Door Card Retrim

chubbchubb · Sep 10, 2019

The interior of my Disco 2 needs some TLC and I have thought about spray painting the plastic parts and then redoing the fabric trim. I have seen a photo of another Disco that had the rear door panel and headliner all done in Camo fabric but no info other than that. I am hoping to match all the door fabric with the gear gaiters and seat covers.

So has anyone done this at all and can off some advice?

Stanleysteamer · Sep 10, 2019

as to spraying plastic trim, be aware it'll probably crack and/or wear off really quickly unless you strip the outside layer of the plastic back then use proper plastic paint, which sets flexible. If you don't do that the paint won't adhere properly. Can't you just clean up the plastic, or replace it with less worn stuff from a breaker's?
Fitting new fabric is probably easier, all you really need to do is strip the old stuff off carefully and use that as templates to cut out your new material, but do renew any of the backing and support material, such as foam and ensure you get the right sort of material. It'll take a lot of patience and be prepared to make mistakes and have to go back over stuff, wasting material until you get the knack of it.
I have just removed, cleaned and replaced the cover of the back seat in our Citroen Pluriel, due to a wine stain. The word, "hog-ring" is now officially a swearword in our house. It looks OK but I didn't have to cut material, fit piping, refurb support material or anything and it still took me the best part of a day.

dieseldog69 · Sep 10, 2019

I did a bit to mine.

http://projectrusty1992.blogspot.com/2014/03/interior-make-over.html

chubbchubb · Sep 10, 2019

Stanleysteamer said:
as to spraying plastic trim, be aware it'll probably crack and/or wear off really quickly unless you strip the outside layer of the plastic back then use proper plastic paint, which sets flexible. If you don't do that the paint won't adhere properly. Can't you just clean up the plastic, or replace it with less worn stuff from a breaker's?
Fitting new fabric is probably easier, all you really need to do is strip the old stuff off carefully and use that as templates to cut out your new material, but do renew any of the backing and support material, such as foam and ensure you get the right sort of material. It'll take a lot of patience and be prepared to make mistakes and have to go back over stuff, wasting material until you get the knack of it.
I have just removed, cleaned and replaced the cover of the back seat in our Citroen Pluriel, due to a wine stain. The word, "hog-ring" is now officially a swearword in our house. It looks OK but I didn't have to cut material, fit piping, refurb support material or anything and it still took me the best part of a day.

What type of fabric do you think would work well? I was thinking a vinyl leatherette? Or I did find some 1000 denier fabric similar to what britpart use on their seat covers

chubbchubb · Sep 10, 2019

dieseldog69 said:
I did a bit to mine.

http://projectrusty1992.blogspot.com/2014/03/interior-make-over.html

How has the spray painting stood up to the rest of time? And what paint did you use the picture was a little blurry on my phone. Also what adhesive did you use for the vinyl?

dieseldog69 · Sep 10, 2019

chubbchubb said:
How has the spray painting stood up to the rest of time? And what paint did you use the picture was a little blurry on my phone. Also what adhesive did you use for the vinyl?

Paint has done very well considering it was my daily driver for 4yrs and driven pretty hard off road in the worst of conditions that got pretty much everywhere, it has worn off in high rub areas like under my elbow on the left side of the centre console but for the most part it has lasted really really well, it was Brico special I think or maybe the local hardware store when I lived in Belgium, proper plastic primer and plastic paints, quite tough as it hasn't suffered anywhere else.

The Vinyl was stuck with just a generic pot of contact adhesive.

Highly recommend the vinyl for a covering material, add a layer of 10mm close cell foam and it will transform the sound deadening of the panels.

Stanleysteamer · Sep 11, 2019

+++111^^^ wotesaid!

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