Jaguar X Type Car Door Card Repair with Polymorph
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 มี.ค. 2016
- X-Types are known for their door cards breaking and rattling. This is a quick and easy way of repairing them using Polymorph plastic. Six years later in Jan 2022 the fixings are all still solid.
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My son and I changed out all front and rear speakers today on our 2004 X-Type 3.0 and used your technique on several of the mounting bases just like your issue described. This polymorph material is a game changer. Thank you so much for us to now have quiet and solid feeling door panels.
Excellent. Polymorph is amazing. I have used it on dozens of repair projects as well as model making.
Much appreciate your selection of repair topics here on TH-cam. I have used your guidance on several X-Type projects, all with success.
Thanks. That is exactly what they are for. I am pleased they are helpful.
Blimey, I think you've read my mind for future projects on my car. Your video gives me clues as to where the card fasteners are located. I need to lubricate my door handles as they are all becoming unreliable when opening the doors. It's supposed to be a common problem on X-types. Thanks for uploading this.
Great idea to use that polymorph material, never hear of it until now. My drivers door card has been a bit loose for year and feared taking it off and not being able to fix it, so now I know the mounts on these are naff and break off easily I'll form a plan :-)
Once you buy some you will be hooked.
It's not often you come across such a relvelatory piece of help, two thumbs way up for this lovely little nugget, I have all four door cards flapping and it makes it look cheap instead of classy, a big thank you for the post.
Glad to be of help. Polymorph is fantastic.
Thanks for the very useful info about PolyMorph, if I can acquire some I will be always glad I watched your vid. Many thanks from Bonnie Dundee, Ronnie.
Thanks - there are loads of vendors on ebay and its cheap.
This was a great video after watching you i went onto ebay and bought some, i repaired 2 x type doors same way and worked perfectly i just hope it can take Florida hot weather Thanks again great idea
Give us an update after a few months use.
jobs a good one for the last 3 yrs had the doors sounding like its a van lol nice to have a solid door again both sides i must say your tops m8 thank you for all the tuts you do for us x type owners :)
Thanks for the polymorph stuff, and the door panel tutorial! I've just done Exactly the same repair on my jag. Bloody marvellous cheap and extremely cheerful DIY fix! No more ratttttttles.............................
Its a brilliant material. I lost count of all the things I have fixed with it.
Very informative videos mate. Thinking of getting a 3.0 V6 with LPG conversion and am really enjoyimg your how to videos.
Thanks. If you do buy it make a video on how it works. I've never seen an LPG system in a Jag.
Great idea. DYI stereo installation must know how. Thanks!!!
Interesting repair! Thanks!
thanks for sharing!
18 months later and not a rattle to be heard.
Brilliant! Thank you!
very good video !!! i used durostick d 90 and it had the same effects !! thanks !
That's a kind of superglue. What do you do if the mounts are broken off and missing though?
a massive thank you for the info both my front ones need doing so just orderd a door card removal tool and POLYMORPH Mouldable Plastic Pellets :)
It's now lasted well over two years.
Excellent 5***** that has made my day so glad I veiwed this video :) thank you A++++++
Glad you enjoyed it!
Good Job great tips
(thank, you for you're helpful video.)👍
Please remember: polymorphic plastic turns back into goo at about 150 F/65 C. You luckily shouldn't have an issue in with it in the UK, but if you're in hotter climates, the temperature inside if left in the sun can get to 130-140 F when it gets in the 90s. I would imagine the inside of the door gets as hot if not hotter.
The melting point of the granules is 65 degrees C. When the stuff has solidified into a block you need to heat it up to about 90 degrees C to soften it right through. I would have thought at that temperature all the mastics on the car would melt! If the door panels are not pulled off there is no reason for the new mounts to deform even when really hot. Even the hottest places on earth don't get above 70 degrees C and that is the surface reading - maximum air readings seldom get above 45 degrees C.
I have a silver one with black interior. Left in the sun at 40 C, you cannot touch the inside door handles. you have to leave the car at least a couple of minutes to run with airon at full before you get in. i am sure it can easily reach 90 c on the top of that door card. I will try though.
It will be interesting to see what happens. Perhaps you can post your findings. It seems to me that unless you try to pull off the door panels at 90 C nothing will happen.
3m window weld works too
My X has the same problem, and this seems a very good solution. I'll try it.
This is a good permanent way to fix the problems. I took the panel off a few weeks ago and all the fixings were still good. In fact I broke one and simply repaired it by heating it up with a hot gun. They have lasted over 3 years now.
@@johnnysevengun That's great, a lasting solution. I don't mind repairing something, but repairing the same part over and over again is annoying. I already ordered the polymorph plastic. As soon as I have received it, I will give it a go. Thanks for your video and so for the inspiration.
@@johnnysevengun It worked, fixed my door card with it, now it fits like new. From the rest of the plastic balls I can repair the center arm rest of my girlfriend's car and many other things. Great stuff that polymorph!
Beautiful. I have the same problem which I'm looking forward to solve withyour idea.
