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chris_derby

Hi all, I'm desperate for a good drivers door card for my Vitesse.....

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Flange · SD1 User Joined: 30 Apr 2008 Posts: 7

You'll find one in the rare items category in eBay, between hen's teeth and Leprechaun ears.

On a less flippant note, I spent about 3 years trying to find a good Vitesse interior for my project car, and have finally given up and will be using blue dash and door panels and having some Vitesse seats recovered to match.

It would seem that the only tidy Vitesse interior panels out there are on tidy Vitesses – good luck!

ramon alban

chris_derby wrote:

Hi all, I'm desperate for a good drivers door card for my Vitesse.....

Chris just in case yours is not TOO badly damaged or you can only find a reasonable one - I trawled this from my archives

Interior Trim Repair.

Inner door trims can get quite damaged along their open edge and look messy. Sometimes the edges get cut on trapped seatbelt buckles too. Failing the availability of new trim, mending them greatly improves the cosmetics, as follows.

Off the car, tease any cuts together with a kebab stick and seal them closed with a trace of Cyanoacrylate (superglue). If the edge is feeble and loose the structure of the compressed paperboard will have broken-down and weakened. Use masking tape stretchers to pull over the edges to their original shape, all along the edge from top to bottom. Dilute some waterproof pva wood glue with 25-50% water and soak it into the damaged cardboard structure along the inside of the edge and rub well in to the damaged board. Follow this with some thicker pva along inner structure. Place in airing cupboard for a couple of days and the original shape will be permanently restored. Clean and shine as you wish, but a good quality kitchen or bathroom spray cleaner cuts thro’ interior grime and the cleaned up surfaces can be polished with a favourite cockpit shine.

When refitting interior trim (with old sticky tape removed using white spirit) doors can be treated to a new inner membrane cut from good quality pvc sheet (Garden supplies) using the old membrane as a template for shape and fixing hole positions. Seal the edges with 1” linen tape. Seal as many of remaining access holes as possible with more tape and the whole job should be well damp proofed.

Ramon

chris_derby · Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 3:39 am Post subject:

Have already had a go at repairing it, which did seem to work at first, but it's not done the trick I'm afraid, I will have to have another go at it, but would rather have a better example to go on the car...

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