Since my new interior is a shade off from my faded stock interior I am making new upper door panels with extra material that came with my seats, the rears I already made so I could get everything else to this point.
You can see my stock one on top and the new one below and I still haven't decided if I am going to completely black out the door handle or leave some chrome and I happened to a good amount of carbon fiber vinyl just to get an idea.
I started but striping off all of the material after carefully removing the inner felt and lock ferrule and with all the holes left I decided to glue thin cardboard over the top and run it to the top edge of the metal, I found cereal boxes worked really well. lol
From there I glued a layer of felt to give it a smooth base.
Then I laid out a simple design and used 1/4" thick hard foam and after that I glued those on.
And from there I carefully glued on my material and used a 1" roller to get the edges tight so as of right now this is what it looks like until I decide what the final look of the handle will be and I still have to remount the inner felt.
You can see my stock one on top and the new one below and I still haven't decided if I am going to completely black out the door handle or leave some chrome and I happened to a good amount of carbon fiber vinyl just to get an idea.
I started but striping off all of the material after carefully removing the inner felt and lock ferrule and with all the holes left I decided to glue thin cardboard over the top and run it to the top edge of the metal, I found cereal boxes worked really well. lol
From there I glued a layer of felt to give it a smooth base.
Then I laid out a simple design and used 1/4" thick hard foam and after that I glued those on.
And from there I carefully glued on my material and used a 1" roller to get the edges tight so as of right now this is what it looks like until I decide what the final look of the handle will be and I still have to remount the inner felt.