It is very easy and permanent. Still no rattles and it has been freezing here.
well so far so good got the busted clips back on with the new plastic just wating on them to harden to refit the door cards ........ up side i found it easyer for my self to do them in the house
BTW just be carefull theres boling water in the plastic after you take it out of the cup and start moulding it to shape dam hot LoL
Shit! My door was rattling at the top and I partly pulled back the panel this evening and found the bit of plastic that had broken off, and I superglued it. I didn't know that it's not going to stick!
I'll be in for a disappointment in the morning when I go and check it, but at least I know now so the disappointment won't be so bad, and I can sleep on some alternate plans.
I'm a big fan of plastic welding with a soldering iron so might give that a shot if I don't get some of this polymorph stuff on eBay.
But I might just get some anyway, it looks like great stuff.. Thanks!
Update:
So superglue worked just fine for me. But I don't know how long it will last. My guess is that it will be fine until I try to disassemble the door again, and then the glue/plastic will break before the clips.
Update 2:
Superglue didn't last very long!
Polymorph and a new pack of clips finally arrived from China so I went at the car today. Polymorph worked a treat but the clips were inferior quality. They just wouldn't hold, and the door card kept popping back out.
The clips were the same size as the old ones, but it looked like the grooves weren't deep enough so I went around them with a junior hacksaw to deepen them, and then went around them with a knife to clean out the grooves, especially the two lower grooves, and then the door car stayed in afterwards.
The great thing about polymorph is that it goes solid but is still flexible. You can remelt it and use it again. So far it has lasted about five years and I have had the doors off lots of times.
@@johnnysevengun Just ordered 100g there from China for about 3 quid. Grand job!
I also have a few clips for the door on the way from China, as a few of them are broken too. I tried plastic welding little tops on to them, but the size has to be really exact and I just wasn't precise enough with them and they just broke again. But they were the lower clips so it's not too bad.
The superglue is holding the top clip, and the door screws are holding the bottom so it'll be fine for a few weeks until the polymorph and the clips arrive.
I need some of this too, I have been looking on Ebay, so many different sizes of polymorph. What size would I need to do 3 clips like you have done? 50g 100g 500g packets I have seen. Cheers
100g will easily be enough. But you will soon find you want more to do other jobs!
ive just done 4 had a bag of 250G and still have half a bag left
Will the polymorph not soften on a summers day as it can get beyond 65deg internally?
I had this conversation before with Mackerous Creel and I think it is very unlikely. The softer mastics would melt before the Polymorph. There's a few people in hot countries checking it out. The hottest its been in my car is 48C and the panels are still solid as the day I fixed them. I was more concerned about them shrinking in the cold but they haven't.
That stuff looks good. For the badly damaged ones did you think of weldind some new plastic in with a soldering iron. Just a thought
I have tried that before but the plastic melts and goes black and is very toxic. It is so much quicker with Polymorph and if you mess it up you can just melt it back without burning. Lasted nearly four years now.
I've only recently bought my first x-type, I've had a facelift 2008 model 2.0 turbo diesel and I absolutely love it, but I just wanted to ask if you still have yours, purely curiosity, and also thank you for your videos as they have been great helping me fix and tidy a couple of things, and this was one of them, although luckily I only had a single mounting broken on the drivers door top corner
Thanks. I gave the Jag to my Dad who lives next door so I still get to drive and fix it. Not long ago I did a video about replacing the door mirror and was pleased to see the polymorph repairs were still good 4 years later.
@@johnnysevengun Thats really good to know, glad you have a chance to still get a drive after all the maintenance you have put in on it ;-)
@@applemad I burn it around the back roads every now and then.
@@johnnysevengun good to hear ;-)
Hi great content has you door lights ever worked as mine don't seem to
If you mean the puddle lights they aren't fitted on my basic model but the red reflectors are there.
How easy is maintaining de xtype yourself, I’m in to get one with decent mileage and want to try it myself to keep the kost low!
I think in general it is easy. I have made all these videos using basic tools, a couple of trolley jacks and no experience of this car. The hardest part is freeing off seized parts. I use a kitchen carameliser to burn off rust and ease stuck fixings.
Neat. Haven't seen that stuff used on a car before. How's it holding up?
+Mark J. Mantilla . After 5 weeks there's no ratting at all so I think it is pretty permanent. I built some seat mounts for my cafe racer over a year ago and they have remained solid. The best thing is that if they loosen you can just reheat them with hot water or an air gun and remould them. The doorcards are made of thermosetting plastic so you would have to literally burn them with a soldering iron to alter them, the polymorph can be handled easily.
Got myself another X-Type and found your videos all over again. Funny to see my comment!
Im doing this soon.... How do you know where to put the pins when the plastic moding has disintegrated? Is there a picture of this in the Jaguar workbook?
I looked at the ones that were not broken and worked out where the pop fasteners sit. The manual does not give close detail.
@@johnnysevengun I assume this plastic mold has held up over time?
@@janetoss Yes they are all still solid. I added a few more when I took the panels off to fix the doorlocks and change the passenger side door. Look at the complete settings to estimate the position but it is in the middle of each square block.
Such a great idea! Thanks
Love my X Type but seriously the door card clip design gets the award as the WORST design ever on any car I've had.
I've owned over 30 different cars and the X Type gets the crown as the WORST door trim design hands down.
Apart from that I love it but yeah its such a terrible design!!
No sugar in mine ta!