After the door cards were fitted I sent the car to Interior Seating at Maunside, Mansfield to have a full leather interior, and the boot carpeted. Overall they did a good job, including creating some Velcro removable panels for the battery cover and for going around the roll bars. One issue that arose is that the door panels that you make, if you follow the AK instructions to the letter will be too big as on top of the door card they will put 5mm foam (collapses to 2mm). So, I recommend, when making your door card cut the wood roughly to the shape of the door. Then with the door closed draw around the fibreglass lip that the door rubber sits on and then trim the door card to this size.
Once you have the rough size chamfer the edge and essentially the door card will sit on top of the door rubber ensuring the door can shut properly. In hindsight, I actually recommend doing this bit before bonding in the door lock wedges so that you can ensure your doors are well aligned prior to getting your interior fitted. 
This is because when the car came back from having the interior fitted the doors didn't close well and it needed some adjustment. Fair play to Interior Seating as I put the card in the post on next day delivery and they returned it to me the day after adjusted as requested.
As you can see its a very nice final result.
One final note is that when you send it off remember to send off any gear stick gaiter chrome rings as the interior doesn't come with it but they will fit it when making the interior if you send it off with the car (otherwise you have to do it yourself)
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