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Plastic welded/soldered interior parts?
« on: December 20, 2014, 11:01:32 pm »
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I need to replace the grab handle section behind the door card (10) and its plastic weldered/soldered to the door card. Anyone have any experience with swapping out such parts? Anyone know if VW do a repair kit as such? I could just glue it but wanna stay OEM if poss!


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Re: Plastic welded/soldered interior parts?
« Reply #1 on: December 26, 2014, 04:29:52 pm »
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Re: Plastic welded/soldered interior parts?
« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2015, 08:53:01 pm »
Any VW Technicians on here??

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Re: Plastic welded/soldered interior parts?
« Reply #3 on: January 25, 2015, 08:56:16 pm »
In the past i've had good results using expoxy resin (can't remember which) but had to leave it 24 hours to cure.
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Plastic welded/soldered interior parts?
« Reply #4 on: January 25, 2015, 09:15:25 pm »
Yea I've been told this by someone else too but being an anal sod I wanted to try n go down the oem route! Ta for your advise though!

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Re: Plastic welded/soldered interior parts?
« Reply #5 on: January 25, 2015, 09:23:41 pm »
In my case it was @10 which needed repairing so seeing as it's not visible i adopted the cheap ass approach  :grin:
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