My Dad's '96 LeSabre side view mirror has been snapped off. We have a replacement, but are encountering difficulty removing the interior door panel to get to the mounting screws. We have taken out the screws we can find, but the panel remains solidly on. I hesitate to just take a pry bar to it. What's the trick?
I googled newsgroups for an answer. The question has been asked many times over the years, but has never been answered.
Thanks,
Kevin Gallimore
If you are sure you got all the screws, (and I bet you don't) slide it straight up about an inch and then pull out. But there are screws in the hand hold, and behind the inside door handle and I think on the bottom. gary
I have the same question with regard to a 91 Chevy Blazer. Does the same approach work?
Jerry
I recently found a rather handle tool for such things! If the link works...
Best Regards, Keith Marshall snipped-for-privacy@progressivelogic.com
"I'm not grown up enough to be so old!"
No, and I think he's leaving out a step for the Buick as well. See my other post in this thread about the new online repair manuals available on AutoZone's site.
Best Regards, Keith Marshall snipped-for-privacy@progressivelogic.com
"I'm not grown up enough to be so old!"
presuming your blazer is like my 93 suburban, there is a single screw in the door handle, then pull around the front/back/bottom to unsap the clips, pull out the trim plastic infront of the handle, and lift up - window should be partway down when you do this.
Speaking from general experience, there are nylon plastic clips that look like double-headed nails in the door panel. The 'head' keys into a dumbbell shaped slot in the chipboard backing for the door lining, and the 'nail' point snaps into a hole in the steel door frame, and has a bulbous section (sometimes serrated) that locks it in place.
Every car I've ever had to work on doors on uses a variation on this same basic theme. Pull up the edges a bit and get in there with a flashlight, you'll see them.
They sell a special pry-bar for removing these clips that looks like an odd two-prong pickle fork - or you could use one of the 8" "Baby" versions of a regular carpenters flat pry-bar... You want to go under and apply pressure between the nylon clip head and the steel door inner skin - if you pry on the chipboard, all you'll do is break out the keyed hole in the chipboard and leave the clip in the door frame, meaning a new door liner. The upholstery is often RF-welded straight to the chipboard, not field repairable...
And for the clips that you break off getting it open (and unless you're extraordinarily gentle, and the clips are new enough not to be brittle, you will) Dorman and other bulk hardware companies sell the replacement snaps. Auto parts or upholstery supply.
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On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 21:40:43 -0400, the inscrutable axolotl spake:
I use an old Mac U-14 clip remover tool; a bent screwdriver looking handle with a U-shape forked end. Apparently, they no longer sell it and have replaced it with the following $29 pair of tools.
And if you need to replace the -outer- panel, use this one:
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