glove box liner

Hi all,

my glove box liner is in not too bad shape for something 40yrs old and made of cardboard

......but I want to preserve it for a few more years

its looking a bit tattered but no holes or rips - so I was thinking of getting some fibre glass resin and coating the whole thing to give it a bit of strength, and so I can give it a coat of paint

so has any one done this? I was thinking of just using the resin and not any glass tissue

.....your thoughts please

 

I was going to do mine with glass matting untill zed told me that jk sell a plastic one

 

Diddy wont do that, that would involve improving his bus.

 

I'm sure I read some where the plastic ones wernt a very good fit or quality? ....unless some one can tell me otherwise?

keep out of this you .....I thought you said you loved my bus ....especially my dash board and engine bay

 

Ive just gaffer taped the whole thing. Thatl do me!

 

http://www.justkampers.com/211-857-101-glovebox-liner-plastic-for-t2-1967-1979.html

 

The liner is perfect - it just needs the manufacturing excess trimmed.

 

paint it? why not just line it with fabric on the inside? you can use that self adhesive fabric they use for lining speaker boxes, when you put two patches together you can't tell there's a seam between them.

 

Yeh but £30. Gaffer tapes the boy - like the idea of a lining but probably never get around to it!

 

Dale
I bought a plastic one, it is still in my garage as couldn't get it to fit. As a result the old cardboard one went back in, like yours a bit tatty and had thought of fibre glassing it like you suggest but at the time I didn't have time. I had thought that I would fit the plastic one this year, no doubt after a bit of trimming. Mind lots of fencing to do here first

 

thats not what Pickles said

 

i did mine in the same way ive done all my panels in the van. old album ripped up and pasted on with a mix of wall paper paste and pva glue theres some pics in the "Door cards - options other than vinyl?" thread on here it really did stiffen my knackered glovebox liner up

 

^this sounds good - a bit of papier mache . Keep your old cardboard one. Plastic ones are an abomination.

 

I fitted an aftermarket one and it fitted perfect after trimming the excess

 

At the time I didn't trim anything off as too pushed for time. I obviously need to work out what 'the excess' is

 

hmmm... £30 seems a bit steep for some one as tight as me

 

the excess is around 30mm on one side i think, then a bit on all the corners, dale i think you should spend £28 pounds on fibreglass resin and 3 days to repair it and i think you will be quids in

 

I wonder if his ahem usual supplier has fiberglass in stock lol

 

ah yes i forgot about the high discount his position affords him

 

pmsl .....I was thinking that ....and another £12 for paint

hmmm ....I hadnt thought of that though ....I'll speak to the lamminators at work tomorrow ......I mean, the usual suppliers