What are interior body panels made of?
What are interior body panels made of?
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What are interior body panels on a 2006 Jeep Grand Cherokee made of? ABS? I cracked one lately and want to try and repair it.
Thank you,
Rick
Thank you,
Rick





RE: What are interior body panels made of?
RE: What are interior body panels made of?
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Pat
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RE: What are interior body panels made of?
Again, I'm trying to repair a crack that has developed in the panel and want to know what it's made of so I can select the correct glue/adhesive to use.
Thank you. I really appreciate the help.
Rick
RE: What are interior body panels made of?
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Thanks again to both of you and have a wonderful Thanksgiving.
Rick
RE: What are interior body panels made of?
If the adhesives don't work as you want you might try locating a place performing plastic welding.
Local phone book , car clubs etc are usually good sources.
This can be done to appear virtually undetectable from the inside of the vehicle.
Good luck , Peter.
RE: What are interior body panels made of?
3M also make some excellent double sided tapes for plastics like PTFE, PE and PP, but they will only work if you laminate to a backing piece.
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RE: What are interior body panels made of?
I'd experiment with glues, epoxy or contact adhesive would be my first choice.
A wrecker's yard, spare part counter or ebay sounds like a much better bet.
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RE: What are interior body panels made of?
Epoxy has virtually zero adhesion to PP and any bond will be entirely mechanical and as PP is soft, small undercuts like from sanding or scuffing up don't help much. You actually need machined undercuts with substantial deflection or compression required to separate. Things like holes drilled through and countersunk from the other side or if it's thick enough holes drilled and tapped to a coarse thread form.
The reason we use old plastic ice cream packets to mix our epoxy is the fact they are PP and can easily be cleaned for reuse as the epoxy just flicks off when set.
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RE: What are interior body panels made of?
That was the method of preparing polypropylene bumpers for painting so the paint did not fall off on the first bump. It only really started to work well when the PP also contained significant amounts of other substances that did bond to paint, like some elastomers do. They also increased cold impact strength and reduced mould shrinkage and consequential warping which is the main reason they look and fit so much better than 20 to 30 years ago.
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