Making saloon rear door panels fit Estate rear doors...
Posted: Sun May 22, 2016 10:03 am
Soo I managed to bag a bargain full leather seat and door card set for my 5.5 Estate, only issue being it's from a saloon and not an estate. Now I know the rear seat will require some fettling to fit, not a prob as I know it's been done many times before.
But I didn't know that the profile along the top of the rear door panels is slightly narrower in a saloon:
Estate on right, saloon on left:
So the only solution I had was to remove the top edge from both door panels and swap them over:
Old panel on right, new one on left:
I had to start by removing/cleaning off the tabs highlighted here that are heat glued together:
Then once I'd gone along them all, it was time to swap over and re-attach using a hot glue gun:
Once dried, job was done. The only prob being a slight difference in shade (looks worse in the pics) but with a bit of careful shoe polishing, I should get a nice match, and they are the rears so won't get seen much.
But I didn't know that the profile along the top of the rear door panels is slightly narrower in a saloon:
Estate on right, saloon on left:
So the only solution I had was to remove the top edge from both door panels and swap them over:
Old panel on right, new one on left:
I had to start by removing/cleaning off the tabs highlighted here that are heat glued together:
Then once I'd gone along them all, it was time to swap over and re-attach using a hot glue gun:
Once dried, job was done. The only prob being a slight difference in shade (looks worse in the pics) but with a bit of careful shoe polishing, I should get a nice match, and they are the rears so won't get seen much.
