Thread: HOW TO: Restore your factory door pillar vinyl

I know most people prefer just peeling the vinyl off to reveal the paint underneath, but I prefer the continuous black look, especially with Tint.

The door Vinyl on my G20 was fading bad, I decided to fix it with some black Vinyl I got from a sign shop.

After that, all you need is a squeege (or a credit card) and an exacto knife.

Here's a quick picture:

• Purchase: Sheet of Vinyl. Usually 3 feet wide, buy about 2 feet in length.
• Purchase: Alcohol (or Acetone/Methanol) based wipes
• Purchase: Abrasive pads (Scowering, steel wool, etc).
• Need: Edge of a credit card or Squeegee of some sort.
• Need: Exacto knife or sharp blade.
• Prep: Use Abrasive pad with some soapy water, remove any dirt or bumps from old surface.
• Prep: Clean with alcohol based wipes to ensure good surface contact and no grease.
• Cut: Piece of vinyl slightly larger than pillar.
• Apply: Vinyl, start at the top, work your way down using the edge of a credit card, ensure that no air bubbles form. The credit card will be what pushes on the vinyl, hold the lower portion of the vinyl away from the car.
• Apply: pressure to the edges, wrap the vinyl around the edge of the door and tuck the edges out of sight.
• Cut: around entire edge with exacto knife to finish off, leave enough material to tuck.

were did you get the vinyl at.. because I need to re due mine. I don't know of anywhere to get the stuff

Local shop called Speedzone. Basically, any place that does vinyl can hook you up.

i can hook you guys up, how big of a piece do you guys need 99sel

clean fix man.

I'm interested. Just black for me and it has a sticky back right?

for the record, clean the old surface with an abrasive pad before the alcohol, I'm going to add that step, you want the old surface to be free of any debris or you're going to have bumps or peeling.

What about going directly on to the paint? Because my OEM vinyl is gone..

Chrysler actually did something like this in the 90s on some of their cars. The plastic was warping and they had us remove it and apply black vinyl.

Well see.. I have been looking for fiber covers for the outer door areas for a while now and can't seem to find them for the se-ls. I do how ever have a fiber dash kit from this company DBtrims.com. I'm going to call them tomorrow because they noted on there site that there are making them now for nissan's. Just not the sentra's in general yet. But for $50 for them in real fiber, I'm going to be all over them.