How To Fix Cracked Plastic Door Panel

Over time the sun eats away at plastic and eventually it starts to flake off much like how steel rusts.

How to fix cracked plastic door panel.

To keep the crack from continuing we drilled the end. You can fix them using this method. If you want the repair to last you have to stop the crack. Hello everyone sweet project cars here wit.

Especially if you picked up some swap meet cracked up doo. Dip a small paintbrush or swab into the liquid plastic and use it to fill in the crack. This is done by drilling the ends of the crack with a small drill bit. 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. 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. We show you how to use fast setting glue the correct way.

How to fix an interior door panel that has broken tabs. 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. 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.