These metal tabs hold the door insert panels in place. Lifting up on the tabs allow the inserts and armrest to be removed
The armrest and inserts are easily removed one by one from the door.
With the armrest and inserts all removed, they can be taken to Sweidit to be covered in Alcantara.
Sweidit is making a name for themselves for the quality of their interior products. They wrap Alcantara on dashes, seats, inserts, etc…
We reinstalled the Alcantara door inserts and Napa Leather with red stitching to give the car a little more color and character.
The door trim inserts were covered in real carbon fiber to give the car a more modern look and to match the center console.
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That looks great and really provides subtle updates yet retains much of the look and feel of the original.
Be careful with that headunit though, or the android based ones like that. They usually run older builds of android, on older processors, with no way to *easily* upgrade the OS without rooting it and going down a rabbit hole there… It’s like buying a 5yr old android phone today, and using it, assuming it’ll work like today’s phones. Still a huge improvement from where you’re coming from. 🙂
You can still find some period correct headunits from pioneer or my favorite a Nakamichi CD45Z from that era. excellent quality, and has a line input, which you can adapt a BT adapter to. Sony also makes modern double-DIN headunits with knobs. KNOBS! God I miss knobs on aftermarket headunits.