jabbahutt
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 posted on 24/4/08 at 10:53 AM |
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securing gaiters
morning all
I've been looking at all your finished car interior photos. One thing that baffling me that hopefully you can all help with.
I've got the holes in the trans tunnel cover for handbrake and gearstick. I've got the nice ali trim made to go round.
How do you secure the gaiter for the handbrake/gearstick to the underside of the trim or tunnel top. I can't imagine that you just stuff it
through the hole and leave it as non of the photos look like that's whats been done
All explainations welcome as I'm hoping to pick up a couple of gaiters at Stoneleigh
Cheers all
Nigel
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worX
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| posted on 24/4/08 at 10:57 AM |
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You can make a stainless/Ali surround and screw that to your tunnel.
Or
If you have a "finished" gaitor then you can simply screw that to your tunnel with some black self tappers.
Steve
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Paul TigerB6
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| posted on 24/4/08 at 10:58 AM |
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Probably the best way to do it is to make an aluminium trim ring to allow you to sandwich the gaiter between that and the ali panel. Secure the trim
ring with rivets going through the whole lot. Your carpets or proper trim rings will then hide the rough trim rings (or just do as Steve suggests and
use the one - although you do then need to unfix the gearlever gaiter to remove the centre panel rather than just remove the gearknob and slide it all
of in one piece).
Will U2U you now Nigel re Stoneleigh
[Edited on 24/4/08 by Paul TigerB6]
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DarrenW
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| posted on 24/4/08 at 11:04 AM |
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I did as paul sugests for revision 1. Just sandwiched the gaiter between tunnel top and trim ring.
Rev 2 - gaiter is sewn into the full padded tunnel cover.
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paulmw
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| posted on 24/4/08 at 12:50 PM |
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I did all of the above and it looked poo. Most of the after market trims are too big and it is difficult to achieve a high standard finish with ali.
(but then my hands are made of sausages)
I just cut down a standard gaitor and fixed it with self tapers as most of the other solutions trapped the switch
Paul
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02GF74
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| posted on 24/4/08 at 01:30 PM |
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I didn't do it but my gaitor is glued to the aluminium ring, then the ring is screwd down in place. Works well and looks neat.
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Paul TigerB6
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| posted on 24/4/08 at 02:01 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by paulmw
I did all of the above and it looked poo. Most of the after market trims are too big and it is difficult to achieve a high standard finish with ali.
(but then my hands are made of sausages)
Mine was hidden under the carpet (the Supercat - not the BEC which deffo wont be getting heavy carpets!!) so guess it depends what you have to finish
the tunnel with. Mine looks like this anyway and took under 30 mins to do.
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