Car Door Magnets Cost: Pair Prices Across Five Sizes

Which Car Door Magnet Size Fits the Door?

The 18 x 12 in, the 24 x 12 in, and the 24 x 18 in are door magnets. The 24 x 18 in is the largest of the five that fits inside a front door. The 42 x 12 in is a long strip for the cargo side panel, too wide for the door. The 72 x 24 in XL spans most of that cargo panel on a van, box truck, or trailer.

Pick the size from the flat panel you actually have, not from the biggest number on the list. A front door on a sedan and a front door on a cargo van are not the same panel. Measure the flat area under the window and beside the handle before you choose. If the flat area is shorter than 24 inches, the 18 x 12 in is the door size. If you need the message to run along the cargo panel, use the 42 x 12 in or the 72 x 24 in, not a door size stretched sideways.

These five sizes are rectangles only. A leaf, a mascot, or the outline of a logo is a custom magnet, cut to the shape of the art rather than to a box. That is a different product, with its own prices.

Should You Buy One Magnet or a Matched Pair?

Buy one magnet when you are branding one side of a personal car, or when only one panel on the vehicle has room for it. Buy a pair when both front doors, or both cargo panels, are the same size and both should carry the same art. A matched pair is two magnets of one size, so the left door and the right door read as a set.

The page lets you order a single magnet or a pair, and the quantity control goes on to more than one pair for a fleet. The prices above are one magnet and one pair. If you need two pairs or more, set that quantity on the product page and read the total there, because this table does not price a fleet line.

Count panels before you count magnets. Two front doors that both have room for the same size are one pair. A spare magnet for a second vehicle is another single, or another pair, of the size that vehicle can hold.

Where Does a Car Door Magnet Go on the Vehicle?

A vehicle magnet goes on the flat part of a door or a cargo panel. It is heavy-duty 30 mil magnetic vinyl, the thick stock these magnets are printed on, and the catalog describes it as easy on and easy off for cars and trucks, with no damage to your vehicle. The same stock holds flat on a truck door, a trailer, a filing cabinet, or a refrigerator.

The product page shows every one of the five sizes as a true-scale drawing against a full size cargo van. The 18 x 12 in, the 24 x 12 in, and the 24 x 18 in sit on the front door, below the window and beside the handle. The 42 x 12 in sits on the cargo side panel as a long strip, too wide for the door. The 72 x 24 in XL spans most of that cargo panel. Look at those drawings before you pick a size, because they show how much of the panel each size covers.

The panel has to give the magnet a flat place to sit under its whole face. If the only open area is smaller than the magnet, step down a size. Do not order the 24 x 18 in and plan to "make it fit" over the handle.

How Do You Put a Car Door Magnet On and Take It Off?

Set the magnet on the panel and press it flat. Peel it off from a corner when you want it off. These are easy on and easy off, and the catalog says they come off with no damage to your vehicle. You apply them. We print them and ship them. The order is the printed magnets, not an install visit.

Rounded corners are the better choice on a vehicle that drives the highway, because rounded corners resist lift at highway speed. The product page marks rounded corners as the recommended choice for that reason. Square corners cost less and are the price default, the right pick when the magnet sits on a vehicle that does not see that wind. The corner choice is per order, so a pair is either square or rounded, not one of each, unless you place two separate single orders.

What File Should You Send for a Car Door Magnet?

Send the original logo, a PDF, or the image you already have through AI image to print. For $14.99 once per item we make the file print ready, including size, bleed, resolution, and color, and we send a free digital proof with every order before anything is printed. If you would rather we build the layout, Design it for me adds $29.99 and includes two revisions. That add-on is free when the item is $499 or more.

Build the art at the finished size you are ordering. A 24 x 12 in magnet is a wide, short rectangle, about twice as wide as it is tall. A layout designed as a square will leave empty ends or will crop the phone number. Put the business name and one phone number in the middle of that wide band. A street address, a list of services, and a paragraph will not read from a lane away.

Keep type and the logo out of the outer edge, and farther in if you order rounded corners, because the corner is cut away. A phone number that ends in the corner on a square-corner proof will lose its last digit when you switch to rounded. On the proof, read the phone number out loud and check the spelling of the name. That is the approval. Production starts after you approve, not when you upload.

What Do We See on Car Door Magnet Proofs?

The miss we see is a 24 x 18 in layout whose phone number or logo sits where the door handle will be. The 24 x 18 in is the largest size that fits inside a door, and only when that door has a flat panel that big. Art that runs into the handle will not lie flat.

If the flat part of the door is shorter than 24 x 18 in, step down to 24 x 12 in or 18 x 12 in and keep the type in the flat middle. Use 42 x 12 in or 72 x 24 in only on the cargo panel. The size drawings show that panel as a different part of the van from the front door. A proof can look perfect as a rectangle on a screen and still be the wrong size for the metal.

Square corners are what the price opens on. If the vehicle drives the highway, switch the proof to rounded corners before you approve it, and look again at anything near the corners. A digit that sits in the corner of the square proof gets clipped when the corner is rounded.

How Long Does a Car Door Magnet Take to Arrive?

Production is 48 hours after artwork approval. The clock starts when you approve the proof, not when you place the order and not when you upload a rough file. Shipping after that is a flat $10 to any US address. The 48 hours are production time. They are not a promise about the day the box arrives, so leave room for transit if the magnets have to be on the doors for a specific morning.

Measure the flat part of the door before you approve the size. A 24 x 12 in pair is the usual door order, at $128.39 with square corners or $149.79 with rounded corners.