19-10-2023, 06:13 PM
Hugh, I took a look back over my old pics to see if I had anything on the intermediate stages of my fitting the vinyl, unfortunately not.
As noted previously I had no wood in the car whatsoever, including the two thin wooden strips that would have been held in by the four metal clips on the underside on each side on the metal frame of the sliding roof. I looked at many ways of trying to make and fit these but could come up with a suitable solution. It would have meant removing all of the clips then forming the strips and then welding the clips back, the wood was beyond my abilities and so I do not have those strips of wood that the vinyl would tack into.
The vinyl I used was from Woolies and it had no stretch in it at all, which was good.
I ensured all the padding was suitably tacked using stitching to the hessian to ensure it did not go anywhere when fitting the vinyl.
Then tacked and glued the vinyl along the wood on the rear of the rear of the sliding panel ensuring it was flat and smooth.
I then glued the vinyl directly along the underside of the metal frame at the front of the frame again ensuring the vinyl was tight, the overhang at each end were glued together.
Along the sides these were again glued direct to the metal, ensuring the vinyl was taught. The corners sere then turned under and glued.
I did use a metal strip to hold the rubber at the rear end, it is the thin metal strip in the pic of the parts against the sofa!
FYI, I also used self adhesive felt pads on the sliding parts to prevent metal to metal contact on the rails. These are still good.
Hope this helps
Cheers
As noted previously I had no wood in the car whatsoever, including the two thin wooden strips that would have been held in by the four metal clips on the underside on each side on the metal frame of the sliding roof. I looked at many ways of trying to make and fit these but could come up with a suitable solution. It would have meant removing all of the clips then forming the strips and then welding the clips back, the wood was beyond my abilities and so I do not have those strips of wood that the vinyl would tack into.
The vinyl I used was from Woolies and it had no stretch in it at all, which was good.
I ensured all the padding was suitably tacked using stitching to the hessian to ensure it did not go anywhere when fitting the vinyl.
Then tacked and glued the vinyl along the wood on the rear of the rear of the sliding panel ensuring it was flat and smooth.
I then glued the vinyl directly along the underside of the metal frame at the front of the frame again ensuring the vinyl was tight, the overhang at each end were glued together.
Along the sides these were again glued direct to the metal, ensuring the vinyl was taught. The corners sere then turned under and glued.
I did use a metal strip to hold the rubber at the rear end, it is the thin metal strip in the pic of the parts against the sofa!
FYI, I also used self adhesive felt pads on the sliding parts to prevent metal to metal contact on the rails. These are still good.
Hope this helps
Cheers