Door panels: carpet or paint? pics!

[ContourSPL 10+ year member]

I've ran into a dilemma. I don't know if I should carpet my door panels or if I should just go ahead and paint them. I kind of like the look of carpeted doors like some competitors use... I have quite a bit of black carpet lying around and I think paint wouldn't be as durable since door panels can flex from every day use and it's kind of tedious prepping plastic for paint.

Four 6.5's are going in each door.

passenger side:

Click to read more...

 

[Nut Hair Trick 10+ year member]

Panels look good, I'm looking to glass me some pods in the very near future and was gonna go with paint or vinyl. Then Again, the pods are no where near the amount of space that you have to cover. I'd carpet the bottom up to where the curve is and paint the top. Just my opinion.

 

[spencer321 10+ year member]

where is the build thread?!? those doors are sick

 

[ContourSPL 10+ year member]

I thought about doing something like that. I would have to make it to were the carpet kind of flowed well. I don't want it to be carpet then paint, it would need some kind of barrier to sort of seperate the carpeted section from the painted section.

 

[ContourSPL 10+ year member]

where is the build thread?!? those doors are sick

Once I finish them, I'll upload all of the building process. This is a pretty slow procedure so far.

 

[TNTR70 10+ year member]

if you paint them they better be flawlessly smooth or it will show every imperfection but paint is always better than carpet

 

[Tone415 10+ year member]

Is it me or are there not any pics?

 

[ContourSPL 10+ year member]

^yeah. My inspiration for carpeting them came from trucks like Neil Barber's. I think he used tweed or some other material though.

 

[galacticmonkey 5,000+ posts]

Its you.

Id go with paint. Maybe wrap it carpet, then vinyl over that? Either way, carpeted doors look kinda ghetto IMO.

On mine we did carpet, then put vinyl over that to give the softer feeling. This is how mine came along... Using the carpet underneath the vinyl saves alot of body work. Bondoed mine a little bit and sanded them pretty smooth (but nothing like you would need for paint or just vinyl), then went ahead with the wrap.

Bare door.

Carpeted door.

Door in vinyl wrap process.

Finished door bottom.

 

[WOT]

If I had the skills to vinyl ( not idea how to get the curves and such without wrinkles) Id do that

In youre case, Id go carpet if its a nice looking soft carpet (generic speaker box carpet would be fine)

Paint isnt that durable and would wear, chip and scratch very easy in that scenerario as its also being touched picked smacked

 

[Nut Hair Trick 10+ year member]

I thought about doing something like that. I would have to make it to were the carpet kind of flowed well. I don't want it to be carpet then paint, it would need some kind of barrier to sort of seperate the carpeted section from the painted section.

I agree, that would be my only concern, would be how to make it flow from carpet to paint, which I have no idea how you would accomplish that. GMonkey your doors look great.

 

[ContourSPL 10+ year member]

Yes, I like those doors a lot. I wish I had an air compressor and some upholstery glue and a spray gun //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif I guess I should hold off a little while and get some vinyl and buy a new heat gun. I never thought about putting vinyl on them and the carpet idea would be great to have that soft feel to it so I could carpet my doors and vinyl them later......

 

[James Bang 5,000+ posts]

fock, my eyes!

 

[azbass 5,000+ posts]

carpeted doors look kinda lame.. unless it was an old school car with tweed.

but your doors in vinyl look great!

 

[SocialStealth]

Is it hard to fiberglass door panels?