New Mod for my Lambo Doors

[Dr Bonz]

As I posted many moons ago, my son accidentally vertically opened up my passenger side Lambo door before he had it out far enough horizontally.

This caused a big ding in the door panel on the inside of the door. I did the same thing later although to a much less noticible degree on the driver's side.

I have been trying to come up with a way to put some kind of pad or bumper on this area to #1 cover up the dings and #2 prevent them from happening again in the future.

Here is what I did:

I bought these door edge guard bumpers from Autosport.

http://www.autosportcatalog.com/index.cfm?fa=p&pid=1901&cid=105

They are called the "slim line" door edge guards on the above page.

I cut them and then attempted to simply peel off the adhesive and stick them on.

This didn't work very well since #1 the adhesive wasn't strong enought and didn't stick well to the "snake skin" of the door panel and #2 the place were I needed to stick them is approximately a 90 degree angled section of door panel.

I then took a sharp knife and dug out a "V" shaped groove in the sticky side of the guard. I then used a hot glue gun to glue them on with the "V" shaped notch draped over the 90 degree edge of the panel.

Here is a pick of the drivers side ding:

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Here is the bumper cut to length (they come in about 10 inch sections)

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Here is the back (adhesive side) with the groove cut in it:

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Here is what I ended up with after hot gluing them on:

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Here is how it protects the panel if you lift the door too soon:

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Driver's side:

[jcn30127]

Good Idea. Looks Great !!!

It's unfortunate in my opinion that some of the Z interior pieces are so delicate.

[mcduck]

Bonz... sometimes the simple solutions are the best! What would it take to get you to make a pair of those and mail them to me?

[Dr Bonz]

You really don't need to "make" anything Andy. I still have some of the bumpers left. I can just send them to you and you just cut them to the length you want. E-mail me your home address and I'll send them. bonz@nauticom.net Put 350Z in the subject line so my spam filter doesn't kill your e-mail.

[aeleven]

Driver's side: I like the Lambo Doors alot, but do you ever get and people that give you crap because they think it looks riced out, im 32 years old and its a button that i dont liked pushed, i hate it when im critized acting my age, It burns me. If this happens to you how do you deal with it.

[Dr Bonz]

No one has ever said anything like that. At least not to my face. To each his own. There are things that I have seen people do to their cars that I would never do to mine but for whatever reason, they like it. It's their car and if they like it, more power to them.

[Dr Bonz]

Here is a perfect example. Now, I would NEVER do this to my car but I do think it looks pretty cool and apparently so does it's owner so what ever suits him is fine.

[AuburnZ]

only word i have is...Interesting...

[hongkongstewy]

Definitely different...

[Dr Bonz]

Yep! _____________ :)

[aeleven]

Here is a perfect example. Now, I would NEVER do this to my car but I do think it looks pretty cool and apparently so does it's owner so what ever suits him is fine.
I could see a chick with that but a guy????

[Dr Bonz]

Like I said, if he likes it then that's all that matters. He was actually a very nice guy.