Door Cards - Chimeara

[ChrisChimeara]

Hello,

I am thinking about changing the door cards - currently they are black leather with a grey carpet infill.

The plan is to keep the black leather but change the carpet infill for a stitched grey alcantara.

Any thoughts on where best to get this done - I’m in North Essex.

One possibility is All hoods in Romford - they done a new roof for me this year which I’m happy with.

Thanks in advance

[Belle427]

It should not be too much of a challenge for any trimmer really so if you were happy with their work then go for it.

[Geoff-Griff500]

It looks fairly easy and looking to update my Griff which shouldn't be that dissimilar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI0tEdd5ZF8

[BritishTvr450]

Just make sure you have looked up how to remove the door cards and can advise your chosen trimmer as that’s the only technical part of the job.

[s p a c e m a n]

Honesty unless you are completely useless with a spanner it's way too easy of a job to be paying someone else to do, once you get the card off it's a completely flat piece that you spray glue whatever you want from eBay onto. It can be done in a few hours and less than £100 rather than waiting for someone else to do it. The worst thing that can happen from you trying is that you'll waste £100 and have to get someone to do it anyway, you're not going to kill the car.

[drcarlos]

I replaced the carpet on mine. It's a fairly simple DIY project and the hardest part was deliberating over the material I wanted to use. The actual retrim was done in an afternoon (including the removal and refit of the cards).
TVR made this process easy as the leather surround is separate and overlaps the inner carpeted part massively (it hides all the edges apart from the speaker hole which the speaker itself covers) so once removed the carpet is pulled off the fibreglass panel and then using spray contact adhesive the new material and cut to shape (just remember to have extra at the edges to wrap back and the alignment of any stitching if you have it) and bonded back on. Embossed stitched vinyl or Alcantara backed with foam is available on Amazon and you need about 2m only (as it comes in 1m width so you get planty of overlap to wrap back over the card). If you can remove the speakers and take the surrounds off it's a nice easy satisfying DIY job as the inner cards are only held on with about 4 self tapping screws.