Hi

Bought a black leather interior if ebay today got it home and realised it is electric window rear door cards and our stilo having window winders

has anybody had this problem before and overcome it ?

i dont fancy fitting electric windows in the back to be honest


im going to have a look tomorrow at the winders and see if its possible to just drill a hole in the new cards for the winder to poke through

if not im thinging i could try and take the leather section off of the complete door card and to the same to my fabric ones and swap them over
not sure how to re secure them again other than glue wich im not sure will be strong enough

anybody tried this before either ?


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the other weired bit is the back drivers side were the window winder is/will go there is a tweeter hole/vent
but only on the drivers side the passenger is plain

if it goes wrong i can alway strip the leather section off and try and put it on the existing card

think there will be a lot of swapping over the best parts of the two interiors

cant complain got the full interior, door cards and centre console and a few other bits for £100

Originally Posted by scottie2065

line up your old cards with your new ones mark them with chalk and drill like a man possessed, thats how i would do it, use a small drill bit as i pilot hole and work your way up, through bigger bits. your winder should cover it mate, can you take the arm rest bit off your old cards and switch it onto your new ones. so then you wont have elec window switches??

memories ......I did something like this on my old Alfa 156 when i changed the cloth interior to a cord type interior.

take your time and mesure everything at least twice. best of luck!

Woo Hoo
Finished it all
after lots of swearing and back pain

I measured all the holes loads of times and still go them wrong but it didnt matter as the coller/surround behind the wiper arm hid it all

the door card cut nice and easy with a jr hacksaw blade aswell
was close on one of the doors but all fits fine




Gone from this


To this

Just needs a better clean and condition

quite pleased with the result
cant be many 1.6's with leather


had a funny moment though
fitted the rear door card screwed & bolted it all together
shut the door and the door handle didnt work
striped the door again and checked it all
refitted it all again and still didnt work
was about to lose my temper and strip the door again and remembered i had the child locks on what a f'kin twat


if anybody wants any ive got all the electric window switches going spare including the drivers with control of all the windows