While pulling out my stereo to add a much-needed subwoofer, I scratched the spring-loaded door to the little compartment between the A/C and ashtray. And by "scratched" I mean a lot of 'em.

The dealership says a new one--I guess the whole thing--would cost over $200 to replace. (Yeah, where do I sign?!)

For now I have painted it black. Not the most creative solution, but whatever.

Has anyone else "modded out" this door? Give me some ideas if you can. I'm a perfectionist, so I could not just keep it with the scratches showing. Small price to pay for getting decent sound, I guess.

 

paint it, or find some material you like and cover it with that??
find a 'bead-dazzler' and glue gems/rhinestones to it?? lol j/k

i have mine covered with a piece of black suede... now i just need to do the rest of the dash to match

 

If you sand out the scratches and paint it flat black it would probably be as good as new.

 

Read this post on painting interior parts:

https://www.scionlife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6891

I would also imagine you could pick up the door from a junk yard..........

 

I just did the same thing to mine this weekend while putting my Sirius tuner in the little compartment. Is there anybody online that just sells the door?

 

https://www.scionlife.com/forums/vie...618&highlight=

 

As I was surfing through here earlier tonight I saw a mod done on the oven door....it looked nice..but for the life of me cannot remember who did it or where it was posted. To make a long story short..I think he did basically the same thing you did...so he got out his dremel..cut the bad parts out and made a scion logo...he also put some lights in the oven so when lit up...it looked pretty sharp...

 

Cutom oven door how-to:
https://www.scionlife.com/forums/vie...highlight=oven