[s-cars] Re: A-pillar trim removal

[Kirby Smith]

heh, Huw, I can tell you from experience with my 90q's that the car will
insist on pillar maintenance no matter what you do.  :)

kirby


Huw Powell wrote:
> 
>  > The car is a '95 urS6.
> 
> > According to Bentley, in order to remove the A-pillar trim piece you
> > simply pop it out of three retaining clips by pulling the trim piece
> > inward from the top and then just lift the bottom out.  On trying this
> > it seems that popping the piece out of the retaining clips requires an
> > inordinate amount of force.  Is this the correct technique?
> 
> Well, if it's anything like my '89 90Q, and it sounds like it is, once
> two of those clips are broken (actually the tabs on the trim piece), it
> just falls out every few hundred miles for maintenance.
> 
> Although I'd say, just give it a stronger tug, the trouble is figuring
> out which direction you need to pull in.  A lot of the ones like on my
> car are missing a tab or two, probably from twisting or wrong-angle
> pulling to remove them.
> 
> One of these days I'll stick it back on more convincingly with some 3M
> strip-caulk...
> 
> --
> Huw Powell
> 
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