Hey CL,

I did a quick search on this and couldn't find anything, I was wondering if anyone has ever made they own rear deck to replace the crap Lexus compressed paper one ? As everyone knows after years of sun the rears decks love to disintegrate. So I was thinking of maybe building one out of thin plywood and carpeting over that.

Thanks !

 

Fiberglass would probably be your best bet. The stock parcel shelf isn't quite flat, so you need something that can be molded to roughly the same shape. Plywood would be pretty challenging.

 

Had mine done by proff. upholsterer.

 

Fiber glassed the factory piece after we cut the opening for the port on the sub enclosure. Very sturdy now.


Shane

 

yea just lay fiberglass over it, don't even bother building a new one unless you got skiilllzzzz

 

Is that a rear seat delete?? Post more pictures please

 

look familiar? lol dont look at your stock one too hard or else this happens

started with a kind of ok stock piece




i stapled the speaker ring in place




laid a piece of fleece over it and stretched it out nice and taught, then used resin to harden it, added some body filler to smooth it out i didnt know what finish i wanted at this point i guess the body filler and smoothing it out was not really necessary.




decided to carpet after all

 

Thanks guys, this will be my first time using fiberglass. Any tips?

 

get all your stuff ready on hand, the resin gets gooey and stiff pretty quick so plan it all out before you start.

 

Have plenty of acetone on hand for cleaning your brushes, rollers and your hands. Wear goggles; you don't want to risk splashing a drop of MEK hardner in your eyes. There isn't much strength in resin, it's all in the glass fibers so don't over-wet your matting. That's what the rollers are for, squeezing out excess resin and air bubbles.

example of roller: http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=...eo0&ajaxhist=0

 

I've only done a couple of fiberglass projects, but I read quite a bit before embarking on it to get the gist of the process, and I can't say I ever saw recommendations for a roller like that. On my first project, I felt like I ended up with way too much resin, resulting in a pretty heavy piece, and was curious how to control that. I'll definitely have to pick up one of those rollers.

 

holy crap there's rollers!?!? no wonder my fiberglass is so weak lol.

 

^ I guess I'm not the only one who missed the memo.

I've just been brushing the resin on, trying to spread it thin that way. Out of curiosity, do you somehow clean the roller between uses or is it considered disposable? The pictures I've seen don't seem to have any replaceable sleeve like on a paint roller. Knowing how messy fiberglass is, I imagine the sleeve would get bonded to the roller, anyway.

 

thanks guys once again, ill let you know how it goes ill try this one of these weekends.

 

If all else fails you could put a sub box back there.