renew and improve door closing and trim parts

[deQuincey]

i carried out this little work in some weeks time

it included:

1- lower stainless mouldings disassembly, and cleaning,
2- painting of lower rocker panels in black matt paint
3- remove door retaining lock in body side
4- remove aluminium big panel, clean and install new rubber from w&n, reinstall everything
5- glue some rubber seals that had came-off while disassembly
6- renew bolts to yellow zinc-plated, and install those little rubber white caps that smooth the closing sound
7- reinstall stainless steel mouldings with new stainless steel bolts from w&n

photos will follow soon

 

[deQuincey]

disassemble and clean

yeah the original colour was " chamonix white "

 

[deQuincey]

clean parts apart and reassembly

just a little advice of how to remove this aluminium trim part from the car:

first of all remove the bolts on the lock retaining piece, there are 3 small bolts and one large

please note that there are two tiny bolts in the top of the part and one more of those in the bottom, (the case of this bottom bolt is that you will remove it in the same moment you disassemble the stainless steel moulding)

remove the intermediate bolt

from those two bolts in the top, the one in the top is needed to disengage the aluminium part from the window rail, so loosen this bolt and carefully rise the window rail a bit until the top of the aluminium part can move out freely

then to remove the part from the car start from the top pull up and frontwards very slowly, you sholud rotate also a bit to get it away from the rubber profile

when you reach the low area, you will need to rotate, pull up and twist the part, always slow and small movements, you´d better do it this way or you will damage something !

 

[deQuincey]

intermediate detail of process

painting the lower rocker panel:

renew, polish and new rubber glued to aluminium trim parts:

after assembling the rubber profiles, impact glue is applied on the rear side of the parts, to secure position

 

[deQuincey]

a new communication tool

let´s hear the sound ! (click on the image)
i like it, what about you ?


http://s999.photobucket.com/albums/...iew&current=sonidocierrepuerte20012011245.mp4

 

[Stevehose]

Music to a coupe owner's ears :mrgreen:

let´s hear the sound ! (click on the image)
i like it, what about you ?

 

[bmw art car]

i love it

 

[TravL350]

Very nice job, looks and sounds great!

 

[deQuincey]

aditional work on this topic

two weeks ago was almost impossible to remove the bolts that fixed the lock system in the door side

this was the old status (see top left bolt head damaged)

the reason for change was that the rubber was broken in one side

so, i used a kind of penetrating oil thoroughly over the bolts

and some tools:
first hit the screws with the hammer and chisel, then use the "T" key with a n3 phillips head, and i removed them ok

so this is the aspect of the basis

and these are the old parts

new parts from walloth, note that the new bolts "allen head" type

and asembly

i put some vaseline around the rubber to avoid drying and maintain it fresh

it works ok now