Door Cards Back from Auto Upholsterer

[JayCab]

He's made a nice job of that using the rubber cord idea, I did one in the summer that fell of in the heat, the old adhesive is disgusting. I get the rubber piece you need as 893 867 694 01C but Tradiation don't have it and a search came up nearly blank.

Yes, it’s pure evil. You’re not lying there! I spent hours with acetone, white spirit, meths and sandpaper before I could get a surface good to work on. I did 3mm scrim foam and mounted with high temperature interior contact adhesive (red trim fix aerosol from martrim). My results are pretty good but you could get softer “puff” with 6mm scrim foam. Hard to tell what the OE was because there was nothing left of it among all the insoluble goo!

[Solfella]

^^ This, yes, sometimes it's just better to outsource stuff. I'd say the trimmer has used the 6mm foam by the feel of it.

[Greg_S]

They look great. I have mine being done in a few weeks along with the headlining and sunroof trim. I decided it wasn’t worth the risk of damaging clips and the time to try and get a good finish.

[Solfella]

They look great. I have mine being done in a few weeks along with the headlining and sunroof trim. I decided it wasn’t worth the risk of damaging clips and the time to try and get a good finish.

Thank you. In discussion with the upholster, we chose not to replicate the two angled seams in the originals. It would have cost more and would have created a thickness at the seams that would hard to keep in the groove the edges are tucked into.

Before and after shots. The before one doesn't do the deterioration justice - all the edges were coming away and the foam was like sticky cake crumbs

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[Solfella]

So I got around to finding and fitting the rubber seals that fit at the back edge of the glass nearest to the lock. After baulking at the 90 Euros just for posting from Tradition, this fella in Norway 3D printed some and shipped for around half of what Tradition would have been all up. Have to say I'm impressed with the service and the quality.

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[JayCab]

So I got around to finding and fitting the rubber seals that fit at the back edge of the glass nearest to the lock. After baulking at the 90 Euros just for posting from Tradition, this fella in Norway 3D printed some and shipped for around half of what Tradition would have been all up. Have to say I'm impressed with the service and the quality.

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Amazing. I didn't know he did custom orders. I have his custom cup holder. That's a good piece!

[Crasher]

Traditions postage charges are a huge barrier to ordering from them.I needed a simple AAD throttle body gasket that Tradition and VW Classic both listed, Traditions postage to the UK was €50, VW Classic was €10 by UPS.

[JayCab]

need these…unobtanium it seems

[Crasher]

What is the car, looks like a cabrio?

[JayCab]

What is the car, looks like a cabrio?

Yes!

[Crasher]

8G0 833 176 B "formed part", 95>2000 type 8G cabrio when they went obsolete in 2016 costing £6.86...