Leather Door Insert Poll. What would you want in your car?

[hellaGT]

Just a few ideas/designs for replacement leather interior door inserts in my 99BD at RedlineGoods.com

Select a poll option or include your own idea for a simple leather/stitched design

Here is the leather insert installed. More pictures of the other doors coming soon.

https://sl-i.net/FORUM/images/imported/2010/03/DSC03136-1.jpg

Here is a sample picture of the original legacy BD door to help refer to

https://sl-i.net/FORUM/images/imported/2010/03/Doorcardcloth-1.jpg

Here are some pictures to help explain the options

1) Black leather with stitching around the outside
https://sl-i.net/FORUM/images/imported/2010/03/TiburonInterior03-1.jpg

2) Black leather with 2 stitched lines connecting the window panel to the door-pull
https://sl-i.net/FORUM/images/imported/2010/03/Doorcardcloth1gif-1.jpg

What do you think will look sick? let's see what kind of interest everyone has!

why leather?

as opposed to.. suede er something

[hellaGT]

Mostly to match the leather stitched shift boot I already have

[zmiko]

Lets see the shift boot, I'd do whatever matches it closest

[hellaGT]

Lets see the shift boot, I'd do whatever matches it closest

Any of the designs with black leather/ white stitching will match close enough IMO.

Here it is:

https://sl-i.net/FORUM/images/imported/2010/03/ShiftBoot-1.jpg

Leather is so much nicer than suede or cloth... :smt023

[mrpyb]

outside for sure! :smt023
any word on a price yet?

[impreza_GC8]

The outside red looks great! I'd love that if I had some red or red accented seats. Def have to keep that in mind for the future. I really like that checkered pattern too but I think the rest of the car would have to match as well and its almost too eye-catching. The red stitch is subtle but is a large improvement over stock and it doesn't break away from traditional Subaru styling.

[hellaGT]

Yeah I choose white stitching to keep the black/white contrast styling the car already had. I would agree for others to get red stitching though. I'm also looking for some leather stitched seats to go with the leather interior, maybe some legacy limited leather seats for relatively cheap. Interior styling was definitely a weak point for Subaru, but they have gotten a lot better in the newer cars though.

mrpyb, I'll get back to you about the price!

[mrpyb]

thanks man, you should definitely see if redline wants to setup a group buy for these so we can save a little green!

[hellaGT]

Oh I'm sure they will make some kind of deal.

Post something if you want to upgrade your interior!

[d1giPhux]

I don't really like the way any of those look. Makes it feel cheap and not so luxurious. Maybe its just because of the pictures you used, but for some reason I relate those patterns to being used on some cheap type vinyl and just don't see them appealing at all. I think more could be done with the design to make it more fresh, and 'one off custom' type looking. Not sure what, but maybe maciek from redline could help out here..

If i REALLY had to choose one of those, it would be the checkered pattern. Even though I think that looks weird. Reason being, our door panels are pretty 'flat' and plain looking. The cross pattern makes the black leather 'pop' more, and stand out a bit more amongst the flat plastic look on our doors.

[zmiko]

I'd be interested if redline put together a deal for us

[hellaGT]

I don't really like the way any of those look. Makes it feel cheap and not so luxurious. Maybe its just because of the pictures you used, but for some reason I relate those patterns to being used on some cheap type vinyl and just don't see them appealing at all. I think more could be done with the design to make it more fresh, and 'one off custom' type looking. Not sure what, but maybe maciek from redline could help out here..

If i REALLY had to choose one of those, it would be the checkered pattern. Even though I think that looks weird. Reason being, our door panels are pretty 'flat' and plain looking. The cross pattern makes the black leather 'pop' more, and stand out a bit more amongst the flat plastic look on our doors.

It's probably the flash in the pictures, I got those from the redlinegoods website. The cross pattern has that "pop" effect because there is foam padding stitched behind the leather.

The leather is really high quality, buttery, Italian leather and you can tell it's not vinyl just by looking at it. Pictures don't justify this. I don't know what your interior looks like but the leather will look fine against the vinyl interior in our cars imo. Get a leather shift boot and possibly an ebrake boot to match it and you're set.

[RedlineGoods]

Hi guys,

I was looking at the door design on your cars and came up with another alternative. The two lines extending from the bottom door pull to the window switches would accent the neat line between the pull and the window panel nicely. The horizontal-then-slanted line following the curvature of the entire insert would further enhance the stitching and make it stand out more (althought if it was my car, I'd have the insert without that line, just the first two).

https://sl-i.net/FORUM/images/imported/2010/03/Doorcardclothgif-1.jpg

What do you think?
Maciek

[hellaGT]

I think it's brilliant, I like it better than the other options. I knew you would have the eye for a design.

I'll take the winner so far up against the new idea. I'll enable a re-vote if anyone wants to change their vote to this design and add it to the poll.

With or with-out the center line?

[hellaGT]

Just a few ideas/designs for replacement leather interior door inserts in my 99BD at RedlineGoods.com


Here is the leather insert installed. More pictures of the other doors coming soon.

https://sl-i.net/FORUM/images/imported/2010/03/DSC03136-1.jpg

Here is a sample picture of the original legacy BD door to help refer to

https://sl-i.net/FORUM/images/imported/2010/03/Doorcardcloth-1.jpg

[legacy22]

how bout both! lol excuse the crappy paint drawing it still took me like 15 min to do lol.
https://sl-i.net/FORUM/images/imported/2010/04/Doorcardcloth-1.jpg