It was bound to happen sooner or later, but something has broken on my car. In this case it was the cheap felt covered cardboard panel in the trunk. I was shuttling my old turbo and manifold in the back and while it was padded pretty well, I think the weight was too much for the cheap panel and it tore out of one of the holes and now sits at a really ugly angle. Do people usually take these panels out, replace them with anything (If I was better at laying CF, I'd redo them with it), or just deal with them being messed up?

Wrong forum, sorry, this should have gone into interior. I chalk this up to n00bage and I cannot delete it.

 

Thanks for the move, whoever did it. I'll pay more attention, I swear.

 

Can you take a picture of the broken piece in your trunk?

 

Its the felt piece right next to the center plastic piece on the aft-most part of the trunk. Because it won't stay in place now, there's a gap. I've been considering either trying to lay epoxy on the felt piece around the hole to give it some strength and rebuild it, but I know it, or the other connections will pull out if anything remotely heavy lays against the panels again.

I was just curious if other people had any solutions to this. I considered laying out a trunk cover in either CF or Kevlar (we have a composite shop at work) but that'd be an awful lot of work, if it's pretty common just to tear that cheap stuff out and go commando as it were.

 

I would just somehow strengthen that hole so you can mount it again and be done with it. In the future when you carry heavy items just try to take a bit more care with them. You could also pick up a cargo net for your car - just buy one off of www.subaruwrxparts.com. The one from the 93-01 RS will work in any WRX sedan .

http://www.subaruwrxparts.com/04wrx-interior.html

 

Thanks for the heads up!

My integra had the rear floorboard removed and glassed in with wood for a speaker system, which got yanked out when I started AutoX with it, so I was sort of used to throwing carparts in the back and not worrying about them knocking the panels off.

While I'm happy with the rest of the car, I sort of wish they'd spent the extra two pounds in weight and made the panels out of a durable plastic.

 

Have it sprayed with Rhino bedliner?