How To Fix Cracked Plastic Door Panel

Due to poor design and many years of strain it split along the handle line.

How to fix cracked plastic door panel.

Brush the plastic slurry over the crack to fill in the seam. Dip a small paintbrush or swab into the liquid plastic and use it to fill in the crack. Cleaning the panel with wax and grease remover is the best way to get the part clean without damaging the plastic. With the acetone fully removed from the mixture you can apply the plastic slurry made from your scrap plastic.

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If your door panels on your classic car are cracked no worries. We had a pair of sun bleached plastic door panels from a 1974 dodge challenger that were in need of some restoration. A crack will continue to tear the plastic unless you remove the stress point drilling does just that. I m sure there are better ways of fixing it but this is my way.

This is done by drilling the ends of the crack with a small drill bit. Over time the sun eats away at plastic and eventually it starts to flake off much like how steel rusts. Especially if you picked up some swap meet cracked up doo. Remove the spline and apply a liberal amount of wood glue into the crack.

You can fix them using this method.