Author Topic: Custom Door Trims (Read 7990 times)

BoGAn · « **on:** Jun 11, 2004, 02:59PM »

Ive done a bit of looking through old threads and i've decided to redo my trims in a few weeks. What im after is a supplier for the vinyl. Does anyone know a good place in SE Melb??

SSS · « **Reply #1 on:** Jun 11, 2004, 05:40PM »

Tried Spotlight? Or chicky places like Lincraft?

BEEFY_1600 · « **Reply #2 on:** Jun 11, 2004, 05:53PM »

Go to your local automotive trimer they have the best range and best prices and all their stuff is uv protected unlike you stuff from sotlight and other stores. And they wil most likey be happy to sell it to you and give you some tips.

Nizzan · « **Reply #3 on:** Jun 12, 2004, 09:19AM »

Quote from: beefy_trx on Jun 11, 2004, 05:53PM

Go to your local automotive trimer

where r these places? theyre not exactly well known in my books....

iren · « **Reply #4 on:** Jun 12, 2004, 09:59AM »

if it's thin vinyl go to the hobby store, look for model aircraft coverings.. they're pretty durable and pretty hard to fade under UV. Some of them comes with ironable glue backing.. basically set it on the area to be covered and use an iron at medium to low seting to activate the glue. if you use heat gun or even warm oven mitten, you can follow the panel's contour perfectly. Certain few has fabric grain, some other have carbon fibre and kevlar pattern, neat stuff. Any colour from metallic to solid, glossy to matte finish.

otherwise i just redid my door panels with some thicker vinyl from one of the girlie store, said auto grade on the label...so not expecting it to fade anytime soon. available in most interior colours.

SmootH · « **Reply #5 on:** Jun 12, 2004, 02:45PM »

the best place to go is VYFAB in moorabbin, i got my vinal there, heaps of choice and not too expensive.

not sure of the address just look on yellowpages.com.au

BoGAn · « **Reply #6 on:** Jun 12, 2004, 05:28PM »

Thanks for the help all. Ill check these places out. Pics in a couple of weeks

Jtas · « **Reply #7 on:** Jun 13, 2004, 01:18AM »

Quote from: Nizzan on Jun 12, 2004, 09:19AM

where r these places? theyre not exactly well known in my books....

there are a fair few down here, so there must be some in victoria

http://www.yellowpages.com.au/search/performSearch.do?headingCode=25224&location=2&businessType=automotive+trimmers&emailOnly=false&previousCopyPoint=false&resetCopyPoint=false&saveSearch=true&serviceArea=true&suburbList=&websiteOnly=false

(dont know if that link will work as its so big, but just go to yellowpages and search for automotive trimmers in your area)

by the way spotlight didnt seem to have much colour choice and i didnt like the quality of their stuff.

also dont forget to put thin foam underneath the vinyl

Nizzan · « **Reply #8 on:** Jun 15, 2004, 05:22PM »

hey would these places have carpet with that padding stuff??
Mate of mine is selling his car and has no carpet in his boot.. You know that stock carpet stuff?? Its for a pinny as well, so if anyone has the stock carpet and wants to get rid of it, give me a yell!!

Nizzan · « **Reply #9 on:** Jun 17, 2004, 04:19PM »

Anyone know a place? The carpet with that gray padding or sound deadening carpet foamy stuff underneath it?

BEEFY_1600 · « **Reply #10 on:** Jun 17, 2004, 05:21PM »

Try ya local trimmer just lookin in the yellow pages

Stanza Manza · « **Reply #11 on:** Jun 17, 2004, 06:02PM »

I did mine myself with $6 fabric from the local department store and paint. I dont suggest the paint cause it will fade out but it only cost me like a $1 so i didn't really care.

noss · « **Reply #12 on:** Jun 17, 2004, 06:08PM »

Quote from: Nizzan on Jun 17, 2004, 04:19PM

Anyone know a place? The carpet with that gray padding or sound deadening carpet foamy stuff underneath it?

there are some motor trimmers in ringwood behind hungry jacks on heatherdale road, try them

aussie-gli · « **Reply #13 on:** Jun 18, 2004, 04:36PM »

There's a place in ringwood on maroondah hwy, just past car city on the left as u're heading out towards Lilydale. It's in a group of factories Top bloke and has everything there you'll need. Cheap too!

