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Old Jan 24, 2014 | 01:53 PM
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Need help doing my inserts! I have the vinyl wrapped and ready to install. I destroyed the little black clips to get the cardboard off. How do you go about reinstalling it? I used screws and cardboard washers and screwed them into where the white clips were since you won't see it but you can't for the black ones.

I tried using Epoxy to hold down metal clips on the door then I would slide the cardboard thing over them and bend it over to hold the cardboard in place. Only like 3 clips worked, the rest of them broke.

Can I just try to slide whats left of the black tabs on the cardboard and use a puddle of Epoxy to hold it with a clamp?

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Old Jan 24, 2014 | 02:10 PM
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This is what i did and it worked pretty good. Get a soldering iron and use the leftover plastic from a modeling kit and melt it. Hold down the insert an melt the plastic on to the old tabs. Make sure your outside.
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Old Jul 13, 2014 | 09:28 PM
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Is this seriously the option? Soldering iron the remnants of plastic?
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I used melted plastic on my ebrake boot. If I would redo my doors I would use melted plastic again..way better than hot glue
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How did you secure your fabric? Did you glue it to the cardboard panel?
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Staple Gun along the edge where you don't see
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