Replacement carbon doors, possible?

geoffbland · Jul 19, 2025

I'd been thinking about this for some time and with recent events I thought I would now ask. Some others on this forum had been asking too.

Given all the issues owners have had with paint bubbling/blistering on the Teijin supplied panels - and with many cars maybe soon to be past their 3/5 year warranties - there may be a ready market for replacement doors, or door skins. Maybe even for rear quarter-panels too.

I looked into it a bit and trying to do this yourself or even paying to have them custom-made (skinned) is ruinously expensive. But once a mould has been created it can be reused as can the specialist equipment needed, so I assume significant economies in volume.

So are any of the third-party supplies, Greg's, Jogon etc thinking about supplying third-party replacement panels for these? Maybe in carbon but fibreglass would be OK. Are there copy-right issues, skinning the existing parts? Is is economical? Roughly how much would the parts cost?

SimonT · 2025-08-10T13:04:19-0500

geoffbland said:
I'd been thinking about this for some time and with recent events I thought I would now ask. Some others on this forum had been asking too.

Given all the issues owners have had with paint bubbling/blistering on the Teijin supplied panels - and with many cars maybe soon to be past their 3/5 year warranties - there may be a ready market for replacement doors, or door skins. Maybe even for rear quarter-panels too.

I looked into it a bit and trying to do this yourself or even paying to have them custom-made (skinned) is ruinously expensive. But once a mould has been created it can be reused as can the specialist equipment needed, so I assume significant economies in volume.

So are any of the third-party supplies, Greg's, Jogon etc thinking about supplying third-party replacement panels for these? Maybe in carbon but fibreglass would be OK. Are there copy-right issues, skinning the existing parts? Is is economical? Roughly how much would the parts cost?

Have a look on AliExpress, lots of stuff for the Emira on there there may be some popping up.

NJemira85 · 2025-08-10T13:18:22-0500

SimonT said:
Have a look on AliExpress, lots of stuff for the Emira on there there may be some popping up.

I saw a carbon roof on some website recently.

SimonT · 2025-08-10T13:36:12-0500

NJemira85 said:
I saw a carbon roof on some website recently.

AliExpress, for all things Emira.

No-one in their right mind would spend that amount on there.

ADC · 2025-08-11T06:40:16-0500

If anyone reputable managed to make a quality option for replacement panels/skins, I'd probably even make the swap from "fixed" factory ones, purely for the peace of mind.

I'm also curious to know... can these kinds of bubbles legitimately be "baked" out of the panels? I ask because apparently that is how they rectify the quarter panels. I wonder what about the doors makes them unsuited to resolving the same way?

Steve Tillett · 2025-08-11T08:24:52-0500

ADC said:
If anyone reputable managed to make a quality option for replacement panels/skins, I'd probably even make the swap from "fixed" factory ones, purely for the peace of mind.

I'm also curious to know... can these kinds of bubbles legitimately be "baked" out of the panels? I ask because apparently that is how they rectify the quarter panels. I wonder what about the doors makes them unsuited to resolving the same way?

Mine has just gone in for another set of replacement doors and also the rear quarter panel this time, so I hope overheating the area does brings out the air sufficiently. In my experience with aerated mouldings, once the air is in there there is no removing it it, we just have to hope that the surface bubbles are all revealed and the deeper ones locked in well enough to not re appear. I'm shocked that the manufacturer of these panels has made such a bad job. You would think they would be paying for this level of fault. I know that if I supplied parts this aerated I would get them all back.