Plastic sill and door trim EV4 Trophy

[philowen]

Hi all, has anyone removed the back plastic trim and sill trim off the car, my wife scraped the passenger side on a low wall. I can get the parts cheap enough and think they are just popped on similar to the inside door cards, I can’t find anything on YouTube etc.

 

[Diggsy]

Is this what you need?…

 

[philowen]

Is this what you need?…

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It is thanks, was hoping for a bit more info on how to. ( PRY OPEN ) The clip fixings, as I don’t want to scratch / damage the paint work. I’ve seen plastic pry tools on Amazon that are used to remove inner door cards so may get a set of those..?

 

[Diggsy]

It is thanks, was hoping for a bit more info on how to. ( PRY OPEN ) The clip fixings, as I don’t want to scratch / damage the paint work. I’ve seen plastic pry tools on Amazon that are used to remove inner door cards so may get a set of those..?

You’re welcome! Sadly that’s all the detail they provide. I’d just take your time with plastic pry tools like you suggested. Start at one end and gently prise it. If that doesn’t work, try the other, and failing that, try somewhere around the middle. You should feel when it’s ready to loosen

 

[ReintjeWA]

You could try a microfibre cloth between the tool and the paint to minimise the risk of scratches maybe?

 

[philowen]

Thanks both, tools on order, bought the plastic replacement trims got some microfibre cloths so will be having a go shortly…

 

[GJMG4 North]

Thanks both, tools on order, bought the plastic replacement trims got some microfibre cloths so will be having a go shortly…

Would you post some pictures of the job as you go, it might be really helpful for other people in the same situation?

 

[aitch]

Hi all, has anyone removed the back plastic trim and sill trim off the car, my wife scraped the passenger side on a low wall. I can get the parts cheap enough and think they are just popped on similar to the inside door cards, I can’t find anything on YouTube etc.

Where have you found these, have the same issue??

 

[Deleted member 21813]

Thanks both, tools on order, bought the plastic replacement trims got some microfibre cloths so will be having a go shortly…

Where did you purchase the replacement trims from? TIA.

 

[drtimo]

The door trims are easy enough to remove and you can guess, based on the position of the clips, where to pry them from my photo. The door sill is more tricky and eventually had to break the clips to get them off but I was replacing them anyway.

 

[ReintjeWA]

It's nice to see the plastic trim comes off fairly easily, I remember seeing a red one for sale on the forum that had the trim painted, looked pretty good IMO.

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[philowen]

Where have you found these, have the same issue??

Bought the trims from MG garage locally about £110 for sill and front door piece.

 

[philowen]

I finally got around to the job, the door trim was surprisingly easy I literally pulled it off...too easy.
The sill was harder, there are 2 screws on rear arch 1 on front which I used a small wrench and pozi bit to remove, along the underneath were 9 poppers? that didn't pose too much of a problem with a crows foot pry tool. but then the hard part...there are 13 white plastic poppers that open up inside the metal once pushed on at the factory and they did not want to come back out. I Used some of the tools I got in a set from Amazon..( good reviews, but really soft and bendy so pretty useless for this job), Ended up breaking the sill trim off in pieces, leaving the poppers still in, but once exposed they can be twisted 90 degrees to extract them. whew.... cleaned/washed all the paintwork and refitted new trims quite easily, I didn't enjoy having to break the sill trim but now I know that, then its a relatively simple job. You could not remove it whole for some reason then refit it...

 

[philowen]

Here are the rest of the pics I took sry not more I was concentrating on not damaging the paint.
You can see the offending white push in poppers, once in they spread out and cant come back out without breaking them.

 

[philowen]

Where did you purchase the replacement trims from? TIA.

Direct from the main dealer, looked on ebay for parts off maybe damaged cars but they were much more expensive than from the dealer. I think the two parts came to about £110