Well, I thought I'd make one of these since I never have before and I had some
spare time today. I decided to upgrade my rear panel to match my seats

Supplies:

Fabric

Spray Adhesive

Scissors

Here's what it looks like before:


First I removed the panel so I could start working on it. I took out the 3rd brake
light 1st, then I un-did the clips on the bottom of the panel from inside the trunk.
Once I had the panel out and the speaker covers off of it, I could start to remove
the stock fabric by simply pulling it off. It came off in one piece pretty easily:


Once I got the whole piece off I set it on top of the new fabric and used a sharpee
to trace it where I was gonna cut it. I traced the piece upside down so the marks
wouldn't show up on the finished product:


From there I checked the piece to make sure it was accurate so I could start the
gluing process. I started by laying the piece on top of the panel where it would go:


Then I started to glue it by spraying the adhesive on the panel starting from the
middle. I just pulled back a little section of the fabric and started to spray sections
at a time so I could have time to fix a problem if it were to come up. I made sure
I would smooth out each section as I adhered it to the panel once I sprayed it:


Once it dried I just checked the edges to make sure they were secure and were
not gonna pull apart. I put the speaker covers back on it and looked like this:


Then I put it back in the car, it was too dark to take a picture, maybe tomorrow?
The whole process didn't take me too long and it looks way better. If you read
this, let me know what you think, thanks. Peace!

Cali-Luv



Modified by jdmcd7_cali-luv at 7:08 PM 2/28/2007

 

good job

 

looks nifty, in for installed pics

 

dope

 

thanks for the write-up I wouldn't have enough patience to not get any creases or wrinkles

 

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To my surprise it was quite easy to make it smooth, wrinkles weren't a problem

 

Nice I think the speaker panels would look better black... just a thought

 

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True...but i'm over it now

 

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haha I can understand that. Wasnt trying to hate or anything, just saying. Good diy though

 

looks really good

 

In for install pics

 

i did that with my door panels.

haha nice monkey

 

 

DIY's

In for install pics with the rest of the ******

 

watched topics

 

in for final product!

 

should've use better material, those mom's and ghey partner cloth doesn't have much uv protection like automotive grade trim.

in other word, it might faded to pink if you park under the sun for a while

 

thanks, i guess i'll find out though...

 

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Here's the finished product: what do you think?



I know the window is dirty...

 

Looks good, but it would look better if you painted the 3rd brake light and speaker covers black.

 

damn now your car is JDM!!!

 

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I like it! I dunno if I would try painting the speaker cover...jus cuz it looks like some kinda meshy fabric going on...but maybe the third brakelight cover? could be rice, but I say color match anything you decide to paint! Black would look good as well, but colormatching gets my vote

 

^^ agreed. paint them plastics black!

but good work. everyone seems to be loving the red this month. must've been valentines. lol