I’ve just finished gluing the Alcantara onto the foam. I’m relatively pleased with the result but there are a few areas that aren’t as good as I would have liked.
You can see a slight wrinkle here. The pictures make it look a lot worse than it is.
And the other issue is that I couldn’t pull the Alcantara tight enough over the length of the card meaning that by the time I had reached the rear the Alcantara had fallen short of lining up at the rear light hole by about 2mm. I’m hoping I’ve just about got away with it but if you look you can see that it doesn’t tuck nicely under the light fitting. And again there is a little wrinkle in the corner.
As a learning point I would recommend that you don’t attempt this by yourself, a second person would have been able to hold the Alcantara up at one end as you work tighten and push down as required.
I also decided to remove the carpet underlay and replace with the laminate underlay. I had hoped that the 10mm underlay would work but it was just too thick.
