Repair door card

Fri Jan 07, 2011 12:16 am

Where those plastic clips go on the door card, the hole is damaged. Does anyone know what I can use to repair the split hole?

Fri Jan 07, 2011 8:23 am

You mean the cardboard panel Mo? It's not easy, I've never been successful. Hopefully someone will come up with a fix we havn't thought of before as it would make a good sticky.

Problem is, once the cardboard is split and blown, theres no way of compressing it back together and give it some strength back.

Probably best start looking for a better panel.

Fri Jan 07, 2011 2:06 pm

Yeah I guess. Not going to be easy finding one in Pearl Beige though.

Fri Jan 07, 2011 2:17 pm

How easy does the vinyl/leather peel off of the hardboard ?

I've seen it done on other cars where they have made a new hardboard card form the old template and then glued the material back on.

Fri Jan 07, 2011 4:49 pm

Mo, can you take a picture so that I can see what you're talking about. I have some ideas, but it would help if I can see the offending item.

Mon Jan 10, 2011 8:43 am

12345kevin wrote:How easy does the vinyl/leather peel off of the hardboard ?

I've seen it done on other cars where they have made a new hardboard card form the old template and then glued the material back on.

I bought a tatty card with a good backing board and had this done by a motor trimmer. He didn't charge much (also getting other stuff down) and it came up pretty well.