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D2 - Body and Exterior Bumpers, bonnets, glass, trims - Everything outside |
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Removing chrome and window trim for repaint
Good afternoon all
After having searched the matter, it seems hard to know what people referring to when they discuss 'trim' - each part of the car seems to have trim that could be described in a similar way. I would like to paint the rear wing and two passenger doors of my S8 because the previous owner did a shocking job / paid someone else to do a shocking job. Lots of mircroblistering and poor prep (despite costing nearly £2k) including dreadful masking I would like to remove the trims in the pictures. Does anyone know of any pictoral guides/images to help the process? Help much appreciated |
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OK, so
Rear glass. These are just pushed in, but dont grab just one corner, get all 8 fingers tucked in and start pulling gently. Quarter glass. This is where you need to open the rear door and start from the bottom by sliding a long flat head screwdriver, wrap the end with a tape, ideally cotton tape, 2-3 layers. DO NOT pry too hard !!! If you bend it too much, and there is not much tolerance, chrome will go funny, will look crap and banding it back won't help. At the bottom you have two clips and on the curved side 3 clips. When you undo the bottom ones, you will be able to do this by hand from now on, but again, be gentle - you will kind of have to find your own way of doing it, my way works and no damage done. Door is a little time consuming. You will need the glass out which is possible without removing the window frame (I did this on Saturday), but its a bit tricky. Remove the door card. Unscrew the window motor and remove. Remove two black rubber caps at the top of the alu panel. By hand slide the window down until you see 2 torx bolts. Undo them and push the window back up. Window guide/track on the door hinge side has two bolts fixing it onto the door shell, remove only the bottom one (Torx). When you do that remove the rubber seal as far up as possible from the track/guide before sliding glass all the way to the bottom. It will require a little force to jump over the kinked seal. Then by pushing the track out of the way a little and playing with the glass you will end up with a free glass inside the door. You want the door latch side top corner to come out first, it wont work the other way round. They behind the chrome trim you will see plastic push pins securing the trim, there is 5 of them. You need to first pull out the middle pin in order to release the clip, be slow and patient, they are easy to loose forever inside the door. One end one is tricky, but with torch you will be able to get to it. Otherwise you will have to remove the entire window frame and then realign if you don't want to do it my way. I will get you pics off all them in 10 minutes so you can see where the fixing points are as I am changing my trims as well as we speak.
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2006 D3 S8 5.2 V10 Ceramic Brakes, Bang&Olufsen, DTV, DAB, Rear Camera, BT, TPMS, Soft Close, Auto Boot, AMI , 4 Zone AC, Home Link, All Electric Blinds, Fingerprint, Ski Hatch, Black Extended Leather, Heated Sport Seats, Alacantra, Carbon Trim inc Aluminium Pack 2. 2015 A3 S line 1.4 TFSI - for the missus to keep her away from my car. Standard S-line equipment, no extras. 2006 D3 A8 3.7 V8 - SOLD but not forgotten |
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I would imagine THIS DOCUMENT should cover it
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Confidence is the feeling you have before you know better . . . . Audi A8 D2 3.7 Quattro Sport 1999 FL - Melange 2nd Place Winner - A8-Freunde Annual German Meet 2012 at Edersee 20" x 9" Bentley GTC Wheels with 385mm W12 Front Discs & Bentley Caliper Covers, Front Lowered on Coilovers, Xenons, Combined DRLs and LED Foglights to modified OEM front fog lamp position, Alcantara/Leather, Full Black Alcantara headlining + pillars and blind shelf, Bespoke Flat Bottomed Sports Steering Wheel, Dark Myrtle Wood, Autodim Mirrors, Bose, Blinds, Digital TV, Ski Hatch, Modified rear exhaust section for extra V8 Burble Audi S8 D2 Final Edition 2002, Avus Silver with Red Leather Interior Tiptronic with Sport mode button, Sony rear entertainment package, Bose sound system, Audi Navigation Plus, 20 inch Final Edition alloys, Full Cat Back Stainless Milltek exhaust, giving a great V8 burble Audi A8L D2 4.2 Petrol with LPG - Ebony Black Audi A8L D4 FL 4.0T Petrol twin turbo - Havana Black Audi A2 1.6 FSi Sport - Dolphin Grey with Votex body kit and Red Leather Interior and some other A8's A8L's and Mercs |
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Sorry, it's a D2 not a D3
They look so similar.
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2006 D3 S8 5.2 V10 Ceramic Brakes, Bang&Olufsen, DTV, DAB, Rear Camera, BT, TPMS, Soft Close, Auto Boot, AMI , 4 Zone AC, Home Link, All Electric Blinds, Fingerprint, Ski Hatch, Black Extended Leather, Heated Sport Seats, Alacantra, Carbon Trim inc Aluminium Pack 2. 2015 A3 S line 1.4 TFSI - for the missus to keep her away from my car. Standard S-line equipment, no extras. 2006 D3 A8 3.7 V8 - SOLD but not forgotten |
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Not sure where the doors are in the doc, but the strip for those is riveted on from the inside iirc. You need to remove the window frame from the door shell and then drill out the rivets. Last edited by MikkiJayne; 21st June 2017 at 01:01 PM. |
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Marcin, you CANNOT say that a D2 is similar in any way to a D3. I can imagine you confusing a D3 with a Volvo or any other modern saloon ..... whilst the D2 is a unique classic.
......and for Diplomat 2.6 i would strongly recommend you get yourselves a set of trim removal tools. (only about £12-15 off fleabay). Worth their weight in gold when fiddling with trim.
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2002 D2 S8 – Ming Blue, Valcona leather, Vavona wood insert, solar sunroof (to be fitted), Heated rear seats, extended leather pack, 18” Avus, ski hatch, Bose, auto dim rear view mirror, rear blind. |
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Volvo ?!?!?!?!? WOW David
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2006 D3 S8 5.2 V10 Ceramic Brakes, Bang&Olufsen, DTV, DAB, Rear Camera, BT, TPMS, Soft Close, Auto Boot, AMI , 4 Zone AC, Home Link, All Electric Blinds, Fingerprint, Ski Hatch, Black Extended Leather, Heated Sport Seats, Alacantra, Carbon Trim inc Aluminium Pack 2. 2015 A3 S line 1.4 TFSI - for the missus to keep her away from my car. Standard S-line equipment, no extras. 2006 D3 A8 3.7 V8 - SOLD but not forgotten |
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Didnt mean to upset you that much Marcin But the rear ends of these aerodynamic designed and tested cars are very much the same for obvious reasons.....
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2002 D2 S8 – Ming Blue, Valcona leather, Vavona wood insert, solar sunroof (to be fitted), Heated rear seats, extended leather pack, 18” Avus, ski hatch, Bose, auto dim rear view mirror, rear blind. |
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David, I am not upset in anyway, my banter knows no limits, I just don't show is as it's too much for most people
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2006 D3 S8 5.2 V10 Ceramic Brakes, Bang&Olufsen, DTV, DAB, Rear Camera, BT, TPMS, Soft Close, Auto Boot, AMI , 4 Zone AC, Home Link, All Electric Blinds, Fingerprint, Ski Hatch, Black Extended Leather, Heated Sport Seats, Alacantra, Carbon Trim inc Aluminium Pack 2. 2015 A3 S line 1.4 TFSI - for the missus to keep her away from my car. Standard S-line equipment, no extras. 2006 D3 A8 3.7 V8 - SOLD but not forgotten |
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