door panel

[dbrichrider33333]

if your looking for ebony leather....good luck haha. it took me forever to find a driver and passenger panel used w/o cracks for my ceta..but i did find some and still paid quite a bit..the first thing i did before installing them was the door panel fix to prevent them from cracking....they havent cracked yet!!

[Cutlass]

It's fairly well documented that the problem is heat cycling. The metal vs plastic expansion rates. Hence why mine cracked even though I hadn't driven it in a month and it hadn't seen any snow.... It did see extreme cold in the garage.

me too. My passenger panel cracked in the middle of winter in the garage. the car was just sitting there for 1 month. One day it was fine. a few days later I popped inside to grab something and noticed it cracked.

[PontiacFan]

Also, the next time you put the window all the way down, ..., watch the panel flex in that area.
I never put my windows down all the way anymore, & keep them a couple inches up if they need to go down for some reason. Don't have the cracks yet.
But I've already got a spare set of panels that I've done the staple/screw replacement on.
Flex that panel a few times & just watch it move, ...

[Cutlass]

EVERYONE who doesn't have cracked door panels should immediately go out and "fix" them so that they never crack. These crack-free panels are gonna be really hard to come by in the future so we should preserve the ones we have now.

[carnut7202]

thanks for the info guys .but if u already have a crack will the epoxy hold the crack together? i mean do you push the panel back together than apply the epoxy to fix the existing crack?