I just did the install with this kit on a 2024 VB base model. Every video, and especially the kit instructions, leave out tiny details so be prepared to figure things out for yourself. It took me nearly two hours to do the first front door, learning curve and all. I had three more doors to practice on, however, and going clockwise around the car, I finished the driver's door in about a half hour. Rear doors are super easy, less wiring to dick with on the base model. The kit is well made and the holes aligned perfectly providing I started the skin properly. The process is a bit fiddly because you have sticky material, cables, and harnesses that all have to be dealt with simultaneously while aligning holes but by the last door you start to get a good handle on it. The product itself is easy to work with, stick, peel, bend, forgiving. Just be careful with the roller over openings or areas where there's a good gap between the skin and the surface underneath because it's easy to split and punch through. Once the door is covered it's hard to know exactly where the holes and gaps are. The end result is nice, I suppose. The doors feel and sound more solid. On the road there's a noticeable difference in noise coming from the doors, they are much quieter. The audio system is greatly different, which can be a good thing, but in the case of the base model, now I can really hear just how poor the speakers are. Before the skins I was happy enough with the stereo but now feel like I need new speakers. Didn't see that coming. Is the kit worth $329? It's all in the perspective. I don't feel like I got $329 worth of improvement, especially when one considers the cost of time added in. From another perspective, all the pattern work is done and done well. There's no labor and frustration involved with making a pattern yourself and I believe that's where the biggest value in the kit comes from. So in the end, installing this kit will likely cost me a whole lot more than the $329 and the time to install it. Reason being not only am I looking at new speakers, but with the noise of the doors dampened down, I can now hear noise coming from other areas, especially the passenger foot well. So, now I feel like I may have to visit these two issues which means more money and time. A tip I'll share, get yourself a good quality roll of duct tape. I used black to satisfy by OCD but color is irrelevant. As you work with the material there will be areas that split or tear and some other areas where you'll feel like there's a gap or hole. Once the skin is applied and you are about to call it good you can use the tape to patch up these areas. This will help maintain the vapor barrier function of the job. The second tip I'll add I believe is also mentioned in the video above but could use more attention. There's a lot of extra material left in the sheet once you've removed it from the skin. In the video he talks about cutting out the speaker and putting the cut out portion inside the door. Well, you can also take the left over skin material and cut and fit it inside the door, too. And it covers a lot more area than the little hole you cut for the speaker. So, before you skin over the entire door with the die cut pattern, use up the extra material inside the same door. That's getting more of your money's worth from the kit. The last tip I'll share may just be opinion but anyhow, my kit came with a free speaker ring kit. For the VB WRX the rings are practically useless because of how the speaker housing is made. There's already a seal so applying the rings does nothing. The little wave foam pad that comes with the ring kit is practically useless. It's very thin, very small, and is made of a foam that feels like it will probably crumble up in a few years and clog up the drain holes in the door. I still stuck it in the door over bare metal, along with extra skin matting so I hope I don't see little pieces of the foam falling out of the bottom of the door in a few years. Had I to do it again I'd simply toss the ring kits in the trash with the empty skins box. I can't believe they charge $50 for that $5 worth of nothing if you buy it.
I just did the install with this kit on a 2024 VB base model. Every video, and especially the kit instructions, leave out tiny details so be prepared to figure things out for yourself. It took me nearly two hours to do the first front door, learning curve and all. I had three more doors to practice on, however, and going clockwise around the car, I finished the driver's door in about a half hour. Rear doors are super easy, less wiring to dick with on the base model.
The kit is well made and the holes aligned perfectly providing I started the skin properly. The process is a bit fiddly because you have sticky material, cables, and harnesses that all have to be dealt with simultaneously while aligning holes but by the last door you start to get a good handle on it. The product itself is easy to work with, stick, peel, bend, forgiving. Just be careful with the roller over openings or areas where there's a good gap between the skin and the surface underneath because it's easy to split and punch through. Once the door is covered it's hard to know exactly where the holes and gaps are.
The end result is nice, I suppose. The doors feel and sound more solid. On the road there's a noticeable difference in noise coming from the doors, they are much quieter. The audio system is greatly different, which can be a good thing, but in the case of the base model, now I can really hear just how poor the speakers are. Before the skins I was happy enough with the stereo but now feel like I need new speakers. Didn't see that coming.
Is the kit worth $329? It's all in the perspective. I don't feel like I got $329 worth of improvement, especially when one considers the cost of time added in. From another perspective, all the pattern work is done and done well. There's no labor and frustration involved with making a pattern yourself and I believe that's where the biggest value in the kit comes from.
So in the end, installing this kit will likely cost me a whole lot more than the $329 and the time to install it. Reason being not only am I looking at new speakers, but with the noise of the doors dampened down, I can now hear noise coming from other areas, especially the passenger foot well. So, now I feel like I may have to visit these two issues which means more money and time.
A tip I'll share, get yourself a good quality roll of duct tape. I used black to satisfy by OCD but color is irrelevant. As you work with the material there will be areas that split or tear and some other areas where you'll feel like there's a gap or hole. Once the skin is applied and you are about to call it good you can use the tape to patch up these areas. This will help maintain the vapor barrier function of the job.
The second tip I'll add I believe is also mentioned in the video above but could use more attention. There's a lot of extra material left in the sheet once you've removed it from the skin. In the video he talks about cutting out the speaker and putting the cut out portion inside the door. Well, you can also take the left over skin material and cut and fit it inside the door, too. And it covers a lot more area than the little hole you cut for the speaker. So, before you skin over the entire door with the die cut pattern, use up the extra material inside the same door. That's getting more of your money's worth from the kit.
The last tip I'll share may just be opinion but anyhow, my kit came with a free speaker ring kit. For the VB WRX the rings are practically useless because of how the speaker housing is made. There's already a seal so applying the rings does nothing. The little wave foam pad that comes with the ring kit is practically useless. It's very thin, very small, and is made of a foam that feels like it will probably crumble up in a few years and clog up the drain holes in the door. I still stuck it in the door over bare metal, along with extra skin matting so I hope I don't see little pieces of the foam falling out of the bottom of the door in a few years. Had I to do it again I'd simply toss the ring kits in the trash with the empty skins box. I can't believe they charge $50 for that $5 worth of nothing if you buy it.
I need this, rattles way too much for a $40K car…. Is it worth the $300? Isn’t not having a vapor barrier bad?
im wondering the same thing.
why couldnt you just leave the vapor barrier on?
The exact same question I had, and apparently no one is answering...
Does it maybe act as a vapor barrier?
@@pripley The product serves as the new vapor barrier.