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Lotus Europa Forums => Garage => Topic started by: kram350kram on Thursday,April 14, 2022, 08:02:47 PM
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Thinking off making some stainless steel plates to protect the door sills. Anyone have pictures of what they have purchased or built? Thanks
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Good idea. I just used clear, plastic film like they use on the fronts of cars to protect against rock chips
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If you're thinking of the door shut section, the bit you sometimes catch when getting in or out, then I've seen aluminium ones in the past. The trouble is that now I can't remember where !
Over here there's a healthy market for such things in stainless steel, usually etched with the car model/make. For example;
https://unqshop.com/LOTUS.ESPRIT (https://unqshop.com/LOTUS.ESPRIT)
The Europa market is probably too small for them to bother making a pattern but it might be worth looking to see if you could get plain ones because they're not that expensive to buy. I doubt I could make a set for significantly less than the dealer above charges.
But I'm like John, I use vinyl on the internal sills. The car originally came with black vinyl there and I've just replaced it as & when needed.
Brian
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If you are interested in vinyl decals...
https://www.isaydingdong.co.uk/shop/search.php?q=lotus+door+sill&searchbutton=Search
The have them in gold JPS also.