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Drivers' side door handle coming apart... Any ideas or advice?

Old Mar 11, 2007 | 12:59 AM
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Drivers' side door handle coming apart... Any ideas or advice?

The vinyl that wraps around the interior handle of the drivers' door is coming loose on the seams where it was originally tucked into the assembly slot.
I thought about taking the door panel aprt and gluing the stuff back together then reassembling it all, but I have never seen how to properly disassemble the door panel.
I don't want to foul up the side airbags or any other 'unseen' obstacles by simply monkey fisting the panels apart.
Does anyone have any pics or direction on how to proceed with this type of project?
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Old Mar 11, 2007 | 01:26 AM
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=thAVY-3Ye6g
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Old Mar 11, 2007 | 01:27 AM
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I'd just stick some gorilla glue in the crevice haha :$ Nice video Raymond.
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Old Mar 11, 2007 | 01:00 PM
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Where the heck do you find this stuff?

I cannot believe someone actually took the time to make that video. It's an absolutely dynamite way to show me how not to ruin anything.
As long as I can reverse everything in my head for it to work on the other door, I'll be fine!
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Old Mar 11, 2007 | 04:12 PM
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that's simply one of about 100mb worth of videos on the MB disks, plus other
stills and animation. $100, and well worth the price. no, I'm not going to
post all of them ;-) try this also....

http://w210.pietrzyk.net/Default.htm
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Holy crap batman! That's the holy grail of "W210 How-To's".

Thanks again!
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