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interior swap. whos done it

Started by dansvlct · 10 Oct 2012 · 5 replies

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dansvlctArchived member
Hi all im looking at doin an interior swap in my vl calais from beige to blue. So complete swap. Is it hard to do? And how long
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12maneymArchived member
my brothers doin it at the mo. as long as you pull the glass out you'll be fine. hes also put all the electric windows from his calais into this new shell!
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FLY-03LArchived member
I havnt done a full swap... but ive essentially had my whole interior out in pieces.. Converted SL to Calais. The only tricky bit would be the roof lining as it tucks into the rear windscreen rubber seal
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Matt.Archived member
I've pulled out blue SL and replaced it with red Calais stuff. No electrics but it was all pretty easy and straight forward. It was about 12 months back but from memory I think it took about 5.5 hrs. The biggest pain was remembering how the dash went back together after pulling it out. Re; Rooflining, I just very carefully cut the old rooflining out around the rear 'screen and used an industrial spray adhesive (can get it from any decent hardware shop) to put the new stuff in. You can't tell that it's been done in this way by looking at it. Just make sure if you do it like that, prior to spraying anything that you've pulled the rooflining tight and that there's no creases. Because once you spray it, it's stuck.
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dansvlctArchived member
ok thanks heaps for your help guys. might start this weekend Some original photos have not been recovered yet.
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5spdvlArchived member
I've done it, and the roof sucks. Back window should come out.
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