How To Fix Cracked Plastic Door Panel

If your door panels on your classic car are cracked no worries.

How to fix cracked plastic door panel.

How to fix an interior door panel that has broken tabs. Over time the sun eats away at plastic and eventually it starts to flake off much like how steel rusts. Brush the plastic slurry over the crack to fill in the seam. We had a pair of sun bleached plastic door panels from a 1974 dodge challenger that were in need of some restoration.

This door panel came off the straight axle swap blazer. Dip a small paintbrush or swab into the liquid plastic and use it to fill in the crack. Hello everyone sweet project cars here wit. If you want the repair to last you have to stop the crack.

We show you how to use fast setting glue the correct way. Remove the spline and apply a liberal amount of wood glue into the crack. With the acetone fully removed from the mixture you can apply the plastic slurry made from your scrap plastic. Due to poor design and many years of strain it split along the handle line.

I m sure there are better ways of fixing it but this is my way. Be sure to fill it in completely and apply the putty as evenly as you can. A crack will continue to tear the plastic unless you remove the stress point drilling does just that. To keep the crack from continuing we drilled the end.

Cleaning the panel with wax and grease remover is the best way to get the part clean without damaging the plastic.