Does anyone have any pictures of the deluxe door panels in the area of the vinyl as for how it’s finished. I have a new base door panel, but wanted to put on the carpet and chrome mldg that was on mine originally. The replacement carpet has excess vinyl which I am guessing will either be trimmed or folded over. Also, I’ve searched and it appears originally the carpet is glued and the vinyl stapled on, Can you staple thru these replacement panels? They are not cardboard backed but appear plastic. I had planned on using some 3m adhesive, is that sufficient or is there something better? Thanks

 

Are you talking about this? My 75.
I replaced my originals, really ratty. and they were done with staples. No staples on walnut trim.
The repo replacement used an adhesive at most spots. The walnut trim and the carpet trim holds down the edges, as does the other trim on the door.
The walnut trim does have studs, IIRC, but this was 20 years ago.
I suppose you could staple in some places, but not sure.

 

Not concerned about the wood trim, mine is black on my 77, that is already on. My question is about the lower carpet, trying to see what it looks like at the edge of the door panel. Do you know if staples will work on a replacement door panel? It’s plastic not like the original fiberboard or what ever it is.

 

I don't think I would staple into the plastic because it might crack. I would use something like a 3M Adhesive to hold the bottom edge in place for a long time, and make the fold long enough to get a good grip. But if you notice in my first picture there is is a piece of vinyl edging over a bit of the carpet at the bottom edge.
And now that I think about it, the carpet did NOT fold around the bottom of the door, it sits in that indentation between the chrome and the bottom. And it IS glued on I think,,,,

Do you have the chrome strip?
Note that they have a stud which would hold the top in place.

Sorry I don't have a picture of the back of the panel. But the ones I got were more like a hard composite rather than plastic. But that was 20 years ago.

 

Stapling into the plastic isn't a problem as long as you're using fine staples. Bike and snowmobile seats are all plastic and most are staples from the factory. My one brother is an upholsterer and does them for years without issues.
Here's some pics of how my re-pro skins have the carpet / vinyl installed, not sure if it's factory perfect but it looks tidy







Careful because the new carpet was no where near the same size as the original ones so we fit the chrome bar to suit the door panel and then trimmed the carpet to fit where the bar was going to be
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We also added a little bit of 3m adhesive where the panel is concave otherwise it would be baggy in that area

 

Thanks, that’s what I was needing to see. I do have the chrome strips. What was on the old panel wasn’t factory so really don’t have anything to compare to so I plan on test fitting everything before any permanent finish.

 

I turned a base panel into a deluxe panel and used reproduction carpet. Like mentioned above, put the chrome strip where you want it first. VERY important if you have crank windows to get that hole cut and the window crank spacer in place because you want to have a nice gap between the **** and chrome strip.

The forward most screw on the chrome strip has also has an obvious raised pad it goes through on the back of the door panel to help (picture 7).

The top of the carpet strip will probably need trimmed a bit because the carpet does not fold over the bottom of the panel , as pictured above.

The original carpet was glued to a cardboard liner. That cardboard was not glued to the panel but repos don't have the cardboard and have the carpet glued to the panel. I thought the cardboard was a cool deal so I used a cereal box I think. I thought it look good installed.

There were also staples holding the carpet strip to the panel that went through the flap created by the excess material where the carpet and vinyl were sewn together on the back that went right into the lower edge of the vinyl of the door panel.

I also had a reproduction ABS panel where the vinyl part of the carpet strip was coming off. I just used small screws because my big stapler didn't work very well on the ABS.