Nizzan · « **Reply #14 on:** Jun 18, 2004, 08:00PM »

sweet, cheers dan

BoGAn · « **Reply #15 on:** Jul 3, 2004, 02:45AM »

All doneÂ

Will post picks sometime whenever i get my hands on a digi camera, or u can see em at the next melb cruise. Front doors are orange with original blacky-grey top and bottom parts put back on and rear doors are orange with original top and some mdf covered with black vinyl on the bottom up the side. Also did the ceiling in black and the surrounding trim in orange. Might do the centre console and some of the dash area sometime, but ive run out of vinyl and cant be bothered going back to vyfab in moorabbin at the moment.

Took a couple of days to do it all. Most of last weekend and a few hours here and there on nights when I wasnt working. My car reeks of glue fumes tho.

On a side note, nisscar wreckers are just around the corner from vyfab and i also picked up a new cornering lamp for $25 and the side trx plate on the rear door for $33, though i did need to get it painted ($40). This was really cheap as i had been quoted $55 for the light and $70 for the plate at other places. So if your after parts, try these blokes out. Another thing, while on the ringer a pinara-skyline specialist wrecker (not sure of name, but its obvious in the yellow pages) in bayswater said they have a whole trx bodykit. This was a couple weeks back and im not sure how reliable this info is but its worth checking out if u want a bodykit or parts of the kit.

SmootH · « **Reply #16 on:** Jul 10, 2004, 04:52AM »

so bogan, waiting on pics still of ur door trims?

BoGAn · « **Reply #17 on:** Jul 11, 2004, 07:44PM »

at long last pics are finally done. here ya go

these will go down in a few months as the webspace they are on will die. Ill chage em then, cant be stuffed organising new space now.

BEEFY_1600 · « **Reply #18 on:** Jul 11, 2004, 09:42PM »

Congrats man that looks sweet nice job

trxmad · « **Reply #19 on:** Jul 11, 2004, 09:51PM »

yep those door trims are sweet as mate

noss · « **Reply #20 on:** Jul 12, 2004, 12:39PM »

they look really good mate. i should have asked you to take photos as you did them so we could put together a tech article on how to retrim doors.

BoGAn · « **Reply #21 on:** Jul 12, 2004, 02:13PM »

well ill be helping a mate do his van doors sometime in the near future, so i can take some photos of that. Its really quite easy, just time consuming.

On a side note, does anyone know if any u12s came out with black sunvisors and black handle thingys for clothes above the doors?? My ceiling is now black and the grey fittings look a bit dodgy

noss · « **Reply #22 on:** Jul 12, 2004, 02:23PM »

nah i think they were all grey and brown, at least the local models anyway

Jtas · « **Reply #23 on:** Jul 12, 2004, 08:01PM »

looks just like mine

except mine are blue. good job

Budgie · « **Reply #24 on:** Jul 12, 2004, 09:12PM »

Hey Bogan, do you think it would be possible to re-trim the top section of the front doors? The black part that runs along the top with the door lock in it?

BEEFY_1600 · « **Reply #25 on:** Jul 12, 2004, 09:44PM »

Budginator It is possible to retrim the top bit where the door locks are ive done mine in blue on my silver trx and done it black in the red one.

BoGAn · « **Reply #26 on:** Jul 13, 2004, 12:49AM »

Yep sure is budge. I did one of the rear door tops in orange when I had a different colour scheme in mind. the colour setup looked crap, so i changed it back to stock. It is a slight pain in the ass as you have to take off the part that butts up to the window glass and its a bastard to get back on right. Min isnt, and the window is now hadreder to wind down, but I dont sit in the back so it doesnt worry me

evenflow_trx · « **Reply #27 on:** Jul 13, 2004, 04:49PM »

Looks nice bogan - very good job mate.

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does anyone know if any u12s came out with black sunvisors and black handle thingys for clothes above the doors??

Nope, they never did.

jayjay · « **Reply #28 on:** Jul 21, 2004, 05:44PM »

hey dude ,
just out of interest how did you attach the vinyl on the back of the door panels?
staples and glue or just glue?
jayjay

Jtas · « **Reply #29 on:** Jul 21, 2004, 08:58PM »

i used spray on glue and staples to do mine. You can buy a staple gun for around $20 at Bunnings if you havent already got one

Author Topic: Custom Door Trims (Read 7990 times)

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