Trim repair ?

[Fastboy TVR S3]

Hi all, new owner, so be gentle.

Can this bit of worn trim at the front of the gearstick surround be repaired / disguised in anyway, short of a costly retrim ☹️

Apologies for the crap photo !

If not, I’ll live with it until funds allow.

[GreenV8S]

Are you referring to the front edge of the gearstick hole in the center console? If you want to keep the original look I imagine you'd need to remove the covering, make any repairs needed to the fiberglass and then re cover it.

[88S1]

This type of trim would do the job. It’s from Terrys Tale, its about 15 posts before yours. I’m sure Terry will let your know where he got it from.

Edited by 88S1 on Wednesday 10th June 00:16

[phillpot]

Peel the vinyl back, very carefully cut 10mm off the fibreglass, pull trim back round and glue.

Hole will obviously now be 10mm bigger but gearstick gaiter will still fill it.... no one will ever know

[TVR-Stu]

phillpot said:

Peel the vinyl back, very carefully cut 10mm off the fibreglass, pull trim back round and glue.

Hole will obviously now be 10mm bigger but gearstick gaiter will still fill it.... no one will ever know

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This.

Looks like your gearstick has caused the damage in the first place with some enthusiastic changes maybe? So you will hide the vinyl damage and stop the damage from reoccurring.Win, win

[magpies]

I agree with phillpot - peel back, cut the fibreglass and re-glue.

The damage will be caused by the gearstick hitting that edge, so giving a little more room would be good.

Fitting a trim piece will not work if no trimming has been done as that would make more contact between the stick and the edge.

[Fastboy TVR S3]

Thanks all, some good ideas

[Blue 30]

Yep, mine was in about the same state.
My opinion of why it it happens (on 2.9 with T9 g-box) concurs with the above. That's it's the stick hitting the console front edge. My best guess to why is, as the stick has a dog leg in it, it's stroke is not only forward/back, it also goes up & down too.
Now I have a AJ30 Jag engine and g-box fitted, it doesn't do that.
My fix, was to hand cut an alloy picture frame for the hole, cover it in vinyl, over lapping the inside of the original hole and glue in place on the underside of the console, thus covering the damage. The frame being held in place by self tapping screws.
TerryB

Edited by Blue 30 on Wednesday 10th June 22:33

[88S1]