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Title: Door & Dashboard Alumium Trim Strips....
Post by: RedRobin on April 16, 2009, 10:36:25 pm
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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 :happy2:
Title: Re: Door & Dashboard Alumium Trim Strips....
Post by: v2brett on April 16, 2009, 10:42:39 pm
iir they are just clipped on, i know the dash ones are and i think the doors are too  :happy2:
Title: Re: Door & Dashboard Alumium Trim Strips....
Post by: RedRobin on April 16, 2009, 10:56:43 pm
^^^^
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.

:happy2:
Title: Re: Door & Dashboard Alumium Trim Strips....
Post by: v2brett on April 16, 2009, 11:03:03 pm
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  :happy2:  all the clips seem lose without the strips though
Title: Re: Door & Dashboard Alumium Trim Strips....
Post by: jonnyc on April 16, 2009, 11:07:18 pm
Let me know how you get on Robin then ill give it a go haha..

Jonny
Title: Re: Door & Dashboard Alumium Trim Strips....
Post by: RedRobin on April 16, 2009, 11:13:44 pm

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! :grin:
Title: Re: Door & Dashboard Alumium Trim Strips....
Post by: RedRobin on April 16, 2009, 11:18:36 pm

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  :happy2:  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!]
Title: Re: Door & Dashboard Alumium Trim Strips....
Post by: jonnyc on April 16, 2009, 11:27:13 pm

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  :happy2:  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  :scared:
Title: Re: Door & Dashboard Alumium Trim Strips....
Post by: RedRobin on April 16, 2009, 11:41:53 pm
^^^^
Sounds like a job for a nylon spatula type thingy.
Title: Re: Door & Dashboard Alumium Trim Strips....
Post by: jonnyc on April 16, 2009, 11:43:14 pm
^^^^
Sounds like a job for a nylon spatula type thingy.

Yeah one of those thingimyjiggys..
Title: Re: Door & Dashboard Alumium Trim Strips....
Post by: john_o on April 17, 2009, 08:20:14 am
very interested to see how you get on Red  :happy2:
plan to do mine piano black
Title: Re: Door & Dashboard Alumium Trim Strips....
Post by: JPC on April 17, 2009, 09:45:43 am
oh robin, id swap you my black painted ones! you cant wrap that ally! i want i want!!
Title: Re: Door & Dashboard Alumium Trim Strips....
Post by: RedRobin on April 17, 2009, 09:56:10 am

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.
Title: Re: Door & Dashboard Alumium Trim Strips....
Post by: RedRobin on April 17, 2009, 10:41:50 am
^^^^
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 :drinking:
Title: Re: Door & Dashboard Alumium Trim Strips....
Post by: JPC on April 17, 2009, 11:05:07 am
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 (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.
Title: Re: Door & Dashboard Alumium Trim Strips....
Post by: RedRobin on April 17, 2009, 12:45:02 pm
^^^^
Thanks for that link, Jay :happy2:

Trouble is, it would cost me £30 for what is probably a once-in-a-lifetime use! That's nearly half of what the trim wrapping will cost me inc vat.
Title: Re: Door & Dashboard Alumium Trim Strips....
Post by: JPC on April 17, 2009, 12:46:55 pm
no worries, for someone like me, who does a lot of interior work, there a fabuolous set to have! ;)
Title: Re: Door & Dashboard Alumium Trim Strips....
Post by: Greeners on April 17, 2009, 01:37:42 pm
VC has taken his off to paint Robin, maybe worth a PM to wake him up!  :wink:
Title: Re: Door & Dashboard Alumium Trim Strips....
Post by: RedRobin on April 17, 2009, 01:44:17 pm

VC has taken his off to paint Robin, maybe worth a PM to wake him up!  :wink:


...Cheers, Nath  :happy2: - Will do.

wigit has PM'd me a whole thread with pics too - Excellent but no time yet to sort it for GTI, trim strip only, consumption yet. Will do so later today hopefully. Off to wash my car.............
Title: Re: Door & Dashboard Alumium Trim Strips....
Post by: WhiteGTI on April 17, 2009, 03:03:10 pm

VC has taken his off to paint Robin, maybe worth a PM to wake him up!  :wink:


...Cheers, Nath  :happy2: - Will do.

wigit has PM'd me a whole thread with pics too - Excellent but no time yet to sort it for GTI, trim strip only, consumption yet. Will do so later today hopefully. Off to wash my car.............

