DIY door trims

tobias · Postby **tobias** » Sat Sep 10, 2011 4:27 pm

had some time on my hands today so i decided to try make my self some door trims, ive always wanted to get rid of the door handles since they get in the way a fair bit so i thought this would be a good time to do so, enjoy my amazingly crappy photo skills, im trying at least haha

PaulF · Postby **PaulF** » Sat Sep 10, 2011 4:38 pm

Looks good. I would consider doing this as a way of neatly deleting the speakers. Did you use any guides for making them, or did you just play it by ear?

tobias · Postby **tobias** » Sat Sep 10, 2011 4:43 pm

i mainly used this one off clubroadster.net http://clubroadster.net/vb_forum/showthread.php?t=37935

but alot of it was by ear and winging it basically, took around an hour to do both sides, one of the cards is fairly rotten so i had to hot glue some aloy sheets onto it, bit dodgy but it worked

Apu · Postby **Apu** » Sat Sep 10, 2011 5:56 pm

Nice! I've been thinking of removing mine (NB) and using straps.

PaulF · Postby **PaulF** » Sat Sep 10, 2011 6:20 pm

Is the trim around the door speaker just held on with those little clips too? Would it be easy enough to actually remove the speaker and surrounding trim and then make a new door trim to cover the whole lot, deleting the speaker and surrounding trim altogether?

tobias · Postby **tobias** » Sat Sep 10, 2011 7:11 pm

Yeah it's only held on by those trim clips, you could do it but it would be a fair effort to re-design the door trim and a speaker hole, it's easy enough just to re-cover it, maybe I'll look into covering the speaker cover in something

Mr Morlock · Postby **Mr Morlock** » Sat Sep 10, 2011 8:14 pm

old cars often had plain door trims-no door pockets no moulded arm rests - sometimes just a separate arm rest fixed with 2 screws. Simple construction- a board cut to shape some vinyl coated fabric a little padding such as new fangled foam or cotton wadding and to fix it in place wire clips or canoe clips. To remake it was hard to get the vcf to conform on the radius; and you had to of course glue the folded edges to the board.

Postby **NitroDann** » Sat Sep 10, 2011 8:25 pm

You could do an NA with just a flat board of thin HDF with vinyl etc over it. Its dead flat with just stuff bolted to it.

Dann

tobias · Postby **tobias** » Sat Sep 10, 2011 8:32 pm

I'm going to bolt a door pull to them but I forgot to buy the material, thats the next thing on the list

Postby **NitroDann** » Sat Sep 10, 2011 8:45 pm

What are you going to use?

Dann

tobias · Postby **tobias** » Sat Sep 10, 2011 8:51 pm

The stuff kind of looks like a small seat belt and some bicycle bar ends on the ends of the handles, should look alrite once it's done

Postby **NitroDann** » Sat Sep 10, 2011 8:57 pm

Yeah like my old ones. I reckon a nice leather handle like a nice briefcase would be nice too.

Dann

tobias · Postby **tobias** » Sat Sep 10, 2011 9:09 pm

Yeah that's true maybe I'll destroy an old belt of mine

Bizi · Postby **Bizi** » Sat Sep 10, 2011 10:08 pm

Or go the GT3 look.

From clubroadster:

It's a thread on putting NA style custom door cards on NB. One for Bryan!

I'd like to put the NB inner door handle on my NB, so that's another option for us NA people.

Door pulls instead of handles. Just suggesting. Plus there is a GT3 flouro green (for -Alex) door pull available from BRT.