Vinyl covering on FG parts / "A" pillar, most cost effective way or alternitives Options

[ruby914]

Some of you may have seen this "A" pillar with the tweeter boss mounted in my car before. The CF I have is cost prohibitive to reproduce.
I have held off modifying my "A" pillar mold, to include the boss, until I work out a solution for a nice OEM looking vinyl finish.
I saw a pair of Morph's speaker pods at G&R that looked like they were covered with vinyl? They looked great. Is this how Morph is selling them or someone else's nice work?
I picked up this very thin sticky back vinyl shelf paper at HD that actually looks great on flat surfaces. Just a little heat and it will couture but it is hard to control with out wrinkling.
I made a crude picture frame to vacuum the HD vinyl over the part. That helped but It looks likeI will have to make a dedicated vacuum table and frame with some heat souse to get the quality I am looking for. I have seen some 3M vinyl that seems very pricey. I am not sure if that is what the dash recover guys are using? A more proper vinyl may help.

After seeing a, complex shape, thermo formed ABS cover at work the other day I am also considering other options. An ABS with a surface finish on one side would make a nice part but with a cheaper nonOEM look.
I have also seen some kind of over lay patterns that can be put on wheels, dash, grills... This was last seen up at Pomona Auto show.
I was thinking some of you, Morph, may have connections or ideas to produce a hi quality low cost part . Your thoughts...

[ruby914]

PM sent to mark, some "special" 4 way stretch vinyl samples are in the mail and drilled a great big hole in a perfectly good A pillar mold.
The samples coming are not intended for vacuum forming. I just want to see how efficiently it can be applied by hand.
My thinking is this A pillar part would be a very nice addition to the Appearance & Performance 6.5 enclosures for those that want to run component speakers.
It seems something so visible as an A pillar should be as close to OEM look as possible.

I made many 914 part molds in order to reproduce CF parts for myself and possible production for others. Problem is the CF is cost prohibitive to production parts.
With modern re-vinyling dash methods, I don't see much demand for a FG 914 dash, other than the WRX914 dash that is needed for the Suby cluster.
If I can come up with a good cost effective vacuum forming system it would open the door for affordable F/G vinyl covered WRX914 dash, F/G vinyl covered 914 dash and
F/G vinyl covered roll bar pad. I currently have molds for all. I am also seeing a need to make the RH drive dash for the 914 and Suby914 dash conversion.