Door handle surround thingy

[hogweed]

Originally Posted by Arctic

First take screw out from door panel unclip the two locating lugs if door panel is to be removed start a bottom and pop the clips from bottom of door panel working you way up and round the edge once you have enough room you should be able to feed the door handle through so when you finaly pull the door panel off it does not brake the chrome surround, or you can unclup the door handle from the cable first. Arctic.

I was hoping to avoid taking the whole panel off - is that possible?

[hogweed]

Woah!!! Just wheeked it off – without breaking it, thanks to you guys – few dabs with the hot plastic gun, and it seems to be rock solid!

Thanks so much

[Arctic]

Originally Posted by hogweed

Woah!!! Just wheeked it off – without breaking it, thanks to you guys – few dabs with the hot plastic gun, and it seems to be rock solid!

Thanks so much

well done not that hard once you know how Arctic.

[hogweed]

Originally Posted by Arctic

well done not that hard once you know how Arctic.

Thing is, I have a VERY short fuse, and tend to break things, so I have to be very disciplined about asking people before jumping in.

And it would never, ever have occurred to me that the chrome bit wasn’t actually MEANT to be removed separately… my last three cars were Beemers, and with them, you pushed the equivalent of the chrome bit hard backwards and it slipped out of its tapered hooks. Back in the same way.