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Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 2:40 pm 
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How hard is it to cut a hole for the winders in the door trim's? I want to upgrade my crapy gli doors for ghia (woodgrain) ones but i dont want to do the power windows mod.
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Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 2:54 pm 
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the wood grain just sticks on, you could rip it off and put it on yours easily ...

 

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Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 7:32 pm 
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yeah i would just stick that on but i want the armrests and the carpeted bit at the bottom.
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Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 7:35 pm 
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Just buy Futura, Fairmont or (Fairlane) door trims.
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Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 7:39 pm 
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well once again i ask the same question how hard is it to cut a hole for the winders?
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Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 7:45 pm 
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hmmm... you have an issue though, in that the armrests cover up where the winder hole would need to be - so it won't work! you can pinch the woodbrain etc and the fabric inserts, but you can't have the padded armrests with manual winders AFAIK :?

 

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Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 7:48 pm 
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correct Bob ... Stixinc go have a look at a set of futura/above door trims, you'll see what we mean. You will either need to manual cover/woodgrain your trims or upgrade to elec windows.

Orrrrrr if you are really clever you might find a way of combining the two but it would be a lot of moudling and fabric/plastic work...

 

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Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 12:47 am 
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ok thanks for the replies. Do you reckon its possible to put GLi arm rests on the ghia door? and then custom pad it up?
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Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 1:00 am 
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woodgrain huh... what do they stick it down wit?

 

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Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 2:51 am 
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They stick thru holes in the trim then you flatten what pokes though to create a locking effect.
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Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 5:57 am 
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This is possible, you just need to sacrifice either the armrest or the map holder. If you want it for the armrest just drop the winder down a bit, if you want the map pocket, it sticks on, the winder will fit where it normally goes.

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Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 1:21 pm 
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ok so say i sacrifice the arm rest how easy is it to change the armrests and will it look bad?
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Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 2:19 am 
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You're going to have a hole in the trim if you use the GLi armrests, the armrest bolts into a different location into the door and trim.

 

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Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 3:24 am 
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By that I mean either you can add the map pocket to the GLi trims, either by attatching the map pocket part or swapping the bottom half with a higher model door trim, swap the inserts and attatch the woodgrain strips.

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Get the Fairmont trims and remove the map holders by swapping the bottom half of the door trims with the GLi ones, and cut a hole for the manual winder.

 

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