window switch in rear door

[Henry A Harper III]

The trick is that there is indeed a screw holding the interior door latch in, 
perhaps it is missing on your front door (my front doors have both broken the 
tiny plastic tab where the screw attaches the latchbox, and they will come 
loose unintentionally if there is any forward vector to the pulling motion). 
Pull the latch handle to its limit and you can see a round cutout at the base 
where you may insert a Phillips screwdriver to remove this screw, push latch 
box forward to remove, and then you can see the other screw behind the latch 
box which attaches the inner door panel to the door structure. But to get the 
window switch loose you only need to take off the armrest with three 4mm 
allen-head bolts loosened (not removed) from the bottom...

My car also has wires and connectors for the lighted ashtrays (such luxury!) 
that make rear doors a little trickier than front doors.

HTH
Henry Harper
http://www.henry-harper.com (back up soon after new hard drive and rebuild :( - 
I hope)
1991 200 quattro, 120k, new t-belt/wasserpump/seals/idler/v-belts/heater valve 
as of last night, used the stand-on-4-ft-cheater-bar method of loosening and 
tightening crank pulley bolt w/quickie 2084 tool, still have metal-geared 
distributor to put in
1988 GTI 16v, 238k, when does this need another t-belt again?

On Monday, December 01, 2003 12:17 PM, Konstantin Bogach 
[SMTP:konstantin.bogach at morganstanley.com] wrote:
>Hi.  I could not remove the switch with door lock release handle using
>same method as for the door handle in the front door:  push to the rear
>and pry it out of door panel.
>I wonder, is it any trick there?  And I believe, there is a screw
>underrelease handle trim which prevents removing the door panel and work
>from inside.
>
>Thanks.
>Konstantin.