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1998 V70XC Door Vinyl Removal and Refit Part 2

Help, Advice and DIY Tutorials on Volvo's P80 platform cars -- Volvo's 1990s "bread and butter" cars -- powered by the ubiquitous and durable Volvo inline 5-cylinder engine.

1992 - 1997 850, including 850 R, 850 T-5R, 850 T-5, 850 GLT
1997 - 2000 S70, S70 AWD
1997 - 2000 V70, V70 AWD
1997 - 2000 V70-XC
1997 - 2004 C70

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Re: 1998 V70XC Door Vinyl Removal and Refit Part 2

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C1ph3r wrote: 29 Aug 2024, 07:26 Oh my foam is trashed so I’m using what came from redline. And thanks for the tips. I wouldn’t have thought about doing the inside of the cups then the walls as 2 steps to prevent tension. I’m probably going to use my steamer and steam the leather a little to get the shipping wrinkles out.

This is my first time also and I’m doing a rear door first. So I’ll learn from back to front. Hopefully by time I get to the drivers door I’ll have it down
Steamer would probably be great. And just to clarify, by bottom of the cups/sunken part, I was talking as if the door panel was laying down flat on the workbench. I started with the rear passenger door and worked my way up to the drivers door. Drivers door has a slightly extra complexity because the speaker grills retain the leather, and are secured with melted tabs. I dremeled mine off very carefully, and then melted zip ties on the backside of the tabs to secure them back.

I really should have done a writeup in a thread after the job, but I lost all my pictures that would have broken up the wall of text.

Good luck with this project.
1998 V70XC black 183xxx
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1998 V70XC nautic blue 155xxx
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Previous Volvos:
1997 850 GLT 239,577
1998 V70 NA silver 202,510
1994 850 NA gray 125,000
1998 V70 NA white 163xxx

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