Okay....so I am sick of our door panels...they're uglier than crap compared to just about every other car. I had this idea while putting in door speakers into a 2001 Grand Am tonight at work (I'm an installer at Best Buy). Since Alero's and Grand Am's have the SAME doors (handles, locks, and all) as far as the structure goes....shouldn't the door panel of a Grand Am fit right up to the Alero door? I know the switch panels are all different and I havn't paid attention to the actual plugs to see if those are the same but if I had to re-wire something, that's not a problem...that's all I do is work with wiring. By the looks of things though....everything should line up fine. If I can get my hands on some decently priced door panels of a Grand Am...I just might do this. I can't stand the 2 tone tan/gray Alero interior...I want all gray/black. I have a couple friends that have Grand Am GT's and they said they'd let me borrow a door panel to test fit it to see if I wanted. If this doesn't work I will probably just use some Vinyl Dye to dye my doors gray/black. At least they wont be tan..yuck. Oh yea, also the running boards/kick panels are dark gray in the Grand Am's and those are IDENTICAL to the tan ones in the Alero so I will be swapping those out from a GA also.

the thing is that you'll need to swap out dash board if ya swap out the door panels. wiring should be the same, you'll need to swap out the inner door handle too.. thats it. it should be a direct swap.

why would I have to swap dashes too?....granted it'd look awesome...but that'd be too much of a PITA. And yea...I knew about the handles as well.

for the contour lines, your door panel will have gaps cuz the grand am dash comes out in the driver side, while the aleros goes straigh smooth down.

Adam,

Start calling some junk yards.....get the full thing....door panels and dash.....

At first I though you ment the outside which isn't a good idea, but after reading, really really cool idea :thumb:

why not just buy a grand am

you're nuts if you think the grand am interior looks better than the alero's. grand am's are f***in ugly. alero's are nice and smooth.

agree

another reason i didnt get a GA was because the interior looked cheezy, the aleros got more of a classy interior.

don't even comment if that's all you're going to say....that's so ignorant.

olds has always been known for class the grand ams are just basic, but the red circle grand am gauges would be cool

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roger that

I don't know about the lines.....they are VERY similar if you look at the 2 doors........

arent all alero dashes and door panels the same color tan and gray which i like because my car is black

I agree the alero's are more classy...but I want a sportier look and I don't think the GA's look "cheesy" or "basic" at all....there's a LOT more to the GA interior than the Alero's....i think the Alero's interior is more basic by far

Yea....they are 2-tone...which I DONT like so instead of painting everything I think I'll try for a more custom look and go w/ GA doors cuz I think they're more sporty and better looking....


and for the record...I'm not arguing with anyone...these are just MY opinions...

they dont fit with our dash

I don't wanna do the dash too because then I have to get gauge cluster/center consol/and a whole lotta other stuff that I dont want. I DO like the center consol of the Alero better..that's for sure.

Have you tried?...I am asking because I'd rather know now than spend ass loads of time just to find out it wont work....