How to remove CGT Sill Mouldings?

[alan pritchard]

i didnt actually know them bits came off!!!! suits me, i wanted to make some
ally ones anyway!!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Huw Powell" <audi at mediaone.net>
To: "rob hod" <rob3 at hod3.fsnet.co.uk>
Cc: <quattro at audifans.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 2:31 AM
Subject: Re: How to remove CGT Sill Mouldings?


>
> >     I wonder if anyone could tell me how to remove the sill mouldings
fitted
> > to my '87 Euro spec CGT.
>
> > What i want to do is remove the factory ( plastic?/abs?/glassfibre?)
> > mouldings, that cover the sills on this model, remove grime, check for
rust,
> > and refit the mouldings. However I obviously don't want to start the job
> > unless I know i can get them back on looking as untouched and well
fitted as
> > they do now.
>
> I think I tore someof those off a car once - I just I could remember how
> destructive it was.  You'll certainly have to pull out the rubber door
> seal, but that is non-destructive.  The sills, I think, are held in by
> some invisible plastic clips (like most of the car!) and I'm not sure if
> they were kind of a "one time assembly only" type.  Wish I could
> remember...
>
> (One trip to the attic later)
>
> You can remove them carefully.  There are about five captive white
> plastic pins on the sill panal, which snap into little black plastic
> sockets in the metal.  These sockets are still attached to my spares, so
> I imagine they popped out of the metal easier than the pins popped out
> of them.  The spares show no signs of damage, so I think you will be ok
> so long as you go slow and gentle.
>
> --
> Huw Powell
>
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