Repair "wooden" strip
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Did mine a few years ago.
If you're not fussed about the wood effect, you'll find that underneath, they are a nice brushed alloy finish. I rubbed mine down and polished them. See my web site here:
http://www.haggishead.myby.co.uk/TVR/sep03.html#d4
To remove the trims, first you have to remove the door cards, then the trims are held on with 4 or 5 little nuts on the back of the door card. Take them off and the trim pulls off the front. Be careful that you don't lose any of the little bolts that run in a channel in the back of the trim.
If you're not fussed about the wood effect, you'll find that underneath, they are a nice brushed alloy finish. I rubbed mine down and polished them. See my web site here:
http://www.haggishead.myby.co.uk/TVR/sep03.html#d4
To remove the trims, first you have to remove the door cards, then the trims are held on with 4 or 5 little nuts on the back of the door card. Take them off and the trim pulls off the front. Be careful that you don't lose any of the little bolts that run in a channel in the back of the trim.
Edited by tvrgit on Friday 30th May 14:29
To take them off, remove the door card. Lift the sponge on the back and you will find that the strips are held on with short threaded bars and nuts. The threaded bars are attached to the back of the strip and go through the door card where a nut secures them. Undo the nuts (mine had 4) and push the strip off the card. Once they're off you can do what you like with them. I cracked all the knackered and very badly repaired (the doors were different) 'wood' off mine, polished them up and applied a coat of spray lacquer. They now match the centre console and gearknob.
To take them off you will need to remove the door panel. It's a bit fiddly as it involves getting your hand inside the hole cut for the speaker to undo a small nut.
Once the panel is off removing the strip is easy ~ the are a couple of nuts holding it on. Repairing is another matter altogether. They are made of painted aluminium.
My car has a black interior with grey piping. I rubbed the strip down to bare metal ~ it looks good against the black.
You could repaint it or even replace with real wood.
Cheers
Tim
Once the panel is off removing the strip is easy ~ the are a couple of nuts holding it on. Repairing is another matter altogether. They are made of painted aluminium.
My car has a black interior with grey piping. I rubbed the strip down to bare metal ~ it looks good against the black.
You could repaint it or even replace with real wood.
Cheers
Tim
Hans, This guy painted the walnut effect on my dash: http://www.bertstrik.nl/
He's specialised in restauring paintwork and murals, and based in the Betuwe. Nice guy, and has a huge portfolio, including work on the Amsterdam central station, theatre Tuschinski the royal palace 'het Loo' (no joke, one of the dutch royal palaces is called 'the Loo').
See my recent thread for a picture of the dash.
He's specialised in restauring paintwork and murals, and based in the Betuwe. Nice guy, and has a huge portfolio, including work on the Amsterdam central station, theatre Tuschinski the royal palace 'het Loo' (no joke, one of the dutch royal palaces is called 'the Loo').
See my recent thread for a picture of the dash.
hvdweerden said:
I also like the wood effect (only 48 years !)and would like to keep the original look.
Where can you get this "real wood" and is it a DIY job ?
I'm not a big fan of wood in cars, but I couldn't find a suitable replacement for my wooden glove box handle and I was quite keen on maintaining the original look.Where can you get this "real wood" and is it a DIY job ?
I removed the strips (as described above) and bought a length of half-round hardwood beading. I cut two lengths of beading, rounded the ends with sandpaper and varnished them. They are fixed to the door cards using tiny self-tapping screws going through the existing holes where the bolts went. I re-varnished my glove box handle at the same time:
The wood came from a well-known DIY store, but you could probably get it from any decent hardware shop. I can't take any credit for this idea... another PH'er on this forum had done the same thing and it was described on here a couple of years ago!
Gerald-TVR said:
Hi Pies
Can you tell me if they used the same approach for the 'Walnut' dash or was it painted. If so do you have any idea if that was done in-house or any idea of who might hame done it, thanks
Sorry missed this, its a very thin paper veneer no need to be do thin though Can you tell me if they used the same approach for the 'Walnut' dash or was it painted. If so do you have any idea if that was done in-house or any idea of who might hame done it, thanks
pies said:
Gerald-TVR said:
Hi Pies
Can you tell me if they used the same approach for the 'Walnut' dash or was it painted. If so do you have any idea if that was done in-house or any idea of who might hame done it, thanks
Sorry missed this, its a very thin paper veneer no need to be do thin though Can you tell me if they used the same approach for the 'Walnut' dash or was it painted. If so do you have any idea if that was done in-house or any idea of who might hame done it, thanks
However, I can imagine that some kind of veneer was used for the flat strip on the later type dash.
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