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MrCrowley
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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 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.

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Suede and vinyl. I wouldn't wrap in carpet... not a big fan of paint either.

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x2 on suede and vinyl, should look sick. And nice panels [Smile]

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still going to be a beotch to try and make vinyl look correct on that. unless you can get perfect vinyl like chysler uses
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I think vinyl could look nice.

I'd get a fabric shop to do it and stitch a seam in for 2 diff colors.

It would look awesome IMO with a 2 tone door panel if you can get the seam to curve right under where the door curves.

Plus it would be super simple to wrap from what I can tell

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Instead of stitching you can always create a vinyl break by gluing on a .25"x.25" piece of mdf and building up to it with body filler. Whenever you do these breaks it's best to use carpet to compensate for the .25" lip.

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very nice work there Mr. Crowley I think paint would be better for spl.

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MrCrowley
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For SPL, yeah, I agree. This is just going to be a loud "daily driver". Once I get another dedicated vehicle for driving, the Jeep is getting a wall. I've got some plans for a 6th order...somewhere. This will turn into a dedicated Bassracer pretty sooooon.

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