How to remove exterior SR5 molding

Need a car part and don't know where to get it or how to install it. Look here!
Post Reply
User avatar
NWMO
Highest Ranking Member
Posts: 1615
Joined: Wed May 20, 2015 1:08 pm

How to remove exterior SR5 molding

Post by NWMO »

Hey all,

How do I remove these without tearing something up?
You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.
Psalm 37:4 "Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart"

In remembrance of my friend ARCHINSTL:

T4WD augury?
"Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?' Let us go and make our visit."
T.S. Eliot - "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

"Now and then we had a hope that, if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates."
Mark Twain
User avatar
Petros
Highest Ranking Member
Posts: 11930
Joined: Sun Jan 28, 2007 6:31 pm
My tercel:: '84 Tercel4wd w/extensive mods
Location: Arlington WA USA

Re: How to remove exterior SR5 molding

Post by Petros »

as I recall, the first fastener near the front edge of each molding uses an small stud with a nut on it, 8mm nut. access from the back side, inside the door, and behind the interior panels, etc. the rest should be plastic clips that pop free with carefully applied outward pressure.

it is helpful to lubricate plastic clips with silicone spray and "help" them out from behind the door, use a wide plastic putty knife on the outside to put outward pressure on them. the old plastic gets brittle with age, there may not be a way to prevent breaking some of them.
'87 Tercel 4wd SR5 (current engine swap project)
'84 Tercel 4wd (daily driver, with on going mods)
'92 Mazda MPV 4wd (wife's daily driver)
'85 Tercel 4wd DLX auto(daughter's daily driver)
'01 Honda Civic (other daughter's daily driver)
Post Reply