How should I cover my door pods?

[helotaxi 5,000+ posts]

That would look out of place as hell in my car. I'm not going for flash, or glitz or bling. I want something that fits in with the interior.

 

[nweibley 10+ year member]

I know, I'm just giving you a hard time. I say you blend it in the with door panel or goto an automotive part store or your local parts dept and get some replacement material for the door to conver it with, that way it will look stock.

 

[helotaxi 5,000+ posts]

I wish it were that easy. If it was I wouldn't be asking. The door panel is not covered with anything. It is textured plastic. I could just cover the whole door, but then I would have to cut out the insert sections and glue them back in place once I am done. PITA.

 

[nweibley 10+ year member]

If it is textured plastic, can you not take a mold of the texture and make some sort of rubberized plastic replica of it to stretch over your pods? Ehhh... I guess that wouldn't be too easy either.



That cloth like covering on your plastic molded pocket looks like it would be marginally easy to find a good matching fabric to cover the pods with, and that might not look so bad //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif



Also, what about mussing around with artist style texturing, like painting and then blotting the wet paint with crinkled aluminum foil/saran wrap etc? That might also yield a result you are looking for.

 

[helotaxi 5,000+ posts]

The fabric on the molded in pocket is automotive carpet. That is the main reason I included that as one of the choices.

I might be able to make kind of like an embossing stamp of the texture and then press it into the bondo as it starts to set up, but I am not confident that it would look very good.

 

[nweibley 10+ year member]

if you mixed the bondo so that it took a long time to set, and made a mold of the plastic on your door from something, and then pressed that against some semi-cured bondo, and used a hobby knife to connect lines, I could see it working, but it would be extremly tedious. Then again, it would look totally stock and one of a kind. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[helotaxi 5,000+ posts]

Got to thinking (dangerous, I know), My car has a carbon fiber look leather wrapped steering wheel and shifter boot from the factory. If I could find a source for that leather, it should ift right in with the interior of the car. I can find vinyl with the same pattern but only in black, not charcoal. Not sure it would look right if the color is off. What do you guys think?

 

[ss3079 5,000+ posts]

Got to thinking (dangerous, I know), My car has a carbon fiber look leather wrapped steering wheel and shifter boot from the factory. If I could find a source for that leather, it should ift right in with the interior of the car. I can find vinyl with the same pattern but only in black, not charcoal. Not sure it would look right if the color is off. What do you guys think?

I think it's a good idea.

However, I'd definitely see to matching the color.

- Steve

 

[helotaxi 5,000+ posts]

I've found vinyl with a carbon fiber look to it but leather is eluding me. Any ideas?

The other problem is that the carbon looking vinyl is black, not the charcoal that I want. This is really starting to annoy me.

 

[Mark_ab 5,000+ posts]

How about getting some of the stock tweed that's on the armpad there? Might look good.