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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Drives: 2013 1SS 1LE Black - Std Exhaust Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Brunswick, GA
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Doors
My 1993 Z/28 and my 2001 WS-6 both featured a composite door. I was curious what the 2013 Camaro doors are made off. Our 1LE should be here in a week or so, and I just struck me I had never noticed.
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Location: Turd Town, WI
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Sheet metal. They tell what gauge on Ultimate Factories: Camaro. Google or youtube it. They show them pressing two at a time.
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Thanks. The composite door was great at preventing door dinks, but the drivers door on the WS-6, which I get rid of Wednesday night, is broken at one of the points where it is glued / fused together. Pros and cons with everything.
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At some point, they will probably be aluminum. The process is still being perfected. But that won't help with door dings...just weight.
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Our hoods are aluminum. I was surprised at how light it was when I replaced it. Would be nice if they started making other parts like trunks and doors out of it, or at least plastic like the old Saturns were.
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That Ssturn composite material is what the doors and front fenders on the gen 4s were made of.
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I thought I read the hood AND trunk were aluminum already.
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You can use a magnet to check.
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