How do you remove the door panels?

[alerojunkie]

Could someone post a step by step on how to remove the door panels.

[Final-Reality]

Somebody already did

http://invision.aleromod.com/index.php?showtopic=23

Unless you mean the exterior of the door, then no, I don't know how :huh:

[alerojunkie]

That doesn't tell you how to take off the door panels. Voodoosoup mentioned that at the beginning of his thread.

[boarder211]

Let's see if I can remember this from when I took off my panels to put in my 4x6's... :) Sorry, but no pics this time.

First off, grab a small flat-headed screw driver. There's two places you need to go to work on. First off, is the little clip under the door handle... there's 2 screws in there if memory serves me correctly... remove them. Once they're done, remove the reflector on the inside of the door. There's a 2nd screw inside of there. Remove that.

Now, work on pulling away a corner of the panel. I started with the corner nearest to the reflector... you have to pull it pretty hard, because it's being held on by a bunch of plastic clips... these freaking things look like christmas trees, and will catch as you move the paneling further out. Oh yeah... I'm assuming that you shouldn't do it when your car is cool (like below freezing cool), because these little things will probably snap pretty easily.

As you pull the panel farther away, you have to be able to reach up and disconnect the wires from the control panels... just fiddle around on them for a bit to find the clips that hold them on. This is the most annoying part IMO. Once they're off, pull away the rest of the panel and volia! It's done.

Hope that that answers your questions... if you have more, just PM me and I'll do my best to answer them. :)

[alerojunkie]

My only other question is what do i do if i dont have power windows? Does the handle have to come off before you take the door panel off or does it just come off when you take off the door panel? Im planning on putting in 6.5 components and I just wanted to be able to estimate how much time im going to have to put into this.

[boarder211]

Hey man... all you have to do is take a towel, run it behind the window handel, and give it a consistent pull. That should pop it out. I happen to have power windows, but I believe that I've heard that recommended before.

[Aleromaster]

there is a tool to remove window handles. It real cheap only a coupe of dollars. There is basicly a small clip in the handle that catches a groove on the shaft for the window. You just slide the tool behind the crank and push. It releases the clip than the handle just slides off. I did that whole towel thing once before on my first olds and ended up breaking the handle so its worth the few dollars to buy the right tool.

[Silentalero]

yea i just ripped off my doors today so ill take some pics for ya

[alerojunkie]

yeah those pics would be appreciated silent. thanks everyone, i just have to figure out how to do this and remove the rear deck so i can put in my new infinity kappas.

[Silentalero]

Ok here is the tool you will need to buy to remove the manual handles

[Silentalero]

heres how the handle looks from the inside so you get an idea of what you gotta get


the pin is on the handle and there is an extra on next to it so you see how it sits in there