or what ever material you want for that matter.

first off use this link to take the door panels off.
How to remove and install door speakers - Cobalt SS Network

materials needed:
1 or 2 cans of body shop spray heavy duty headliner and carpet adhesive
at least 1 or 1.5 yards of material you want to use
something to cut material with
hot glue gun
super glue

Step 1.

flip the door panel over and scrap off the melted rivits that hold the insert in place, notice the inserts are made of carbon fiber.

Step 2

remove the insert from door panel


Step 3

Cut the material to size for the door insert, not exact size you will need slack for stretching and trimming


Step 4

spray adhesive 1 coat on the door insert over the material on the insert, spray 1 coat on the back side of material you are appling. Let dry for 5 min, repeat this step for as many coats as you want. I used 2 thick coats. Let dry for 5-10 min.

Step 5

Start appling the material starting with the bottom edge of the insert and work your way to the top from rear to forward of insert.


Step 6
after appling material, cut out the hole for the window/lock controls


Step 7
place the insert back into the door panel, you may need help for this. clean up the rough edges of the studs that are left over. place super glue on the studs. press fit the insert back on. you will have to hold the insert in place in multiple places and this is where i had help. after superglue is holding, place hot glue over the holes onthe studs of insert.



Step 8

Place door panel back on and you are done


ive done this to many of my old cars, my favorate was the black velvot w/ red satin flames on my door panels, w/ black velvot with large red satin flames on the overhead. All plastic in the car was fiberglassed and painted red. Looked really good till i blew the motor up.

 

holy ****... it can be done

Sweet write up my dude...

$YM$

 

Yeah that looks really good I might have to do that sometime.

 

Very nice...what material did you use btw?

 

i was going to do it tomarrow after work. what is the glue that you used?

 

WOW Looks like mine. That's pretty freaking sick! I think it's be sweet with some suade (sp?) in there. And t oaccent it, get the inserts in the seats done in suade as well. HMMMM......

BTW: Make sure not to trim the material to short near the handle, otherwise you'll end up like us SS/SC owners

 

I just read that the insert is Carbon Fiber?? That would also be sweet just to have those CF.

 

dude.... what are the brand names of the stuff that you used?

 

dont worry i was warrned about that already, i cut it long enough to tuck and rap around and glue it down, thats what happend the first time when i cut one edge too short. I just now got off my lazy but and fixed it.

 

yeah when you take them off, flip it over and look at the non material side, its carbon fiber. I'm sure if you pulled the material off instead of just covering it up and clean up the glue they used with turpintine, clear coat the carbon fiber, would probebly look sweet. The silver trim that is on the dash, well im going to make that silver trim stripe go on the door to line up with the trim on the dash. I'll put some pics up of that too when im done.

 

LOOKS great!!! I'll have to upgrade to suade when I'm brave enough to attempt that. Was it hard to contour to the insert or didn't it fit pretty well? What's the difficulty rating you think?

 

i didnt use a brand name material, i just used red vinyl

the spray glue is permatex

 

nice. maybe i'll redo mine myself since waiting for the dealer to fix them takes forever.

 

looks awesome.

great right up and idea for those people who wanted the inserts and the Recaros

 

Anyone know the bulletin number for this exact recall? Since ours came cut too short on the passanger side. Any info on this recall would be great. thanks

 

i seen in your sig about the valve springs and stage 2 cams, i was wondering did you get the computer moded or just running it with the stage 2 cams and it works. if so let me know because they have some stage 1 2 and 3 cams for the 2.2L cobalts

 

make sure that glue or whatever it is can withstand high temps

 

I appreciate this post more and more after today...

I posted my lil rant on ***************..long and short of it... I went to an auto upholstery place to see how much they would charge to do this...

$225 PER DOOR PANEL!?!?! INSANE!!!

Big props again to the originator of this post... Pimp on... Pimp Strong

$YM$

 

did you take off the old fabric or just go over it?

 

Okay so I'm gonna tackle this on Tuesday... one last question for anyone who's done this... what's the easiest way to scrape off the plastic rivets? I don't want to waste too much time doing that and getting frustrated... Props

$YM$

 

needle nose pliars, flat head screwdriver, its pretty easy with those

 

Props for the info... Now the only thing I'm a lil nervous about is the window sail where the tweeter pod is... I don't wanna just yank and break something... We'll see how it goes I guess... any other helpful tips?

 

Finally got around to doin it... here's mine if anyone wants to see some blue action

 

nice job

 

much props, i didnt want to be the only LS around w/ door inserts.