Door & Dashboard Alumium Trim Strips....

[RedRobin]

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Does anyone know how to remove them, please? Any special tools needed?

I need to remove them for carbon vinyl wrapping and then reinstate them.

Thanks for any help

[v2brett]

iir they are just clipped on, i know the dash ones are and i think the doors are too 

[RedRobin]

^^^^
Cheers.

I've got the ETKA exploded drawings my dealer gave me and it certainly looks that way. The Service Desk didn't know but I know the boss of their bodyshop so he might know.

My concern is not busting them tugging them off whilst not losing any bits down the door internals and being able to fix them back properly and evenly.

[v2brett]

they come off quite easy but can also bend easily, i had mine off a while back to find a rattle.   dont worry if they bend though they straighten back.  and i think it would be hard to lose any clips    all the clips seem lose without the strips though

[jonnyc]

Let me know how you get on Robin then ill give it a go haha..

Jonny

[RedRobin]

Let me know how you get on Robin then ill give it a go haha..

Jonny

....But if you wrap them you'll be adding weight!

[RedRobin]

they come off quite easy but can also bend easily, i had mine off a while back to find a rattle.   dont worry if they bend though they straighten back.  and i think it would be hard to lose any clips    all the clips seem lose without the strips though

....So you can pull them off without removing any door cards etc?

Any tool which is best to use as a lever?

Start in the middle? End?

[You can tell how good I am at such things!]

[jonnyc]

they come off quite easy but can also bend easily, i had mine off a while back to find a rattle.   dont worry if they bend though they straighten back.  and i think it would be hard to lose any clips    all the clips seem lose without the strips though

....So you can pull them off without removing any door cards etc?

Any tool which is best to use as a lever?

Start in the middle? End?

[You can tell how good I am at such things!]

I would say get something reasonably pliable to try and pry them out with, if you use something of a hard material then I can image they would crack or something.. Just depends how well they are clipped down 

[RedRobin]

^^^^
Sounds like a job for a nylon spatula type thingy.

[jonnyc]

^^^^
Sounds like a job for a nylon spatula type thingy.

Yeah one of those thingimyjiggys..

[john_o]

very interested to see how you get on Red 
plan to do mine piano black

[JPC]

oh robin, id swap you my black painted ones! you cant wrap that ally! i want i want!!

[RedRobin]

oh robin, id swap you my black painted ones! you cant wrap that ally! i want i want!!

....Hmm, I'm thinking aloud....How can I help? If you are serious and your 'painted' ones are professionally done so the paint actually stays on the trim!

Would a future buyer of my car want to remove the carbon wrap? I doubt it actually - The car ain't going back to standard - Would you take all your child's toys away from them? - Nooooo!

I'll PM my landline - Give me a call.

[RedRobin]

^^^^
Shame yours is 3-door and mine a 5-door, Jay, otherwise you could have paid me £1,000 and we could have done a straight swop.

Catch ya another time, mate

[JPC]

haha! yep its a shame i couldnt line your pockets that way! ;)

And the best thing for those trim strips, you can get those out with some decent pry tool. i.e Bojo Pry tools

http://www.fine-tools.co.uk/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Session_ID=afa3639b6a9705107a799f21d665321a&Screen=PROD&Product_Code=PP-BJ9SET-DB&Category_Code=043


£30 or so, but they are invaluable to me. you really cant be without these if you want to do "safe" interior work.