Tips on redoing the door panels...

84blkstang · Sep 19, 2005

MY door panels are ghetto as hell.... the guy i bought the car from put some 4x6 speakers in there and cut a hole, than he cut some wood out and stapled some screen over it for the speaker grill..... now this looks ****ty as hell and it needs fixed i want to redo the whole door panel. The wood backing has gotten wet on both sides and is warped also so i need tips and pics on how you guys redid your panels any help is appreaciated. I would like to switch to the 87-93 doors panels but i dont have any of the switches but that is besides the point. please tell me how to take it apart w/o destroying it making it worse than it already is...it wouldnt take much. Thanks again

04sleeper · Sep 19, 2005

You can drill out the rivits on the metal top that curves around and attaches to the door. Then you could buy some masonite and cut it to shape and cover it it vinyl to match your interior. Or you could do a little more. There are many ways to change or modify your panel once you start working on. I redid mine and added some speakers to the mix. Heres what they looked like.

Black 93 Fox · Sep 19, 2005

Sweet looking door panel where did you buy the material from?

89sleeper said:
You can drill out the rivits on the metal top that curves around and attaches to the door. Then you could buy some masonite and cut it to shape and cover it it vinyl to match your interior. Or you could do a little more. There are many ways to change or modify your panel once you start working on. I redid mine and added some speakers to the mix. Heres what they looked like.

04sleeper · Sep 19, 2005

Black 93 Fox said:
Sweet looking door panel where did you buy the material from?

Thanks. Actually a buddy of mine got it for me some place in West Palm Beach, Florida. Any local trim shop should be able to get you a close match to the stock stuff.

Black 93 Fox · Sep 19, 2005

What did you use for the mold that holds the speaker? Also what do you mean by a trim shop just like a fabric store???

89sleeper said:
Thanks. Actually a buddy of mine got it for me some place in West Palm Beach, Florida. Any local trim shop should be able to get you a close match to the stock stuff.

RsStanG1987 · Sep 19, 2005

89sleeper said:
You can drill out the rivits on the metal top that curves around and attaches to the door. Then you could buy some masonite and cut it to shape and cover it it vinyl to match your interior. Or you could do a little more. There are many ways to change or modify your panel once you start working on. I redid mine and added some speakers to the mix. Heres what they looked like.

How did you do that? masonite what is that?

84blkstang · Sep 20, 2005

I saw panels one time that had some diamond plate across the bottom. I thought about fixing the warped fiberboard backing, and putting some diamond plate across the bottom but i didnt know if this would look any less redneckish than my wonderful speaker grills

84blkstang · Sep 20, 2005

yea what exactly is masonite, is that the board backing on the panel? Also i would like as many different pics as possible for different ideas thanks again guys

spyne · Sep 20, 2005

84blkstang said:
yea what exactly is masonite, is that the board backing on the panel? Also i would like as many different pics as possible for different ideas thanks again guys

The original backing is pretty much just pressed cardboard from what I can tell. Masonite is a hard thin material sort of like cardboard but much more dense. I think it has more glue/binder/epoxy or whatever it is that they use to hold the fibers together. It's about 1/8 to 3/16's of an inch thick and it makes an excellent replacement material for the original material. It's fairly cheap and you can pick it up at just about any home improvement store. If I remember correctly it comes in 4 x 8 sheets like plywood.

trents99 · Sep 20, 2005

I've been buying my stuff online here http://shop.store.yahoo.com/yourautotrim-store/

They carry a lot of different materials. I bought headliner material and black tweed from them. Used the tweed on the upper door inserts and the rear package tray. Turned out great.

04sleeper · Sep 20, 2005

Black 93 Fox said:
What did you use for the mold that holds the speaker? Also what do you mean by a trim shop just like a fabric store???

I made trim rings with MDF. Then I made the panels out of thin wood and fiberglass. Then I covered it with the vinyl.

Not a fabric store. An auto trim store like trents99 linked.

04sleeper · Sep 20, 2005

84blkstang said:
yea what exactly is masonite, is that the board backing on the panel? Also i would like as many different pics as possible for different ideas thanks again guys

Spyne pretty much described it. You can buy it at Home Depot.

84blkstang · Sep 21, 2005

on a scale of 1-10 how hard is it to take apart the door panels and redo them? i really need new ones because as i said before mine are horrible. Is the board just rivited on? if so i just drill them out and put screws in them and it will be fine? thanks for all the opinions and if anyone has pics of redone door panels that would be great.

webshot · Sep 21, 2005

My brother and I are experimenting on re-doing some door panels. And while I cannot give you any insight on how. I will say if you can go to the junkyard and grab a extra door panel or 2 and try out on that one before tearing your door panel up.

89lxsport50 · Sep 21, 2005

84blkstang said:
yea what exactly is masonite, is that the board backing on the panel? Also i would like as many different pics as possible for different ideas thanks again guys

It is the stuff that peg board is made of. You know the brown board with holes in it that you put hooks in.

04sleeper · Sep 21, 2005

89lxsport50 said:
It is the stuff that peg board is made of. You know the brown board with holes in it that you put hooks in.

Except it has no holes.

spyne · Sep 21, 2005

84blkstang · Sep 22, 2005

is there anywhere i could get premade door vinyl to cover the doors ? i dont know if i could make some look decent.

04sleeper · Sep 23, 2005

I just took some grey and black vinyl and stiched it together. It worked great.

84blkstang · Sep 23, 2005

Do you have any pics about how you cut and stitched it together?

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