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    Help Required - How to refit exterior door lower sill grey trim?

    Hi,

    My friend's D3's front passenger door's exterior lower door trim (ie the grey plastic on the lower part of the door before it meets the sill) came loose the other day. (It was stuck on the grass verge and then someone tried to close the door and the plastic came undone).

    We can see all the yellow plastic attachments stuck to the paintwork, and all the adjoining white discs with holes that align up to the plastic part, but no matter how much we push they just won't "click" into place.

    Is there any particular method, or tool to get the trim back on?

    Thanks,
    Edwin.

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    Quote Originally Posted by eddomak View Post
    It was stuck on the grass verge and then someone tried to close the door and the plastic came undone
    I can't help with refitting the plastic but someone did the same on our D4 recently but only started to pull the rubber flap out, which was a bit fiddly to fix.
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    Hi Edwin,

    Had to do this on mine recently. Mine got pulled off when the sidestep was bent up while 4wding and caught it. I replaced all the plastic clips as the only way to get it back that I could work out is to have the clips in the plastic and then press it onto the door. So you need to take the clips out of the door and attach them to the plastic and I found that I destroyed most of them getting them out of the door as they had got quite brittle.

    Cheers,

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    What a timely thread. Mine did the same thing a few weeks ago too. All the clips still on both parts, but damned if I can get them to clip together!

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    Thanks everyone for the advice - I will pass it onto my friend. Glad I don't need to do it for my own.

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    Ditto to this being a very timely thread. I came home today to discover that my wife had managed to do exactly the same thing - caught the edge on grass and off came the plastic trim.

    I just pushed it back on and gave it a few firm kicks with my docs ... guess i'll be heading back to the garage later to assess the sucess, or otherwise, of my footwork ...

    Ta to Tim for his comments on how to fix it properly !

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    Fit some Sliders like GOE's and it dont happen!!!

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