Redoing some Door Panels

billbates40 · Post by **billbates40** » Fri Jun 24, 2011 12:00 am

I took off my door panel to remount my speakers. Here is what it looked like.

billbates40 · Post by **billbates40** » Fri Jun 24, 2011 12:03 am

I'll post the final results once I get my speakers and everything mounted. Hopefully she don't rattle.

fordman · Post by **fordman** » Fri Jun 24, 2011 12:31 am

how did you get the vinyl to form so tightly around those letters?

billbates40 · Post by **billbates40** » Fri Jun 24, 2011 12:41 am

fordman wrote:how did you get the vinyl to form so tightly around those letters?

You have to stretch the vinyl, I really needed to even stretch mine more. The store I went to had 4-5 different grades of vinyl, just make sure you get the kind that can stretch. I used foam from a craft store, you can get the pages for about a buck and a half, to cut out the letters. A good tip is the bigger (not thicker) the letters the easier it is.

fordman · Post by **fordman** » Fri Jun 24, 2011 12:43 am

so the flames and letters are made of foam? so i could make any design i wanted under a panel like that.

Caseys71 · Post by **Caseys71** » Fri Jun 24, 2011 12:49 am

, Nice work so far! Bet they'll look really sharp installed back in the bump

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billbates40 · Post by **billbates40** » Fri Jun 24, 2011 1:08 am

fordman wrote:so the flames and letters are made of foam? so i could make any design i wanted under a panel like that.

Yeah. I just found a font I liked that wasn't too fancy. The ford emblem would be tough cause of the writing. The foam I got at Joann Fabrics. It is called Foamies and is 3mm thick.

I went down to a stereo installation place and asked for some tips. The installers do this all the time with speaker boxes and they were very helpful.

I used DAP contact cement to attach the vinyl to the wood.

billbates40 · Post by **billbates40** » Fri Jun 24, 2011 1:15 am

Now to see about doing the headliner.

fordman · Post by **fordman** » Fri Jun 24, 2011 7:33 pm

billbates40 wrote:Now to see about doing the headliner.

now thats an idea and a half.

zoomer · Post by **zoomer** » Sat Jun 25, 2011 5:54 am

What did you do about the mounting clips? I've been looking at doing this same thing.

billbates40 · Post by **billbates40** » Sat Jun 25, 2011 10:05 am

zoomer wrote:What did you do about the mounting clips? I've been looking at doing this same thing.

That is the question. Right now I don't have any clips on it. I do have holes in the wood that match up with holes in the door and I was going to use dry wall anchors in the door holes then screws through the wood. I put foam weather stripping behind the wood in places to make sure I didn't get rattles and once I hung it to check fit I found it is on pretty tight with out putting the screws in (fingers crossed). I'll run it like that for a little bit to see if I can get away with out using any clips.

Joshpow · Post by **Joshpow** » Sat Jun 25, 2011 10:12 am

u want to do me a headliner?? i want flames or a big ford oval with ford script lettering!!

billbates40 · Post by **billbates40** » Sat Jun 25, 2011 5:45 pm

Joshpow wrote:u want to do me a headliner?? i want flames or a big ford oval with ford script lettering!!

Nice! I'll do mine and see what is involved, maybe I can make some extra.

Joshpow · Post by **Joshpow** » Sat Jun 25, 2011 5:50 pm

man i really like those panels. they are definately gonna look much better than the old ones.

Whateverman · Post by **Whateverman** » Sat Jun 25, 2011 6:56 pm

that's trick! how hard was it to get the vinyl to stretch around the script and flames?

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