An alternative to the poor fitting 4thgen door panels
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An alternative to the poor fitting 4thgen door panels
I have 4thgen panels in my car right now. But let's face it they have many flaws and need a ton of work and will never look 100% on the money. So opted to blend the newer T/A panels with 4thgen components.
It's fairly easy to do I did a bit of glassing to get everything right and it looks pretty much factory I also used some of the 4thgen back board to get the outline for the handle area just right. It's also a good choice for those with stock dashes and want a nicer panel. I am going to make some speaker boxes at work that will go where the map pocket was. I also bought some nice vinyl to do these in but I do not have the skill at this point to work with vinyl and get it to look perfect so I chose felt for now.
Here is a few pics:
Started with this idea:
There is no good way to make the lower part work it just doesn't flow all that well so I ditched that part.
Basicly you glass in this area so you can make it smooth for the material , I bonded the 4thgen backboard handle area and then glassed over it , then sand sand and sand some more.
Glassing/test
It's fairly easy to do I did a bit of glassing to get everything right and it looks pretty much factory I also used some of the 4thgen back board to get the outline for the handle area just right. It's also a good choice for those with stock dashes and want a nicer panel. I am going to make some speaker boxes at work that will go where the map pocket was. I also bought some nice vinyl to do these in but I do not have the skill at this point to work with vinyl and get it to look perfect so I chose felt for now.
Here is a few pics:
Started with this idea:
There is no good way to make the lower part work it just doesn't flow all that well so I ditched that part.
Basicly you glass in this area so you can make it smooth for the material , I bonded the 4thgen backboard handle area and then glassed over it , then sand sand and sand some more.
Glassing/test
Last edited by The_Wraith; 01-11-2009 at 02:02 PM.
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Re: An alternative to the poor fitting 4thgen door panels
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Re: An alternative to the poor fitting 4thgen door panels
Looks cool I would have gone with a Vinyl or something but definetly a good alternative. Might steal ur Idea
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