well, my material arrived today so me and the mrs decided to attempt to recover a rear doorcard to see how easy/difficult it was going to be.
first of all i got my material and glue out of the shed
then i took the doorcard off which turned out to be a right **** as not only were there clips but some horrible adhesive which had gone rock hard so fell to pieces as i pulled it away.
first thing was to remove the pull handle which was only 2 screws so nice and easy.
then my other half removed the old grey ***** from the doorcard. it came away fairly easy leaving this
cut a piece to size so it was a little easier to work with
mid-way through spraying and trying to leave no creases
after a lot of messing around we ended up with this
which then looked like this when i re-fitted it
doesnt look too bad, however there are 2 small creases which were unavoidable due to the type of material used as it gave no stretch so unfortunately there is also a cut along the top of where your arm would rest.
this was only a trial to see if/how it could be done. we are confident that we can get a much better finish with some suede or maybe even alcantara