[TR] TR6 Door Skin Installation

[Doug Mathews]

Door skins are not that hard to do really, especially after the first 
one. Usually removing the old skns can be more difficult.  If you are 
not going to have the door painted at the time the skins go on  and wilt 
repaint the whole car once the body work has been done, it might not be 
too expensive to take your doors and new skins to a body shop and let 
them do it. If they are the ones that might do the repaint, you should 
get a pretty good deal. A good body guys should be able to re-skin the 
door in a morning easy.

Doug
On 2/25/2013 1:20 AM, D&B Lambert wrote:
> After removing the paint from the drivers door on my 71 TR6 restoration
> project I find that door has sustained accident damage some time in it's
> past and was apparently repaired by the cheapest, fastest method: plenty of
> filler.  No rust on the door, just lots and lots of bondo - about 3/8 of an
> inch in places.  Can anyone comment on the difficulty of installing a new
> door skin?  The door frame seems to be fine.  I could try to tap out the
> dents and shrink the panel back into shape, but my body working skills are
> somewhat mediocre. Any been-there-done-that experience in installing new
> door skins that anybody can relate?  Door skins are not cheap, but I'm not
> wanting to simply re-stuff the door with bondo like some DPO was.