Old thread resurrection! :ROFL:

My drivers door lower trim is damaged; while doing some pre-MJ checks I caught my leg on it a few weeks ago! She didn't have time, given the huge load of other jobs, to look at it while it was there.

I found the plastic strip on the inside but it didn't want to slide. :tuttut:
It was quite loose at one end anyway and eventually just unclipped straight off; hopefully not too damaged to clip back on, otherwise it may need some adhesive or double-sided tape at the end of the job.

This is the door trim, not bad but I know it's wrong:

http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/attachmen...1&d=1656672955

And looking at the strip it appears that "someone" in the past has just pressed it onto the mounting studs rather than sliding it, probably why it wasn't very secure, wouldn't slide and popped off easily. :tuttut:
Fortunately there's not much damage and I can probably ease the plastic channel back into it's proper shape and slide it back on securely in due course. :cool:

Part of it had quite a bit of dirt behind, where it hadn't been fixed fully flush against the door surface. :(

The evidence, there's a handful of places with similar witness marks. :mad:

http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/attachmen...1&d=1656681781
(The others also have smaller marks the other side of the channel as those clips did engage - this didn't hence the muck!)

Hopefully, if it doesn't go back on securely, A8Parts can supply one.

PS The photo is indeed upside down from how it is mounted on the door, but the lighting makes it look weird the other way up.

Today I removed the two screws that stop the strip moving, slid it backwards and removed it.
Oddly it looked fine, apart from some tears in the rubber seals, it was straight and true. :Confused:

Then I realised that there are seven fixing clips on the strip and that one was still on the door, the rearmost one!
They just clip into a channel and this had popped out but wouldn't push back on, so the end was sitting proud.
I just slid it off the door and clipped it back in place after carefully reshaping the metal it had been pulled away from.

For now it's just going back on; I'll see if our sponsors have an undamaged one that I can fit in its place in due course. If not I'll have a go at repairing the tears in the rubber.
(I have some compound that I've used fairly effectively on damage to the boot seal on the lower lip.)

Looks good now and was a lot easier to fix than expected. +++
The cover strip on the inside also slid on correctly with a little "persuasion". :tuttut:

http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/attachmen...1&d=1656933478

Glad that was easily sorted :)

Me too, no glue required, just refit a clip! :cool:

Though I do wonder who'd been in there before and why, removing the cover strip incorrectly?