custom door skins!!!

[nizmokid]

Hi guys

I was thinking at changing the colour of the material pieces on the door trims to a yellow leather to match My r33 gts-t. Has anyone done this on there r33. any info or pics would be great.

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[akeenan]

you have a yellow r33 lucky! do you have pics?? i wanted a yellow one but decided it would be impossible to get one plus i dont want to pay for a respray

[NIZ30]

Not exactly.... I have changed these on my 32 to blue velour. But it will give you an idea on how it looks, cause the door trims are fairly similar. I did the work myself, but if I was doing it in leather I would get a professional to do it.

[Maddness]

Do you have any pics or instructions on how you did the retrim?

Thanks.

[nizmokid]

Nice! very nice! how did you stick the new material onto the door trims a step by step would be excellent.

Nizmokid:D

a pic for akeenan

[Guest INASNT]

sweet!

i was thinking of doin that 2 after i got my blue gear and handbrake leather boots

[NIZ30]

Let me just say this...the further away from my door the better it looks. If I had the money i would've got a pro to do it. But for experience sake I wanted to try this myself.

My technique (don't take this for gospel as it's fairly dodgy)

1 - Took material of door (was pulling up already so just pulled on it tho take it off)

2 - Pinned these to my blue material and cut around them.

3 - Took door trim off (should've done this first I guess)

4 - Unscrewed the map holder section. Placed some material over this and cut out.

5 - Glued this section down with PVA glue (i'm sure there is something better than this for the job, but all i could get my hands on) btw - I wouldn't pay someone to do this bit, it couldn't be easier as the section is flat

6 - Glued the cut out pieces to the top section. This is tricky. It is hard to get the material into the ridge arount the edge. I learnt here, cut the material slightly bigger than needed, glue flat section into place and dummy edges into position. If fit right the edges will hold into the ridge by themselves. Remove and glue.

7 - (the dodgy bit) Because I didn't do all of the above that way. Some of my edges wouldn't stay in the ridge (material too short, glue not sticky enough to hold down). So... A little dab of loctite soon stopped them from coming up. (i know dodgy) not too much though as it comes through the material (i learnt this).

[NIZ30]

I was initially going to put this material on my parcel shelf too. But seeing as you can't see the parcel shelf unless you put your head back there (i have very dark tint), and i screwed up the top section of my door, I may have another go at doing these.

I also have cut out the sections to go in the back. But I fear I have cut these too small too, and not too keen to take out this panel to find out. So I have yet to do this bit. One day when I'm bored I will have a go.

[51jay]

use Spraycan contact adhesive instead of PVA but get good quality stuff not the sh*t from the Dollar saver places. A friendly car upholsterer sold me 2 litres of the stuff to use in my paint spraygun

[nizmokid]

oh!:eek:

[skylark]

One rear trim was in the glovebox when the car arrived and the drivers one had come away slowly so I used some 3M pressure pack adhesive. The rear came off on the first hot day because I didn't use enough glue so I layered it on next time and it has survived heat ever since. I could not perfectly wrap each door pad because in production the material is heat shrunk onto the door making it stretch when off but this is only under closer inspection of edges etc oherwise looked ok.

Can you get trimmer's glue in pressure pack cans?

[akeenan]

a pic for akeenan

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