Sooo.... after over a year of saying I was going to do it, I finally got around to it.

A while back I painted my door panel from tan to black





But then I had this brilliant idea of dieing the fabric on it like i did with my carpet.

That was a bad idea, it looked horrible and felt nasty too.



So I pulled the door panel off, took a vice grip to the plastic welds holding the back of the plastic piece on. Popped the plastic piece out.







I peeled the fabric off and found this



So I took some purple power and a scrubby and scrubbed the glue/adhesive off



I laid out the new fabric and placed the old fabric over it so that I could trace it out.





Cut out the new fabric using the lines I traced



I sprayed down the plastic and the back of the fabric with 3m super 77 (actually I used a cheapo brand) and then pulled the fabric tight over



Wrapped the fabric around and cut little slits for the screws. I used screws in place of the plastic that I broke off.



And finally I put it in the car

 

not too bad.. it could have been better

 

very bad effort. SHOULD have been waaayy better.

next time.. iron the fabric first so you dont have wrinkles.. and stretch the fabric more so it forms to the plastic.. sorry.. but im just being honest.

 

damn i wasn't trying to hurt anyone's feelings...
but sine were being honest... it looks like you rushed it...

 

Not a bad effort, it looks like he took his time up until then. And he used vinyl. Cloth would've been much easier to deal with.

 

I did iron the fabric. One of the major issues was that I used vinyl and not cloth which is way harder to stretch.

The other issue was that I didn't use the 3m super 77. The second door panel came out WAY better using that, I gotta go back and do this one over.

 

post pics of the new results.

and vinyl is fine, you just should heat it as your stretch it over the panel. i used to work at a fabric store, so i know a little bit.

 

It looks like a decent job but the interior doesn't match.

 

Good to know. Thanks man. Should I heat it like with a heat gun or will a hot blow dryer work?