small

groove both above and below the part that shows. Greg seems to have

a system for that. On the back of the strip are some small spikes that

attach it to the panel. Several of my spikes are broken off. So, if I

were to try and use the strip, maybe glue would hold it in place.

Not sure how a person could invent new attaching tabs.

[Young Ed]

The top strip has tabs but I think the bottom one was stapled on when new. David M said not to try and unbend that original piece. I think his guy attached it over the top of it somehow. Here's what the material looks like.

[BobT-47P15]

I think that if there is not much stress at that point, the material could

be glued to the flat area on either side of the trim.....without tucking

it into the groove.

Or, maybe tucked in with a small instrument like a thin putty knife blade,

rather than prying it open. Just my un-expert observations.

[P-12 Tommy]

Finally scored some material I like. A Joanns is moving here and they are clearancing out the old store. Got a little over 12y of a dark grey for $20. Got the big can of 3m super spray adhesive. My 2 items I'm unclear on at the moment. What filler goes between the panel and the material and how to reuse the chrome strip at the bottom.

Ed, I've got a Joann Fabric by me. Is there a number on that dark grey?

Thanks, Tom

[Young Ed]

There is on the receipt I'll post it when I get home.

[BobT-47P15]

Of course, you can skip the bottom trim and have solid color panel like

this person did.

Or just stitch across the joining area of fbric and scuff panel without any trim.

[Young Ed]

Im not ready to skip the bottom piece yet. We'll see I may get to that point.

That picture reminds me. I either need some new arm rests or a way to fix mine. The top 1/2 of mine that was some sort of foam I believe it pretty much gone.

[Plymouthy Adams]

Ed..the upholestry shop could not re use the lower trim on my 54 either...the way it is crimped it is next to impossible to undo and reuse. They made the transistion with a mand made vinyl bead of matching material to create the divider...I also specified tha the lower part of my panel would not gop back in vinyl and used loope pile carpet instead..the pleat along with the way they stitched the three together looks great...here is a shot of the back quarter showing the carpet, vinyl trim and then the tweed fabric..I could probably get you close ups later if you are interested...this was taken in their shop during work..their markings are shown but never seen when they cleanup...the top chrome strip is of a different variety and rusable..

[Young Ed]

Wow Tim I didn't realize they were still using that same stuff across the bottom in 54. I'm going to try and attach the bottom piece to the board and just put the material up to it. Greg is the only person I've ever heard of successfully unbending that stuff. I'd rather not go hunting for it.

[Plymouthy Adams]

Greg spent a lot of time if he undid that stuff....its quite the crimp..I probably would have fought it had I not dedided early on I wanted carpet along the bottom of the doors..the carpet is a lot thicker than the chrome strip would ever accomodiate..

[Young Ed]

Ya I played with it a little bit on some extra trim pieces I had. Looks to be quite the challenge. I have 2 sets of the upper parts for the doors. No extras of any of the rest.

[Young Ed]

Found this i started a long time ago. Tells some about how to do the stainless

http://www430.pair.com/p15d24/mopar_forum/showthread.php?t=13845&highlight=door+panel&page=2

[P15Mike]

Ed , I removed the lower trim off the parts car . It's held on by what i'll call staples to the panel and the material i believe was held on with glue . Pretty much what Greg has already stated above , was about 2 years ago , so i'm going only off memory . Mine weren't so hard to remove as the panels were shot , my guess was from water damage over the years .

Mike

[Young Ed]

Number on the reciept listed is 400016012934

[P-12 Tommy]

Thanks Ed

Tom

[dndrodshop]

Here's what I can up with using 3M and fabric. No foam between over the RODDOORS ABS plastic sheets.

RODDOORS was closed last time I checked but ABS plastic should be available elsewhere.

[aero3113]

dndrodshop,that looks really nice without using foam

[55 Fargo]

Hey like the sill mat with the Pentastar........

[mackster]

I am pulling for you ED! you can do it!

[Frank Elder]

The foamless door panels look really good but, I gotta have foam as I am a habitual door elbower...I guess my proximity alarm just doesn't work like it used to.