Friday, March 27, 2009 - 05:20 pm, by: Chris Wright(Extremelanos)
Hi guys,
Hoping someone on here can do plastic welding, or knows of a place who can? Looking for a good job, not too expensive though. Just the drivers side door trim needs doing.
Friday, March 27, 2009 - 06:49 pm, by: Andrew Duaso(Andrewd)
whats needing repair, the vinyl or the actual abs plastic or something
i can reccommend a person to do either, but they are both based in the nth, i has the plastic welder repair a fuel tank when it was punctured $100 of ultimate gone! anyway $800 for a tank! this guy came to my house $50 cash and it was better than new...
the plastic welder is based in Keilor and the Vinyl welder Glenroy, both are very good at what they do
Saturday, March 28, 2009 - 07:52 am, by: Lawrence Ostle(Lawrence)
Chris Wright wrote on Friday, March 27, 2009 - 06:54 pm:
I assume that's vinyl?
the door card is in two parts; the top half is compressed wood fibre of sorts and the bottom is plastic. They are both covered in vinyl. Depending on what's actually wrong, you may be able to DIY but you're going to have to provide more info than you have and/or photo's.
Also, you may want to search for 'repair door trim' and variations of that on this forum.
Saturday, March 28, 2009 - 10:26 am, by: Andrew Duaso(Andrewd)
A T plastic repairs 0413 535 556. for repairing all hard plastics
and try someone like, the dashboard doctor, or dashboard repair ctr for vinyl repairs, there are others too, they may or may not still do it though... such as eastern auto upholstery, and the one i mentioned reliable retrim in glenroy, their numbers you can get from the yellow pages...
but you should post up a pic as people will be able to identify the problem and recommend a solution
Sunday, March 29, 2009 - 08:45 am, by: Lawrence Ostle(Lawrence)
Chris, two suggestions:
1. Contact Daniel Savage on this forum, he may have a door card in better shape than yours, sadly yours look bad.
2. You COULD try removing the vinyl covering, fibreglass them and then re-cover (see below). This is a lot of work, but permanent. My door cards had similar damage, and I had to basically rebuild them using perspex and fibreglass.
The damage shown in your pictures is classic Soarer door-card cancer, and any 'new' door card is likely to require some reinforcing if not now, in the future when it finally crumbles.
Sunday, March 29, 2009 - 09:51 am, by: Chris Wright(Extremelanos)
Thanks mate for the advice.
I'm selling the car, so I need to do a couple of things up before I give it over to the guy, so the cheapest and easiest way to fix it would be appreciated.
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