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DISCUSSION => General Topics => Topic started by: P. Kennedy on October 02, 2007, 09:32:50 AM

Title: Interior door sill removal
Post by: P. Kennedy on October 02, 2007, 09:32:50 AM

Any secrets to removing the door sills (the inside curved ones) without breaking them?  The passenger side one on my car are already broken, and I was trying to remove them to run some stereo wires without breaking them further.

Title: Interior door sill removal
Post by: ak96ss on October 02, 2007, 09:40:53 AM

Use a trim removal tool and pry up from underneath as close to the pin as you can get. I've had my trim off repeatedly and, although I have broken clips, I haven't broken the trim piece itself yet.

Title: Interior door sill removal
Post by: P. Kennedy on October 02, 2007, 11:40:03 AM

Thanks, John in MD.  You're quite the wealth of knowledge and experience.

Pat in WI

Title: Interior door sill removal
Post by: ak96ss on October 02, 2007, 12:30:27 PM

I've had my darned car apart so many times to do stuff, I can't remember what it was like to just drive the thing...  :)

Parting a car out helps a great deal, too - you really learn where everything is and how it connects to everything else.

Title: Interior door sill removal
Post by: D. Clay on October 02, 2007, 01:04:47 PM

Two corollaries to Murphy's Law:
1) once you break something in disassembly you realize the correct way to do it.
2) by the time you need to do it again you have usually forgotten it.
I broke mine!