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i have a dumb question?
The speaker panels in the rear, what kind of material is best to recover them? Mine has a very small tear in one of them and it drives me nuts.(Yes I'm a little crazy when it comes keeping my firebird in mint shape)
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well i would not really care if i was in your shoes but um since u seem to care so much just pull a old speaker out of a next car take that stuff off and glue it on yours, almost all stock speakers have that stuff on it.
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It is the same fabric used for the headliner. I just recovered my sail panels, and used a really nice shade of gray that I found at Joann's Fabric. It was cheap and does not hurt the sound at all. HTH. Thomas
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I recently redid my camaro. I used a cheap, black fabric from Wal-Mart. They have this stuff, it's white, in a roll with the specialty stuff - it's called something like "fusable mesh". It looks like Tyvek - the stuff they used to use as disk protectors on 5.25" floppy disks (am I showing my age?). This stuff is like iron-on glue - just put this over the old panel, and lay the fabric on top, and iron - the heat melts the stuff into a seamless glue. Then simply wrap around the edges to the backside, put some strips of this fusable mesh there under the edge, and iron again. Then cut off excess and DONE! Works really well on that paperboard/cardboard stuff they make the sail panels out of.
NOTE: Headliner in mine was made from some plastic/foamy stuff - iron might melt it and thus this stuff may be NO GOOD for headliner applications - but worked GREAT for sail panels.
NOTE: Headliner in mine was made from some plastic/foamy stuff - iron might melt it and thus this stuff may be NO GOOD for headliner applications - but worked GREAT for sail panels.
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Originally posted by icebird_1981
oh u r talkin about that big pannel that slides up to take off. or that mesh stuff that covers the top of the speaker itself?
oh u r talkin about that big pannel that slides up to take off. or that mesh stuff that covers the top of the speaker itself?
No. The panal that covers the speaker.
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