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[turboV70]

The material around the door panels on my 98 V70 is peeling away. I've seen this happen to other V70/S70s before so I was hopping theres some one out there who has a solution to my problem. Here's a picture of what i'm dealing with:


Thanks in advance for any adivce

[theunderlord]

yup. common problem. Fix = get new door panels.

seriously. it sucks. Happened to me, I bought new panels off a buddy.

[turboV70]

yea...i kinda figured that was gonna be the case maybe i can try peeling the rest of that crap off and re-upholster it in leather...i think that would be a pretty cool mod

[theunderlord]

yea...i kinda figured that was gonna be the case    maybe i can try peeling the rest of that crap off and re-upholster it in leather...i think that would be a pretty cool mod

it's pretty lame, cause the foam backing is glued to the leather, and when you try and peel the leather back, the backing comes with it. I looked into doing this, and I have 4 panels if you're looking for a practice set.

[Slater]

Man, glad I have an 850. They fixed so many things between the 850 and 70-series - sucks that they created such a nasty new problem!

- Slater

[bocavolvo]

I got quoted about $100 a door to get profesionally re upholstered. They said it was a common problem on just about all the european cars in south fla because of the humidity.

[Serge]

No experience in doing this at all... but perhaps you can make a tiny hole with a syringe and put some 3M adhesive in there. The little hole will allow air to come out so you can push the material down. Worth a try

[theunderlord]

No experience in doing this at all... but perhaps you can make a tiny hole with a syringe and put some 3M adhesive in there.  The little hole will allow air to come out so you can push the material down.  Worth a try

Well... volvo does make a repair kit for it (or they used to) Brett still has his I think? and Serge, the kit is sortof like what you described.