Interior Teaser *Now completed-Updated with pics*

[LDetter]

My friend burnt a hole in my passenger door armrest so i decied to change up the interior from the plaid to black suede. I was able to get one door done tonight and it will probably take a couple of weeks to get the whole job done seeing as I dont have a whole lot of time having two jobs. I will post up pics of the interior completed but for now here is a pic of the rear door.

Before:

After:

Comments welcome.

And i can't spell Teaser

[goody6691]

looks nice, reminds me i need to do mine.

[europshhrc279]

black suede looks much better. much cleaner and classier look

[AudiXS4X01]

muuch better!!

[redflagquattro]

looks great man..makes me miss my 99 with grey cloth

[slopoke]

diy?

[LDetter]

diy?

Yup just got the door done about a hour ago. Took roughly 3 hours to do, next ones should go a little smother now that i know what i need to do to get the armrest out of the doors. I was surprised i was able to keep working the suede to get all the wrinkles out of the bends, not a wrinkle in it

[le91688]

You need to help me do this to mine O_o

[LDetter]

Let me get mine done first and ill see what i can do.

[slopoke]

no i meant a write up to help out the rest of us lol

[LDetter]

Haha, my bad, guess i read your post wrong. I didnt take any pics or anything while i was doing this one. Might have to do that for one of the doors. Its not realy too hard. Just takes patients.

[willowtreexx]

SOOO MUCH BETTER!!

[Rhinop21]

Haha, my bad, guess i read your post wrong. I didnt take any pics or anything while i was doing this one. Might have to do that for one of the doors. Its not realy too hard. Just takes patients.

Patience



Sorry one of my pet peeves.

[lanoueb5er]

Love it. Very clean. DIY/ walkthrough/ instructions please

[LDetter]

Haha no problem, as you can see spelling isnt one of my strong points, lol

[317ssayzarc]

The job was done well, very nice! But the black just doesnt flow with your interior imo...

[D.C. Designs]

loving the black suede much better

[sirmeeps]

Whats up Lee? That ish looks good man. What kind of material is that? Just the standard Jo Annes stuff or the expensive stuff that is supposed to be used for the automotive application?

[Idrive]

looks a lot better good job!

how did you go about removing the trim? i've looked and it seems like there's rivets that are plastic welded in

[LDetter]

Whats up Lee? That ish looks good man. What kind of material is that? Just the standard Jo Annes stuff or the expensive stuff that is supposed to be used for the automotive application?

Whats up man, thanks. Its black suede from Jo-Anne fabrics. Hopefully it holds up well, time will tell.

looks a lot better good job!

how did you go about removing the trim? i've looked and it seems like there's rivets that are plastic welded in

Yup, I took a soldering iron and melted down the tabs and pryed it loose, then to re-atach it i just used apoxy around the outside edges.

[slopoke]

hmmm i kinda want to do mine now... just not sure on color... red/blue/black..idk

[LDetter]

Finally got around to completing the rest of this. Overall I am very happy how it turned out. Much more classy and clean looking then the plaid. Here are the end results. Coments welcome.

[317ssayzarc]

Gotta do that armrest lid!!!

[LDetter]

I thought about that, but i don't want it to get all shity looking, Im not sure if it would or not. I'm already trying hard to not use the door armrests so they stay clean.

[le91688]

Looks awesome.

If it wasnt so cold out i might attempt it.

[A4Rob]

Much much better!

[BrokeDown[20V]]

turned out great. As mentioned, much better.

[SykoraA4]

yeah man, that looks really nice!

[LDetter]

Thanks for all the compliments. I agree too its much better, def should have done this in the first place.

[the_pirate]

looks really good! i wasnt feelin' the plaid you picked out before. you should do the shift surround in the same material.

[A4 Effort]

Looks great man! But yes, i concur with the armrest lid

[slopoke]

looks amazing but the cloth seats have to go

[djwimbo]

Looks 100x times better than that candy cane shit. Good job.

[oneohone]

Wow looks good, great job

[dbtong]

Much better. Just how exactly do you go about taking out those sections of the door panel? I have to redo mine.

[JaVa]

looks great! much improvement

[LDetter]

Much better. Just how exactly do you go about taking out those sections of the door panel? I have to redo mine.

When you take the door panel off you will see oval shaped plastic tabs that are melted to hold the panel in. What I did was take a soldering gun and melted the center of them out then used a flat screwdriver to pop them lose. Theres is also one screw that holds the door handle on, after that is removed and all the plastic tabs are free its just pulls off.

[pipe7284]

looks beautifull. i love it...i wish mine would have stayed on, but that shit peeled off. so i took them off.

[LDetter]

I completly got rid of the old fabric and the foam behind it so im hoping that it should stay on pretty good being that it is just glued to the bare plastic.

[dbtong]

When you take the door panel off you will see oval shaped plastic tabs that are melted to hold the panel in. What I did was take a soldering gun and melted the center of them out then used a flat screwdriver to pop them lose. Theres is also one screw that holds the door handle on, after that is removed and all the plastic tabs are free its just pulls off.

Ah...thanks! When you go to put everything back together, what did you use to refasten the panels since the tabs are now melted off?