Door Trim
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Inner Panel Removal
Q. How do you remove the inner panel door trim? A. With great difficulty unless you know how.
This is a very common question as there are lots of door related issues: rattles, speakers and electric windows. A good starting point is a visit to your dealer to obtain some spare orange plastic door button retaining clips.
- Prise out the orange clip and remove the door button. There is a trim retaining screw behind this button that must be removed.
- Remove the screw behind the interior door release handle, and unhook the handle escutcheon from the trim panel. You should now see two screws securing the handle bracket and door trim to the door shell. Remove these.
- Carefully remove the inlay cloth/leather trim from the elbow recess, and remove another two screws at the rear of the door handle.
- Carefully pull off the carpet inlay at the bottom of the door to reveal 7 plastic 'scrivets' as Lotus call them! You will need to stick the carpet back with a suitable adhesive later.
- Remove the three screws in the dash recess at the front of the door trim, and last but by means least, the screw behind the door weatherstrip. This can be tricky to find as its behind the top rear end (door button side) of the weatherstrip which is bonded to the door. The door trim can now be removed.
- Refitting, as they always say, is the reverse of the above! Take care when refitting to make sure the door button lock rod passes through its aperture, and that it’s in its fully up position when refitting the infamous orange retaining clip.
