Right, this is a ***** of a job - I did mine pre-respray
You need to remove the locking pin, thats the metal pin attached to the white plastic, bottom left of your piccy. A screw driver will help you remove it.
There are two bolts, located right and left of the handle, you'll need to take these out.
Once thats done, the handle should come away from the car, but be careful, it'll still be attached by the threaded bar.
You need to remove the handle from the outside, and then rotate it to move it off the thread.
BE VERY CAREFUL as it'll be rotating very close to your paint.
Thanks Dave. I will give it a go in the morning. I'm in the process of respraying my car, and the handles and the weather strips on the outside of the door are the last thing to come off now.
Any advice on taking the weather strips off? Door cards and mirrors are already off.
tape off your door with a couple layers of that blue tape stuff to keep from scratching your paint. Should be easy to do now that you have it out that far
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Originally posted by CDR_UK Any advice on taking the weather strips off? Door cards and mirrors are already off.
just pull up. Make sure you replace the clips or they will see the buldge when you reinstall it.
The weather strips are easy enough to get off when you know how:
1) Wind the window all the way down
2) Look at the edge of where the window normally is (rear car side), you'll see a black plastic strip - you need to remove this (to expose the guide rail), it'll probably be stuck on with some lame glue.
3) Once its off you'll see 4 screws, remove them
4) The guide rail should now be loose and you should be able to remove it, pull it towards you and life up.
5) Wind the window up a little, about 2-3"
6) inside the car, there are 2x holes that will allow you to fit a socket in, if you look through them you'll see two bolts holding the glass inplace. Use the socket and remove them
7) You can now lift the glass off the bottom rail and place it inside door.
8) You should now be able to access all the plastic clips that hold the weather strip in place - there are 6 per strip.
9) Using a flat headed screw driver, prise the clips and break them, you need to snap the center part.
10) When you have snapped them all, you can lift the strip out, again from the rear.
Clips will cost you about £14 for the lot, you'll need 6 / side.
- Take off the door cover on the inside.
- Peel back the plastic cover by the handle area.
- Peel off the small oval plastic cover(black on mine) which hides an acces hole.
- Use a 10mm socket to undo the two bolts (left and right of the handle) holding the handle in place.
- Cover the outsid eof the door around the handle area with some protective tape.
- Push the handle out.
You should be at the same stage as in the picture. Then do what ds2000 says - works a treat.
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