How To Fix Cracked Plastic Door Panel

We had a pair of sun bleached plastic door panels from a 1974 dodge challenger that were in need of some restoration.

How to fix cracked plastic door panel.

Cleaning the panel with wax and grease remover is the best way to get the part clean without damaging the plastic. A crack will continue to tear the plastic unless you remove the stress point drilling does just that. This is done by drilling the ends of the crack with a small drill bit. You can fix them using this method.

Be sure to fill it in completely and apply the putty as evenly as you can. Due to poor design and many years of strain it split along the handle line. This door panel came off the straight axle swap blazer. Dip a small paintbrush or swab into the liquid plastic and use it to fill in the crack.

Especially if you picked up some swap meet cracked up doo. If your door panels on your classic car are cracked no worries. Hello everyone sweet project cars here wit. Over time the sun eats away at plastic and eventually it starts to flake off much like how steel rusts.

Remove the spline and apply a liberal amount of wood glue into the crack. To keep the crack from continuing we drilled the end. I m sure there are better ways of fixing it but this is my way. We show you how to use fast setting glue the correct way.

If you want the repair to last you have to stop the crack.