New door pins!
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I have a set of the same door pins from ebay sitting on my workbench since February. It's either been too cold or I've been too busy to install them. I hope to get to them next week.
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I have the same ones. I only did the front though as the rears require door panel removal, and my experience is that interior panels like that rarely fit as tight after they’ve been removed. I’m just not sure how badly I want to do it. On the other hand, I find the road noise level in these cars to be fairly bad, so I’m considering pulling the door panels all around to add some sound deadening material inside the door panels.
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I did this last summer on all 4 doors. Fronts were screw on. Rears I just pulled old ones off (very carefully w a cloth wrapped around it and window rolled down) w a plier and installed new ones. I used locktite to make sure they would never come off. They fit perfect and look so much better than factory plastic.
Also, if you do the rears- be sure to only apply a little bit of locktite and only on the part of the pin that will contact the nub. If you put too much on it will drip down and end up getting glued to other things that will prevent the rear door pin from locking/unlocking. Don’t ask me how I know this, lol. Luckily I was able to eventually release it and correct. It it was scary for a bit there. Anyway,good luck and they.re gonna look great.
Also, if you do the rears- be sure to only apply a little bit of locktite and only on the part of the pin that will contact the nub. If you put too much on it will drip down and end up getting glued to other things that will prevent the rear door pin from locking/unlocking. Don’t ask me how I know this, lol. Luckily I was able to eventually release it and correct. It it was scary for a bit there. Anyway,good luck and they.re gonna look great.
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I did this last summer on all 4 doors. Fronts were screw on. Rears I just pulled old ones off (very carefully w a cloth wrapped around it and window rolled down) w a plier and installed new ones. I used locktite to make sure they would never come off. They fit perfect and look so much better than factory plastic.
Also, if you do the rears- be sure to only apply a little bit of locktite and only on the part of the pin that will contact the nub. If you put too much on it will drip down and end up getting glued to other things that will prevent the rear door pin from locking/unlocking. Don’t ask me how I know this, lol. Luckily I was able to eventually release it and correct. It it was scary for a bit there. Anyway,good luck and they.re gonna look great.
Also, if you do the rears- be sure to only apply a little bit of locktite and only on the part of the pin that will contact the nub. If you put too much on it will drip down and end up getting glued to other things that will prevent the rear door pin from locking/unlocking. Don’t ask me how I know this, lol. Luckily I was able to eventually release it and correct. It it was scary for a bit there. Anyway,good luck and they.re gonna look great.
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I did this last summer on all 4 doors. Fronts were screw on. Rears I just pulled old ones off (very carefully w a cloth wrapped around it and window rolled down) w a plier and installed new ones. I used locktite to make sure they would never come off. They fit perfect and look so much better than factory plastic.
Also, if you do the rears- be sure to only apply a little bit of locktite and only on the part of the pin that will contact the nub. If you put too much on it will drip down and end up getting glued to other things that will prevent the rear door pin from locking/unlocking. Don’t ask me how I know this, lol. Luckily I was able to eventually release it and correct. It it was scary for a bit there. Anyway,good luck and they.re gonna look great.
Also, if you do the rears- be sure to only apply a little bit of locktite and only on the part of the pin that will contact the nub. If you put too much on it will drip down and end up getting glued to other things that will prevent the rear door pin from locking/unlocking. Don’t ask me how I know this, lol. Luckily I was able to eventually release it and correct. It it was scary for a bit there. Anyway,good luck and they.re gonna look great.
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Attached is a PDF copy of AZ72.10-P-0005EW "Retrofit AMG retainer button" (Installation of the AMG door pins in a W212 which is the same procedure for the C218)
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Were the wires in the door still accessible?? Any danger of them slipping down into the whole?
what did you use to attach the new pins?
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no the wires don't fall down and they pop back up if you hit unlock anyway.
I used a little bit of blue Loctite and I just pressed down at the same time that I hit unlock if that makes sense.
It was fairly easy, I had read a bunch and expected it to be much harder or problematic.
realistically I think you could get away with using almost anything or nothing at all because no one's ever going to pull them up you know what I mean?
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They popped off pretty easily. Little bit of force but nothing scary.. I was careful 'cause I could imagine putting the pliers through the tint lol.
no the wires don't fall down and they pop back up if you hit unlock anyway.
I used a little bit of blue Loctite and I just pressed down at the same time that I hit unlock if that makes sense.
It was fairly easy, I had read a bunch and expected it to be much harder or problematic.
realistically I think you could get away with using almost anything or nothing at all because no one's ever going to pull them up you know what I mean?
no the wires don't fall down and they pop back up if you hit unlock anyway.
I used a little bit of blue Loctite and I just pressed down at the same time that I hit unlock if that makes sense.
It was fairly easy, I had read a bunch and expected it to be much harder or problematic.
realistically I think you could get away with using almost anything or nothing at all because no one's ever going to pull them up you know what I mean?
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I noticed your floor mats, while looking at your pictures. What kind are they?
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Thanks to your great instructions, I worked up the courage to pop my rear pins tonight. I found I couldn't get them loose using a wrench under the pliers for leverage, I used a slightly taller small block of wood about the same height as the dimple on the plastic pin and that worked like a charm. Anyway, they came off easily and actually left a bit of plastic poking up through the hole to attach the new pins to. For some reason I was expecting a metal wire to be somewhere down the hole. It was a lot easier than I thought. I used crazy glue to attach the new pins. We'll see how that holds up, but as you say, these pins are really just visual indicators of locked or unlocked now, they no longer function in any way as pins you can pull on to unlock the door as they sit flush when locked. They can still be used to lock the door, but auto locking takes care of that.
It’s a small thing but sometimes old school folks who sit in the back seat just wanna pull something rather than search for the unlock button lol
