door panel inserts falling off
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door panel inserts falling off
i have a 2005 escape and my leather(or fake leather) fell off of all four doors. i tried upholstery spray glue from the parts store but it fell off again THE NEXT DAY! how is everybody fixing this issue?
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Two things I would expect to work are 1) 3M spray upholstery & trim and 2) RTV silicone.
The spray is such that you spray both surfaces, let it 'cure' for 2-3 minutes, then put the two together. Similar to the 'yellow snot' that comes in a tube, applied with a brush to both surfaces, etc.
RTV will stick stuff together, but I think you'd have to use some painters or adhesive tape to hold the trim in place until it cured. Spread on the areas where you can see the two pieces had contact previously. Don't get on the visible surfaces as you'll have a hard time removing all traces.
tom
The spray is such that you spray both surfaces, let it 'cure' for 2-3 minutes, then put the two together. Similar to the 'yellow snot' that comes in a tube, applied with a brush to both surfaces, etc.
RTV will stick stuff together, but I think you'd have to use some painters or adhesive tape to hold the trim in place until it cured. Spread on the areas where you can see the two pieces had contact previously. Don't get on the visible surfaces as you'll have a hard time removing all traces.
tom
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I was doing fleet work and all the Taurus' did this in the 2000's.
The County was paying to replace door panels then got tired of that
and the glue fixes, so I came up with this:
I threw the vinyl pieces away and scrubbed all of the foamy cake-like stuff off the
door trim. Masked it off and sprayed a thin coat of undercoating down where
the little vinyl insert had been. When it dried I spray paint the matching color,
usually a medium gray in a couple of light coats. Unmask it after an hour.
It actually looks like vinyl because of the texture from the undercoating but spray it lightly.
Not thick. Nobody notices and it won't come off. We would do all four doors and it was never
a problem unless the driver simply wore the paint on the driver's door through, then we would
respray that one door trim. You don't really need to take them off the doors to do this. Just mask
it well. This sounds ghetto, but if you take your time to get all of the foamy junk off and do
a good job it will come out nice and you won't have to worry about it again.
The County was paying to replace door panels then got tired of that
and the glue fixes, so I came up with this:
I threw the vinyl pieces away and scrubbed all of the foamy cake-like stuff off the
door trim. Masked it off and sprayed a thin coat of undercoating down where
the little vinyl insert had been. When it dried I spray paint the matching color,
usually a medium gray in a couple of light coats. Unmask it after an hour.
It actually looks like vinyl because of the texture from the undercoating but spray it lightly.
Not thick. Nobody notices and it won't come off. We would do all four doors and it was never
a problem unless the driver simply wore the paint on the driver's door through, then we would
respray that one door trim. You don't really need to take them off the doors to do this. Just mask
it well. This sounds ghetto, but if you take your time to get all of the foamy junk off and do
a good job it will come out nice and you won't have to worry about it again.
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