Looking for a less expensive solution to replacing the door panels and thought about wrapping the melty bits with carbon fiber wrap. Mine hasn't been melted too much but there are some gashes and those fingernail marks, so would carbon fiber wrapping the interior be a less expensive solution and also cover up the melty bits and keep them from more damage plus making the interior door panels and center console gear shift panel.....carbon fibered?

 

I was actually thinking about this the other day. It could work but I will fill in those gashes with some kind of epoxy filler so when you do an overlay there isn't any depressions in the wrap. Be cautious though because the plastic is melting, the wrap may depress along with it since it's the main layer it installs on top of. I would work on one door panel first (smallest one) and see how it goes from there.

 

What would be a good way to prep the melty bits? Epoxy the whole surface? Something that would harden the molten dash and panels and maybe insulate it from the Hawaiian heat.....

 

You could try adhesives that work with plastic at your local hardware store. Mix up the correct ratio and spread it with a business card, credit card, index card, squeegee, etc. Another approach would be expensive and that's to get a shop to use your panels as a mold and make then in actual carbon fiber.

 

would molds be more expensive than the actual door panels themselves? The door handles can be wrapped as well as the door with door window control panels.

 

 

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