Thursday 13 March 2014

S13 200sx Doorcard removal- Tutorial

I always find it cool, if people show other people how they work on their cars and document their steps with lots of pictures.
I'm personally more of a "graphic-oriented" guy, so for me that really helps.

Taking off the doorcard of the S13 wasn't a big deal, as I'm somehow the one who is good with taking off doorcards in the unit haha.

But I thought I might also create a tutorial for people who have no idea yet. Because everybody has to start somewhere!

Hope this helps someone :)

Doorcard removal:
(note this is a left-hand drive car)

This is the doorcard before I took it off. In the top right corner you can see already a screw which I took off first.

After I took off the first screw, I started to gently (but firmly) take off the plastic border around the door handle.
Looks like that:


The next screw is a hidden one :) Have a look at the picture.
With a flat headed screw driver you can gently take off the plastic cover over the screw (cover placed left ) and take this screw off as well.


 And thats all with the screws! How easy!
You can now start to pull off the doorcard. You can be a bit forceful but try do to it with a bit of feeling as well.
I started to grab the corner, where I took off the first screw and started pulling off the doorcard from one corner to the other.
There is some plastic-clips inside who hold the doorcard in place (and make the pulling such a hassle). 



Be careful before you fully take the doorcard away (after it came off), because the electrical windows are connected to some wires (of course). Looks like that: 


And that's the door without the doorcard! :)



If you look at the passenger side door, you can find this fella:


Simply unscrew it try to take it off. But it is actually tricky! You will see why in the next picture!




So in order to take that handle off, twist it around until you can snap it out of the attachment.


The passenger side doorcard is besides the handle, the exact same procedure :)

Hope this helps!