Automotive Carpet Replacement: Remove Door Inserts

Video Transcript

"Okay in this segment we're covering removing the driver's side front and rear inner door inserts. And here's where things get a little bit tricky and you want to make sure we pay attention to detail at this point. As we take the parts off, we want to lay them out so they stay in the same format because there's a chronological order--they overlap other plastic parts, and if we keep them in that order, the reassembly phase will be a lot less confusing, a lot less chance we end up with some overlapping labor--i.e. we put something on out of order and we have to remove it because the other one went on underneath it. So, first thing you do is remove the three screws that hold down the insert. If you'll look at the insert on both ends, you'll see how it overlaps the two plastic parts on either side. So that's the first step that has to be done before these other plastic parts can be removed. And screws will go right into the little plastic insert there. Just want to remove all three screws. This over here isn't freely backing out, so it's been stripped. So, what I'm going to do is by lifting up on it as I drill, I get some lifting motion, and it helps pull that screw out of the stripped insert. Now if I mark or note that, I can go back and put a larger screw in or replace the worn out insert that's in the body. And I just snap the piece out--want to keep the screws together. Lay that aside, and we'll just move to the front door and get that access panel next, or the insert next. Now in the front we have the exact same situation: three screws that hold it down, it's a little bit larger, and you can see how it overlaps the piece in front of it--the kick panel--and it overlaps the back piece where the being the door pillar. We'll remove those screws. Now these tend to accumulate a lot of dust and dirt and you might get dirt built up in the screws where you can't insert the Phillips. With a pick or some compressed air, or that little fine screwdriver can clean those grooves out and make it easier to get a grip on the screws if you need to. Now we have that removed, we'll just go ahead and plop that off and we'll set these aside, but we're going to, as we take off the other pieces we'll lay them back in chronological order just as we took them off the vehicle so it'll make reassembly that much easier. So watch our next segment, we'll cover actually removing the pieces and we'll just lay them out in the same order we took them off so we get everything in good chronological order."