i seen a couple of fiberglassed doors... and some wrapped in suede (sp is wrong im sure) ... it does look better... but glassing is kinda expensive if you dont do it yourself...

also people have done their doors in Tweed ... i know on the other website a member has just about all their interior glassed out... looks hot..

j

 

can you just sand them down and paint them with krylon fusion or something else for plastics?

 

I thought about that BUT I have a few scratches on the lower part. I know I could just go to a junkyard and get new piece, but I might as well go the custom route ya know.

xotic, thats what I was thinking, wrapping in some type of material.Sounds pretty easy and very cheap. Do you happen to have a link.

ps: ive never fiberglassed before, so Im not sure Im capable of getting both doors to look alike :loser:

- Charles

 

link for tweed? nah.. i dont.. i do know that its not entirely to exspensive compared to other routes people take.. like glassing

the thing that always kept me from doing the door thing was when i go to sell the car.. it would be a huge hassle for me to take everything apart and go back stock.. but thats just me..

 

You can buy ANY material online. Most people use hotglue to adhere it, but you have to be careful or else you will see it through the material. A while ago me and my friend did the entire interior with a Luis Vuitton fabric he got online. Came pretty good although not my taste.

 

Heres a pic of my door panel.... i just fiberglassed and painted... now im not sure wat seats to get....

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:eek2: thats insane. It's so glossy it looks CG :lol:

 

Very sharp! :yesway:

 

That door looks incredible. Would you mind explaining what u did a little more?

 

If you made a fiberglass mold of the door panel, wouldnt it come out *slightly* too big b/c you were molding on the outside?

Maybe a dumb question, but never made sense to me :rofl:

 

sir charles...................... i never said i made a fiberglass molding of this door panel... i said ITS FIBERGLASSED AND PAINTED>.. ... meaning i put a thin coat of fiberglass on the panel... understand?

 

charles, you would have to make TWO molds for it to be a perfect fit. 1st make a mold of the door panel. Then make a mold of the inside of your 1st mold. At least I think thats how it would be done. A LOT of work.... Actually, I think the 1st mold would end up being called a "plug" but I'm not certain... Its been awhile since I researched FG.

 

yeah it will ive done it a hundred times, if you use spray paint it wont but i never use spray paint just real car paint, trust me and iceman it can look like that without fiberglass, also you can just put a thin layer of fiberglass over top of the sanded door panel and smooth that out too

 

if you spray the primer thats basically like fiberglassing... that i totally agree with...

i was saying it wouldnt look as good if you were to just sand the vinyl and spray paint it...

 

Don't glass it, just sand it down and Build Primer it!

 

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all of u's are right in one way or another... you can always do it the half ass way, or do it the right way..... as i mentioned before.... I DID NOT MAKE A FIBERGLASS MOLD OF MY PANEL... i just scuffed up the original panel and put a thin coat of fiberglass..... another thing for those of you's that said that paint will shine and stick just as good on the original panel as it would on fiberglass... ur wrong.. cuz paint will adhere better on fiberglass thas one reason why i did that... another thing... when u paint right over the original panels.. overtime.. it will start gettin sticky and it will crack.. i did that before.. and thas wat happened so i tried fiberglass and this is the best way...

 

all of u's are right in one way or another... you can always do it the half ass way, or do it the right way..... as i mentioned before.... I DID NOT MAKE A FIBERGLASS MOLD OF MY PANEL... i just scuffed up the original panel and put a thin coat of fiberglass..... another thing for those of you's that said that paint will shine and stick just as good on the original panel as it would on fiberglass... ur wrong.. cuz paint will adhere better on fiberglass thas one reason why i did that... another thing... when u paint right over the original panels.. overtime.. it will start gettin sticky and it will crack.. i did that before.. and thas wat happened so i tried fiberglass and this is the best way...

Wrong!! If that is true everyone would be demanding fiberglass body kits over poly-urethane (plastic). I and many others on this board have applied paint to interior panels that shine like the outside of our cars, with no flaking, cracking, or adhesion problems. While I agree that if you are painting plastic that is constantly bending, you would be required to add a flex additive to your product, door panels do not require it.

While what you did (fiberglass over panels) may look good to you, if you are not changing the shape of the panel, you wasted time.

 

We're not adhering paint to the panels, we're adhering primer. Primer is designed to stick to anything scuffed properly. You can enhance this by adding an adhesive promoter to the plasic. Fuck you can do it to the soft plastic on the steering-wheel and the airbag cover too. Sky's the limit. As said before, if you aren't adding material, fabricating new parts, or trying to make a fit, you don't need to fiberglass to get that finish...

 

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ur rite.. but wat im saying is... not the plastic part on our door panels.. but the leather part... that flex's when u push in.... that part... ive done that without fiberglass before.. and after about a year or 2.. the paint started cracking... i know i scuffed everything and did everything i could but i dont kno wat happened.... and the fiberglass part wasnt hard at all.. i just applied a thin coat.. both of us are right... but to get a better finish and a longer lasting finish.. i think what i did is better.. to me.. but yea ur right About scuffing and paintting.