Went to local wrecker and picked up leather door cards. They're not great, but they'll do for the mean time
I have to cut tweeter holes in the front and I want to chop up my old front doors and take out the speaker grill / cover and try retrofit it on the new leather rear door cards, and finally hook some speakers up in the rear doors. I also wanna paint these ones a flat black. Gloss was not a good idea and I'm glad I now have the opportunity to change it!
Painted the front passenger and rear passenger today. Here are the results:
Turnout Front
Turnout Rear
Fitment - The bottom sits flush. The top doesn't. I'm still happy with it and I think it'll look stock as a rock in the car
I pretty much just took off the speaker grill from my old front door card and then traced around the hole remaining with some cardboard, taped it to the new door card and dremeled it out. I also cut out the hole for the tweeter in the front door, but I measured it out so it'd sit in the middle and look more oem.
Happy with how it's turning out so far. The front dried already (as I did it first) and the leather is still super soft and awesome. :3 So it's been a win-win-win day.
I simply gave it a solid polish and it came up almost new. Very pleased. However at the same time, it's bittersweet. I had to take it off. SAPol blows.
As of yesterday. She comes up pretty good for an 18 year old car that's spent a lot of time outside.
I wish I could drive her like this everyday, however maintaining the paintwork in my current living situation is near impossible. Our carport is open on one side, and we get a lot of winds, rain and dust that get through that side onto the cars... which sucks. Maybe one day when I move out from home I'll be able to get a nice place with a closed garage.
They are extremely comfortable and provide much more stability than the old stock ones when going around corners
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