Re: Removing rear door panels

[Elliott Potter <epotter@abraxis.com>]

It's not fun, but it's not too hard.  The only tools you'll need a
Phillips Head screwdriver (P2 works well).  

Open the door and look at the bit of the door panel that is obscured
when the door is closed.  At the top you'll see a small screw, take it
out.  There's another one in the same spot on the other side.
Then look at the door handle (door handle=the one you grip to close the
door, not the one you pull to open the door).  Look at it from the
underside and you'll see one screw on the top of the bottom half of the
plastic insert that's in the handle.  Unscrew that, then grip the bottom
half as best you can and PULL.  It helps if you pry it loose a little
first with a small screwdriver.  It might pull halfway out and then
stop--it means you haven't pulled hard enough.  Remember it's plastic,
though.
Once it's out you'll see two big screws--unscrew them.  Take out the top
half of the door handle insert (again pull hard).  It helps if you pull
out the back side (towards the trunk) first, because the front side has
a big fat piece of plastic that the lower insert was screwed into.
Now, with one hand grab the handle and with your other hand grab the
bottom of the door panel, and pull up.  This may take some doing--if you
worry about pulling the door out of alignment (BTDT on a front door)
have a friend push the door down while you pull the panel up.  It will
move up for about an inch and then it's free.  When it is free, it will
jerk up and a small metal clip will go flying through the air--that clip
holds the cable for the door latch handle, so go looking for it.  There
are also a few big chunks of foam rubber that may fall down--these
aren't vital and mine are now long gone.
You'll have to disconnect the power window switch (easy enough) and the
door latch handle.

When you put the panel back on, note the line of slits going around the
door (the slits that the door panel was clipped to).  Some of them will
have black pieces of rubber on them, and some of them won't--this is
because the bits of rubber are stuck to the door frame; you'll want to
get them from the door frame and put them back on the door first.

HTH, feel free to ask questions if I've regressed to incoherent
blithering.

BTW, what speakers did you get?  Are they amplified?  I think that the
speaker wiring you'll see is all line level.
-- 
Elliott





Stephen C. Petelle wrote:
> 
> I was wondering if anybody knows how to remove the rear door panels on a
> '93 Audi 90s. I haven't given it much effort yet, but I am assuming that
> it is just a few screws and then it pops off. The reason I need to know
> it that I am going to replace the stock speakers in the rear doors. Any
> help would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks.
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