geoffbland
Emira Fanatic
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?
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?
