How To Make Your Own Aluminum Door Panels

Car door panels can be expensive depending on the vehicle make and model.

How to make your own aluminum door panels.

Mark simpson demonstrates on a 1962 oldsmobile door panel how to create custom car door panels using abs board and pre sewn top stitch panels from ez boy interiors. However with a little instruction and a broad selection of car interior upholstery parts the task is made easier than you might think. But using some readily available components you can achieve professional looking results. Techniques build and assemble door easy how to make a door aluminum correctly.

Pretty easy to make and looks so much cleaner than bare door s. Lets get to work. Building a show quality interior to match the rest of your build can be a daunting task. In this video i make some sick cheap diy door panels for the drift car.

For most classic car restorers sewing together upholstery is an unlearned skill. Be sure that the door you make is the proper thickness for your door jamb. This is part one of hagan street rods modular door panel system. Techniques build and assemble door easy how to make a door aluminum correctly.

I set up the full sheet of cardboard on top of a clean sheet of plywood on some sawhorses in the middle of the garage so i could work around it. Do it yourselfers can build their own panels with a few power tools and glue. Start by tracing the patterns onto the new cardboard that is your door panel. For each door panel i use 1 8 thick hdpe plastic and self.

When removing the old panels be sure to remove all staples and hang on to the clips. This film will teach you how to design construct and upholster your own auto door panels. If you plan to make this for the interior it will be too thick to fit the existing jamb and you will have to modify your plan for accents. Building new panels also gives you the option of using higher quality materials.