MY door pockets trivia

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Thu Jan 19, 2012 11:33 am

Was looking at a matched pair of grey door pockets for my Brumby and took a while to realise they are not the same, one is L and th other R....you know why ....

just so SUBARU name tag appears at same end on both doors !!

NachaLuva · Post by **NachaLuva** » Thu Jan 19, 2012 1:37 pm

steptoe wrote: just so SUBARU name tag appears at same end on both doors !!

Oh but of course! lol

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Thu Jan 19, 2012 10:22 pm

I've never noticed this - but then again Sunnie has a set of VS commodore door pockets/speaker pods...

Cheers

Bennie

NachaLuva · Post by **NachaLuva** » Thu Jan 19, 2012 11:53 pm

El_Freddo wrote:I've never noticed this - but then again Sunnie has a set of VS commodore door pockets/speaker pods...

Oh no poor Sunnie, had her Subie genes adulterated by a Commondore lol

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 1:39 pm

nachaluva wrote:Oh no poor Sunnie, had her Subie genes adulterated by a Commondore lol

Oi it goes well and fits in with the interior colour! Ruby Scoo has the same in grey on the driver's door, I'm yet to fit the passenger's side.

Cheers

Bennie

RSR 555 · Post by **RSR 555** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 9:25 pm

It's so the 'SUBARU' logo can be seen when the seats are all the way forward

Oh and did you notice that they only ever put the drivers side on the Brumbys but they had the little places marked (inside the panel) so you could use the ones off the coupes

revmax · Post by **revmax** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 9:31 pm

haven't ever seen passenger door pockets on a Brum can you please post a picture.

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Sat Jan 21, 2012 8:23 am

revmax wrote:haven't ever seen passenger door pockets on a Brum can you please post a picture.

Aw, c'mon ...can't you just imagine the pocket on the drivers door of a RHD Brumby on the LHS passengers door ??

The time it takes me to take the pic, get it across to imageshack and up here I could proably install the thing that has been kickin' around for six years when i pulled it from my 84 sedan, no, that was brown inside, where'd I get this from ??

1111giles · Post by **1111giles** » Sat Jan 21, 2012 8:47 am

You would not believe the hassle I went to to get the correct handed LHS door pocket for scoobs !
I was on the verge of fitting (and being cheesed off because of) a second driver door pocket.......when it occured to me that I had GIVEN AWAY (yes you read correctly) a passenger door with a truck I had sold -which I accuired that had been in a salvage yard for yonks - that had come off a GLF Hatch ! And yes it had a 2 cents worth door pocket on it with the subaru name the correct way around !
A few phone calls later and a 250kms dash later and I had the door card with door pocket in my possesion.

Still I suppose oiking half a brumby here all the way from Oz is on balance about similar effort !

I'll shut the door behind me !:???:

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Sat Jan 21, 2012 9:30 am

OK, I started it ...

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you can just make out the embossed SUBARU at opposite ends... i hope

photographers feet clipped from pic of fitted to door card lower

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Some part numbers of the LHS pocket - think different numbers for different colours, more numbers in there too!

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Fifteen minutes !! That's all it took me to walk outside, unlock ute door, walk to shed, select tools (unneccesary winder remover) and a #2 Philips screwdriver, remove arm rest, unpop panel, disconnect speaker, walk to shed, find drill, drill bit, inspect and drill out pre centred holes -in the mould- screw in supplied screws, waste five minutes on misaligned screw hole (angle of the dangle fault) and whack it all back together.

OK, have wasted more time in carrying to shed, store, retrieve (where the fcarthey??), place inside, inspect part numbers, take pics, think about when and how I am gonna do them (it) the RHS is going on the other Brumbies LHS door card - soon.

thanks to revmax for the motorvation

Less stuff hoarded, more room to stash stuff into the ute

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Sat Jan 21, 2012 9:32 am

1111giles wrote: A few phone calls later and a 250kms dash later and I had the door card with door pocket in my possesion.

We have a postal service and numerous courier/freight companies that could have carried it - to save you the drive

FROG · Post by **FROG** » Sat Jan 21, 2012 9:40 am

1111giles wrote:You would not believe the hassle I went to to get the correct handed LHS door pocket for scoobs !
I was on the verge of fitting (and being cheesed off because of) a second driver door pocket.......when it occured to me that I had GIVEN AWAY (yes you read correctly) a passenger door with a truck I had sold -which I accuired that had been in a salvage yard for yonks - that had come off a GLF Hatch ! And yes it had a 2 cents worth door pocket on it with the subaru name the correct way around !
A few phone calls later and a 250kms dash later and I had the door card with door pocket in my possesion.

Still I suppose oiking half a brumby here all the way from Oz is on balance about similar effort !

I'll shut the door behind me !:???:

steptoe wrote:We have a postal service and numerous courier/freight companies that could have carried it - to save you the drive

The sickness is bad with Giles

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Sat Jan 21, 2012 9:47 am

you'd think he'd pop into Griffith to snap up all your new old stock - or did he send a shipping container ?

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Sat Jan 21, 2012 9:48 am

I am yet to see if the holes of a RHS pocket line up nice with the intended holes of LHS door card - caution!

1111giles · Post by **1111giles** » Sat Jan 21, 2012 10:36 am

steptoe wrote:We have a postal service and numerous courier/freight companies that could have carried it - to save you the drive

When you are sick - then you have gotta do what you have gotta do !

SLAMS ! the door as leaves the room...........................................

A courier would not have emptied the rear of the MV truck the door was in - removed .... oh I remember I just hoofed out the spare door and nicked the whole thing and brought that home.......... plus there was an ace butty bar about half way back home too !
There was reason to fetch myself - so it did not get rifled for scrap !

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Sat Jan 21, 2012 10:42 am

Done and dusted - fitted the RHS pocket to LHS door.
Found the centre bottom screw is not central and drilled hole from back of door card as usual but 32mm off from the centre point in the plastic.

Fittd up OK but now shows the handedness from left to right. It is not the usual clean fit we are used to with Subies, pockets are fatter at one end than the other, and there is a curve line that is not quite right but it will suit me and no one will pick it as being wrong side when viewed from almost any angle.

These babies sat around for so.o.o.o long it ain't funny. Also replaced the door card clips with salvaged off L Series, fixed up the arm rest screw base clip made of nylon and then stripped, used a soldering iron and melted in an old door card clip into its centre. happy

better than fitting non genuine stuff

1111giles · Post by **1111giles** » Sat Jan 21, 2012 10:43 am

steptoe wrote:you'd think he'd pop into Griffith to snap up all your new old stock - or did he send a shipping container ?

Its a thought I have mulled over many times.........................

1111giles · Post by **1111giles** » Sat Jan 21, 2012 10:45 am

[quote="steptoe"]Done and dusted -
You mean you got rid of all that red stuff it was coated in ?:mrgreen:

revmax · Post by **revmax** » Sat Jan 21, 2012 12:34 pm

glad to help.

RSR 555 · Post by **RSR 555** » Sat Jan 21, 2012 4:07 pm

revmax wrote:haven't ever seen passenger door pockets on a Brum can you please post a picture.

steptoe wrote:Aw, c'mon ...can't you just imagine the pocket on the drivers door of a RHD Brumby on the LHS passengers door ??

The time it takes me to take the pic, get it across to imageshack and up here I could proably install the thing that has been kickin' around for six years when i pulled it from my 84 sedan, no, that was brown inside, where'd I get this from ??

Sounded like a challenge you couldn't refuse hey Jonno

Good info though and so handy to have that LHS pocket on the other door