thought i would make a post on here of my D.I.Y retrim ...

its more a less how to than anything to help you lot out if you want to go the cheap and easy way I'm going with the trim

starting from the roof lining,then going to the doorcards and seats

i have only just finsihed doing the passengers side doorcard and took around half hour hour to get it spot on , will be doing the drivers side tommorow and start retrimming the rear bench

roof lining:

take the lining off by undoing the screws that are holding the grab handles on and remove the grab handles do the same with the sun visors and also take out the interior light which is just slotted in .

get the material you want to cover it in , cut it to shape and place it over the lining how u think it looks best the get some strong adhesive spray glue which you can get from halfrauds or anywhere like that and pull back the material a little bit at a time workin from top to bottom / bottom to top spraying the glue along the lining and then replace the material over the glue and rub it with your hands to get all the trapped air out and also any creases making sure its sticking aswell.

do this the hole lining and your on to a winner ...

once the middle section is glue ,around the edges - fold it over and use a hot glue gun to stick the edges to the back of the lining so it dont come loose and baggy .

any holes for bolt ect. cut out from the back and glue with hot glue on the back agin to gett it tight and not baggy.

It should end up looking like this once back in :

doorcards:

take the door card off is a good start...

on the mk4 there is a ridge that has been glued down from the factory so you cant see the end of the material , get a knife/ anything sharpish and flat then gently ease it up so the material can be slide up inside the ridge to look flushed once this is done top and bottom get the material you are going to retrim it in and cut it to size leaving more than enough material if it goes tits up .

again lay it in postion that you want it .. i then paced the material in the ridge at the top end and lifted up the material and sprayed the strong adhesive on the original material on the doorcard and then re layed the new material back into position again gently smoothing it over with your hand so all the creases and air gets out so it stricks smooth .. do this on the hole patch of material untill it is coverd , then at the other end cut the material in a line so it can again sit in the ridge and look flushed , also dont forget the fold back the edges around the handle end and where you hold on to to shut the door if you no what i mean , fold the hang over material onto the back of the doorcard pulling it tight so it stays tight and smooth .

and the end of it , it should look like this :

ino it seems complicated and the way i have written it dont really help or simplify things but if you want any more info on how to do it just ask and i will try explain a easier way ... i thought this would be a good post as I've had alot of people pm me and ask me how to do trimming yourself after i posted in my w.i.p

hope this helps and aint a waste of my time wrting all this lol

will hopefully update a lil tommorow once i have started retrimming my half leather ibiza seats

cheers

Edited 17 November, 200817 yr by dannyboi olop

just to add

I'm thinking of doing this for people for money , just to get my experience up and what have you ... if you go the lining , door cards and all pillars done at a retrimming shop i reckong your lookg at a good say £500-£700 ??

i can do it for £200 and that inc. material ... i will also have ago at doing a few other things for some extra cash ... i recently retrimmed my bonnet in leather aswell so can do that for £50

I'm in essex just to let people now if you want it done

cheers

thats a nice write up mate i don't have the pateince to do that lol... would you consider doing a bmw e36? the roof lining pilars and door cards? :p

fookin amazing work danny. wish had the talent to do that :(

mate do you know how hard it would be to do the whole doorcard, might have a go seeing as i can get the material i want

Edited 11 November, 200817 yr by youngdub

looks wicked that purple does mate

brilliant work pal, I'm deffo gonna have a crack at doin this(well, my door cards) but the purple roof looks the daddy

cheers people

kidd - yer I'm up for that should just be the same type of work with abit more material

youngdub - shouldnt actually be too hard dude , once you got the routein of how to get it smooth and uncreased its easy... what material you thinking ? i might be able to help you out doing it

have u had any ideas for the rear sides in a 3dr 6n?

i would love to do the roof linein but i have no money (student) and i have no patience i guess u need it?

i think ure polo looks quality with the roof linein and door cards done :)

where are you based danny could be interested in getting you to do a few bits on mine......

I'm in essex just to let people now if you want it done

looks good! nice little guide

thanks for the nice little guide, this page has been book marked

cheers people

got another update today :.:

managed to trim the drivers door last night and trimmed the rear doors today and also my nan finished trimming one panel of the rear seats took her 4 hours to do 1 panel and she has got to do 7 so hopefully she will have it all done easily by 2 weeks

as for the rear doorcards they was a nightmare but i know how to do it proply now and alot of patience is needed , i tried getting new doorcards as mine had 6x9 holes in them and couldnt deal with that but breakers yards want £30 for them so i decided i would try someting with the holes out of old ikea table matt lol dont look to terible but dont look great lol

anyway heres the pics of the doorcards done and one bit of seat :.:

seats cover off the sponge

and on the sponge put back together

hope you like

Hey i did my door cards about a week ago lol COPYCAT :p oj, only done one so far though good work, alot better response than my thread :)

http://www.clubpolo.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=125738

Edited 12 November, 200817 yr by Boss

nice guide mate

your sofa looks well comfy!

cheers people

kidd - yer I'm up for that should just be the same type of work with abit more material

youngdub - shouldnt actually be too hard dude , once you got the routein of how to get it smooth and uncreased its easy... what material you thinking ? i might be able to help you out doing it

was thinking about doing red leather on the door cards and all the little bit n bobs

re-trims looking good to mate

Edited 12 November, 200817 yr by youngdub

If your willing to come down to surrey on the weekend id be more than happy to pay £200 and ill even pay for your petrol.

Message me mate, my polo is indigo blue so id want a nice deep blue or perhaps a cream. message me anyway

Edited 12 November, 200817 yr by xb0vv

Great guide man, very good work too, love the purple, did you trim your boot install too?

I'd be happy to pay that kidan price for you to do mine, though it wouldnt be for a while, Essex is a bit far like lol.

Mines an Openair too so wouldnt need the roof lining doing, possibly door cards and seats, if i can get materials etc.. defo something id like doing eventually though

Edit: Should be copied and sticked to be honest

Edited 12 November, 200817 yr by smithy_6n

all pm's replied to

thanks for the nice comments everyone

looks fantastic man! very good, theres nothing better than that feeling after you work on your car, and it looks fantastic!

my question is:

how did you get the edges so neat on the B pillars? very good!

also, when taking out the door cards on the front... I'm not quite sure what you mean by the plastic edge.

is it on the door handle itself? or on the top part of the door card, where it is between the glass and the plastic?

sorry if I'm a bit thick here, I'm having a long day haha

ill get around to doing it soon, as soonas i have money again:)

shame ill be getting a rollcage soon and might have to take my liner out:(:(

Nice one mate!!! i've been waiting for this post to pop up!!! looking fresh!!!

where'd you get your material from? can you get all diff colours?

Edited 15 November, 200817 yr by minty_highway9

PIMP!!!!

another update :.:

my nan has been really busy lately so she aint managed to do it all yet but shes done most of the rear seats bar from one so will update when the rear is all done hopefully 2mora

but here's what shes done so far , looks good if i must say so myself , saved so much doe so far

also picked up a new 16v bumper the other day and i smoothed it out myself at college I'm loving all this not spending money lark

hope you like

Edited 17 November, 200817 yr by dannyboi olop

retrim is looking sick man, btw what glue did you use to do the pillars and roof lining as the stuff i used said it was good on the can and turned out to be soooo sh*t lol, also I'm smoothing my bumper out myself aswell D.I.Y smoothing FTW lol

Credit crunch FTW! I want to do mine!

lookin good dude