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Let me just say this...the further away from my door the better it looks. If I had the money i would've got a pro to do it. But for experience sake I wanted to try this myself.

My technique (don't take this for gospel as it's fairly dodgy)

1 - Took material of door (was pulling up already so just pulled on it tho take it off)

2 - Pinned these to my blue material and cut around them.

3 - Took door trim off (should've done this first I guess)

4 - Unscrewed the map holder section. Placed some material over this and cut out.

5 - Glued this section down with PVA glue (i'm sure there is something better than this for the job, but all i could get my hands on) btw - I wouldn't pay someone to do this bit, it couldn't be easier as the section is flat

6 - Glued the cut out pieces to the top section. This is tricky. It is hard to get the material into the ridge arount the edge. I learnt here, cut the material slightly bigger than needed, glue flat section into place and dummy edges into position. If fit right the edges will hold into the ridge by themselves. Remove and glue.

7 - (the dodgy bit) Because I didn't do all of the above that way. Some of my edges wouldn't stay in the ridge (material too short, glue not sticky enough to hold down). So... A little dab of loctite soon stopped them from coming up. (i know dodgy) not too much though as it comes through the material (i learnt this).

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I was initially going to put this material on my parcel shelf too. But seeing as you can't see the parcel shelf unless you put your head back there (i have very dark tint), and i screwed up the top section of my door, I may have another go at doing these.

I also have cut out the sections to go in the back. But I fear I have cut these too small too, and not too keen to take out this panel to find out. So I have yet to do this bit. One day when I'm bored I will have a go.

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One rear trim was in the glovebox when the car arrived and the drivers one had come away slowly so I used some 3M pressure pack adhesive. The rear came off on the first hot day because I didn't use enough glue so I layered it on next time and it has survived heat ever since. I could not perfectly wrap each door pad because in production the material is heat shrunk onto the door making it stretch when off but this is only under closer inspection of edges etc oherwise looked ok.

Can you get trimmer's glue in pressure pack cans?

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