I asked a lot of people if they had taken off their mirrors to avoid a seam of clear film around their mirrors. No one I asked had done this yet. I wanted to avoid this if possible. Having now done this to both cars, I would say the new car is easier (there are no X-mas fasteners to wrestle with, or vapor barrier to try to remove with out damage), once you get over the mental hurdle of thinking that your going to break something.
Blue tape is your friend, other tools are plastic interior tools, torx drivers, 10mm deep socket.
1. Roll up the window, or you will have to reconnect the lower panel to get the window back up (as me how I know). Also you will see in the pictures, I have the upper panels off (there are 2) on the 1st door I thought these needed to come off, they don’t, to get the mirrors off. I however elected to take off the other side, as I’m having tint applied, and I thought it would keep these panels safe from application fluids, knives etc.
2. I started with the speaker grill. There are 6 clips. Disconnect the door lock, and tweeter. Picture of the back side. I only used the tool to get the 1st 2 clips, Aster I used my hands, as the inside of the grill is foam, I didn’t want the tool to tear the foam.
3. Elbow pad, this would be frustrating if the trick isn’t known. At the back, you need to raise the edge, that frees a tab, that then allows the pad to slide backwards. Circle shows this tab. This must come off, as it conceals 2 screws to remove the lower door panel.
Blue tape is your friend, other tools are plastic interior tools, torx drivers, 10mm deep socket.
1. Roll up the window, or you will have to reconnect the lower panel to get the window back up (as me how I know). Also you will see in the pictures, I have the upper panels off (there are 2) on the 1st door I thought these needed to come off, they don’t, to get the mirrors off. I however elected to take off the other side, as I’m having tint applied, and I thought it would keep these panels safe from application fluids, knives etc.
2. I started with the speaker grill. There are 6 clips. Disconnect the door lock, and tweeter. Picture of the back side. I only used the tool to get the 1st 2 clips, Aster I used my hands, as the inside of the grill is foam, I didn’t want the tool to tear the foam.
3. Elbow pad, this would be frustrating if the trick isn’t known. At the back, you need to raise the edge, that frees a tab, that then allows the pad to slide backwards. Circle shows this tab. This must come off, as it conceals 2 screws to remove the lower door panel.
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