[s-cars] Lower door trim, redux...

[Marc Gorelick]

Eric:

This was so easy, even I could do it. :-)

1. Open door.
2. Grab trim firmly and pull it toward the aft part of the door. The 
moulding should slide off fairly easily.  Note that the moulding was 
installed onto a row of white plastic clips. If you're feeling 
it...clean the dirt out of the clips and off the bottom of the door.
3. A small rubber cap will probably fall off the front of the trim 
piece. Save this, you'll need to install it on the new moulding. Then 
again, maybe it's already gone...
4. Remove the new parts from the long tube that they ship it to you in.
5. Spend some time straightening the new moulding out from where large 
gorillas employed by ECS bent it by cramming it into the shipping tube. 
Don't ask me how I know this.
6. Some have chosen to seal the new moulding with epoxy or other 
materials so that you don't end up having to replace it again. I was 
lazy and decided that it took 12 years for the existing moulding to look 
bad enough to be worthy of replacement...and that I couldn't imagine the 
car making it until 2017.
7. Carefully slide the new moulding onto the aforementioned white 
plastic clips. It will take a bit of effort, but not too much. Stop when 
you're about 1"" from the forward part of the door.
8. Put the old rubber cap on the fore part of the new moulding. This 
took me a bit of work, and was eventually accomplished by doing it from 
the outer side of the door. There is supposed to be a metal retaining 
spring clip as part of the cap...one of mine was completely rusted off  
and the other was in bad shape.
9. Push the cap in with a big, fat screwdriver.
10. Repeat on the other doors.

Enjoy the 3HP gained from the new mouldings. :-)



Eric Phillips wrote:

>OK, So the ECS Tuning kit is $170, which ain't too shabby.
> I need to redo all four, so that kit makes sense. Now, for the question - 
>has anyone written up *how* to do this without breaking stuff? I want to do 
>this right, so that it'll be a fix to be proud of, to show off to my wife 
>and say, "see, I can fix stuff!"
> Hints, tips, and suggestions welcomed. :)
> While not to re-energize a flame-fest, I thought some about my S6 vs. Lexus 
>and Acura cars of that same era. ISTR that the Lexus cars were M-B 
>knock-offs in style, and had Buick-like ride quality. The Acuras of that age 
>were barely more than tarted-up Hondas. And I don't think any of them could 
>perform nearly as well as the S6. Of course, they didn't cost as much, 
>either. And I don't think there's going to be an "Acura-fest" or a 
>"Lexus-fest" any time in the near future! Just like you don't buy a Ferrari 
>for it's ease of maintenance and reliability, you don't buy an S-Car for 
>it's mere transportation ability. Heck, if that's all I wanted, I could buy 
>an A1 Scirocco, drop in a 1.8T mill, full 16V leather interior, and still 
>have a ton of money left over for replacement bits.
> While it would be fun, it wouldn't be an S-car. :)
> Now, about that door trim BTDT...
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