Can you PM me this also Robin? I quite want to take my interior trim off too!  :happy2:
Title: Re: Door & Dashboard Alumium Trim Strips....
Post by: wigit on April 17, 2009, 03:23:27 pm
guys chap has removed these from his roc (essentially the same) on our forum but its a bit wordy and not all relavent and the mix of brushed aluminium and r32 bits is a bit  :scared:
Title: Re: Door & Dashboard Alumium Trim Strips....
Post by: RedRobin on April 17, 2009, 05:06:24 pm

guys chap has removed these from his roc (essentially the same) on our forum but its a bit wordy and not all relavent and the mix of brushed aluminium and r32 bits is a bit  :scared:


....I'm back home now and have done the deed - I'll edit that Rocco post and post a new one here under How To's and I'll credit the guy for his pics and info.

So.....soon, guys  :happy2:

My upholstery guy turns out to be a friend of a friend and lent me a set of those nice blue polythingy tools and also a star-bolt doer/undoer (sounds Dutch) for next week.
Title: Re: Door & Dashboard Alumium Trim Strips....
Post by: WhiteGTI on April 17, 2009, 05:08:15 pm

guys chap has removed these from his roc (essentially the same) on our forum but its a bit wordy and not all relavent and the mix of brushed aluminium and r32 bits is a bit  :scared:


....I'm back home now and have done the deed - I'll edit that Rocco post and post a new one here under How To's and I'll credit the guy for his pics and info.

So.....soon, guys  :happy2:

My upholstery guy turns out to be a friend of a friend and lent me a set of those nice blue polythingy tools and also a star-bolt doer/undoer (sounds Dutch) for next week.

That will be very helpful to me  :smiley: :smiley:
Title: Re: Door & Dashboard Alumium Trim Strips....
Post by: RedRobin on April 17, 2009, 05:36:05 pm

That will be very helpful to me  :smiley: :smiley:


....In that case I won't do it! :evilgrin:

Anyway, I don't have time - I've got a date with Elisabetta Gregoraci :wink:
Title: Re: Door & Dashboard Alumium Trim Strips....
Post by: WhiteGTI on April 17, 2009, 05:43:53 pm
 :signLOL: :signLOL: :signLOL:
Title: Re: Door & Dashboard Alumium Trim Strips....
Post by: v2brett on April 17, 2009, 05:58:40 pm

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  :happy2:  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 started at the ends and the door card def stays on, and as above the best things are those plastic trim remover thingys  :happy2:
Title: Re: Door & Dashboard Alumium Trim Strips....
Post by: SeanyK on July 28, 2010, 02:10:53 pm
My driver side aluminium door trim has developed a rather irritating rattle lol - so will be removing and putting a bit of double sided tape behind it to stop that!
Title: Re: Door & Dashboard Alumium Trim Strips....
Post by: RedRobin on July 28, 2010, 02:41:28 pm

My driver side aluminium door trim has developed a rather irritating rattle lol - so will be removing and putting a bit of double sided tape behind it to stop that!


....Be careful not to break any more of the rather fragile plastic fixings when removing/refixing. These strips aren't really designed to be taken on and off by VW's customers!
Title: Re: Door & Dashboard Alumium Trim Strips....
Post by: Saint Steve on July 28, 2010, 03:02:37 pm

My driver side aluminium door trim has developed a rather irritating rattle lol - so will be removing and putting a bit of double sided tape behind it to stop that!


Especially carefull ahe Mr Hedge  :wink:

....Be careful not to break any more of the rather fragile plastic fixings when removing/refixing. These strips aren't really designed to be taken on and off by VW's customers!
Title: Re: Door & Dashboard Alumium Trim Strips....
Post by: SeanyK on July 28, 2010, 05:31:37 pm
I suspect the previous owner broke one of the clips, hence why it makes a noise unless I press it in!

It's not that loud, just irritating, 9 times out of 10 the stereo will drown out any rattles, after all, I am in Essex  :evilgrin: