Removing leather doorcard inserts???

[x Spades x]

Hey Everyone,

Is there a guid to separating the leather inserts from the plastic door cards? I need swap interiors (imola and black) and one of them is heavily modded for an aftermarket stereo system... so the panel needs to stay with the car.

i know i need to drill out the plastic welds, but would like a guide (and which ones).

Thanks!!

[JakeM346]

Well don’t have my dooryards infringe of me but it’s basically all of the plastic welds except maybe 3-4 in the front. And then the best way to get it back together is plastic welding.
it‘s not really that nice of a job

[x Spades x]

Well don’t have my dooryards infringe of me but it’s basically all of the plastic welds except maybe 3-4 in the front. And then the best way to get it back together is plastic welding.
it‘s not really that nice of a job

When you say plastic, do you mean just dropping glue into the hole or are you saying ending some kind of metal pin and melting plastic over it?

[AWE46M3]

Fast forward to 13:08 if the link doesn’t jump to it:

[JakeM346]

When you say plastic, do you mean just dropping glue into the hole or are you saying ending some kind of metal pin and melting plastic over it?

Nope I mean actual plastic welding. With a hot air fan and a plastic weld rod…
glue won’t work except if it’s a special glue made for PP because normal glue doesn’t stick (properly) to PP

[JakeM346]

Fast forward to 13:08 if the link doesn’t jump to it:

one should mention that the normal panels don’t have screw holes…therefore incredibly hard to fix them reliably.

[x Spades x]

Nope I mean actual plastic welding. With a hot air fan and a plastic weld rod…
glue won’t work except if it’s a special glue made for PP because normal glue doesn’t stick (properly) to PP

Ugh, I got epoxy from the store, but I sounds like that won't work. Do you have an example (or link to an example) of the type of plastic welding youre referring to?