Seppuku

Since this section seems so dead figured id post up what im doing to my vert. The list of things that I can remember to do right now is:



Recarpet bottom of door panels

Recover center of door panel in black leather

Fix cracked center console and repaint

Recover top portion of arm rest/center console

Rework a S5 stereo surround to include a holder, different ac vents, and recover whole thing in same leather used on door and arm rest

Make all new trunk interior and carpet.

Fix and repaint other various peices of interior

Repaint floor pan of car and repair water damage from leaking top

Rewire all accessories in car



Its going to be a mix of black and factory grey interior, Im hoping it will turn out well and blend together but will have to see how it all turns out. I have a deadline and must all be finished by the 1st. Plenty of pics to come but so far the only progress is stripping it out and im sure everyones seen that before. The goal of this is to make everything like new again while adding some more convienences for myself. I'll be buying all the materials to be used friday and updating this again then.

Seppuku

Time for a slight update to this. Total cost so far for everything needed is $40.00. That includes 3 yards of black leather, bondo, paint, epoxy, spray adhesive, and a couple other things im forgetting. Only thing im missing to finish it all up right now is some metal strips to use to reinforce the broken areas(theres plenty). However so far the only progress ive made is getting the carpeted portion of door panel recovered, fixing most of the cracked areas in all the other panels, and started on the cradle that will now be a part of the radio surround.



Heres pics of the damage to everything:

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Hers some of the door panel progress:

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And the water that plagues every vert

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Baldy

Yucky stuff under there, keep us updated!

jokerx7

Are you just bondoing the broken plastic pieces together and sanding it smooth?

Seppuku

A bit more to it than that. From the back side i epoxy the crack and attatched hard plastic strips to reinforce the area. On the front side i put very little bondo in just the crack left over to fill it. Makes it less noticable than doing a wider area. The less sanding done the better.

Seppuku

I know i havent updated this in a while, The verts 80 miles away from me and every weekend i go down there its freakin raining.. But either way heres the latest pics that i have from the camera phone.



[attachment=44180:0f9d128068fe.jpg] a little painting..

[attachment=44181:22cae699887a.jpg] arm rest recovered and painted, finished door panel in background.

[attachment=44183:e9c516d41bc9.jpg] current state of vert(hopefuly, was in the air when i left it anyway.) awaiting me to put new trans in.

JabroninWARRIOR

for my cracked plastic pieces i took them out and reinforced them with random plastics i found around the house. I melted them onto the backs and used them as reinforcements with a soldering iron at a low temp