door panel cloth Options

[lazarpaul]

i just removed the cloth of my door panels and now i've got some hard dry glue left that i can't remove......i've tryed paint thiner, goo gone, some vinyl polish thing.......nothing works.......anyone knows what would melt that glue off?.........plus i've got dents in the armrests that are on the doors......can that be fixed or do I need to replace the panels.Thank you.

[DeW_H0e_GT]

try using heat gun n slowly remove the residue with some decal remover stuff (i,e goo gone)....

[snapshotgt]

There was a thread on this a while back...go search it!

~snap

[expedition2166]

i just removed the cloth of my door panels and now i've got some hard dry glue left that i can't remove......i've tryed paint thiner, goo gone, some vinyl polish thing.......nothing works.......anyone knows what would melt that glue off?.........plus i've got dents in the armrests that are on the doors......can that be fixed or do I need to replace the panels.Thank you.

heat guns are great tools to have but they're not for the novice try a lil nail polish remover carefullyy acetone or laquer thinner

i cannot stress this enough carefullllyyyyyy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and the dents you can sometimes go behind the panel and massage upwards and get some of the dent out and if the press board is broken you might try some paper mache techniques useing cardboard and wood glue or mix a little fiber glass resin and cloth to give the area support

This post has been edited by expedition2166: Jun 21, 2006 - 11:35 PM

[Davesceli]

I have the opposite problem...whats the best way to put the cloth back? I like the cloth, but i can find a decent adhesive that will last longer than a couple of weeks.

[S2CELLY]

i just removed the cloth of my door panels and now i've got some hard dry glue left that i can't remove......i've tryed paint thiner, goo gone, some vinyl polish thing.......nothing works.......anyone knows what would melt that glue off?.........plus i've got dents in the armrests that are on the doors......can that be fixed or do I need to replace the panels.Thank you.

You could use a hair dryer. that's what i used to get the glue off when i debaged mine.

[expedition2166]

I have the opposite problem...whats the best way to put the cloth back? I like the cloth, but i can find a decent adhesive that will last longer than a couple of weeks.

some good ole fashioned 3m headliner adhesive after you clean the vinyl with a strong solvent like laquer thinner or acetone to get allllllll of the silicone and glue that may be on there off

these are done with marine grade vinyl in the metalic blue places


trust me i worked for several years doing interior upholstry thats about the only way to get it to stick the vinyl over the years with all tha armorall and care products leave alot of trace silicone and waxes in the vinyl they have to be striped of all that before any glue will hold

[lazarpaul]

OK.....so I've tried everything u guys suggested....overall I've tried googone, paint thinner, denaturated alcohol, acetone, heatgun, even scraping it with one of those painters scrapers.......nothing.......the glue is still hard as rock and the heat gun and the lacquers even messed up my vinyl a little......now I've got some goofoff that i wanna try and if this doesn't work I think I'll just cover them with new cloth. Thanks to everyone and other ideas are still welcome.

[expedition2166]

mmmmmmmmmmm damn someone had to have tried gluein it on before but used some bad as# glue cos the old crappy oem glue just rolled right off with the laquer for me but hey who knows there not brand new cars some history will always be lost in the mix