Door cards

[smithy78]

Hi
Another week, another post that has been asked time and time before.
How hard is it to remove the door cards. Someone decided to use a nice black plastic from an S&M catalogue on mine. So thinking of replacing back with cream carpet. Not sure if this is easy to do, and where do i start?
Thanks
Mark

[Ireland]

There are some bolts which you remove with an allen key at the front, back and under the door card.

Once they are out you just lift the door card off the door.

You will need to unplug the jack-plugs for the speakers / door button / etc.

Simple as that.


Enjoy.

[Marian]

8 Allen bolts to undo, remember to hold the card when taking the last one out though, disconnect the connector block thingies and the jobs a good un. (even I can do this)

[greenm]

And hold on tight they sure are heavy worth doing once a year to clean and protect the electrics in there and clean out all the grim and bits that somehow force there way under the very bottom of the card.

[Tanguero]

Oh - and stick a bit of carpet or blanket on the garage floor/drive under the door to rest it on. The bottom edge is painted and its not hard to scratch it all to buggery.

[smithy78]

Thanks all. Will give it a try this week.
I must say, everyone is so helpful on here. Even with the most stupid questions like mine.

[al 350i]

at the leading edge of the window there will be a small piece of rubber that is SOMETIMES stuck down with silicone and attached to the door card, so you may have to break the seal and then re-silicone it back down. the door cards on the cerb are probably one of the few things that TVR managed to do a good job of as they are easy to get off and give excellent access to the inner workings.

try taking a chimaera door card off and you'll probably end up calling the fire brigade out to come and get your arm back out for you

[JensenA]

And just in case you dont know .........remove the 2 inner part's of the inner-door panel - the bit that houses the speaker and the big surround bit. On the 'hidden side' of the door panel there are a lot of Allen head screws (probably hidden under blobs of silicone), remove them all and you'll see how easy it is to do a re-cover job.

[Tanguero]

And when you reassemble it all with your nice new carpet/leather/whatever - do put silicone back over the heads of the screws if you don't want water marks on your new door linings.