How to: Remove VE door trim (not dial-up friendly)

[TehFastyOne]

I was taking the door trim off this arvo to bung some new speakers into the ute so I thought I'd take some shots along the way. There's still a few people out there that are unsure about how to remove the door trim so here's a picture story for you. Enjoy.

VE SS V door trim - they're all the same type on the other models.

Tools you'll need are a Philips head screwdriver, a Jeweller's flat head screwdriver and a Torx T25 screwdriver (or the bit, whatever works for you)

Start by using the Jeweller's flat head on the small outlined plastic square behind the door handle. Be ready or it will fling out at 100 miles an hour into your face.

You should see a silver T25 screw behind it. Guess which tool you'll need for that...

Next, attack the two screws on the hinged side of the door

Take the three screws out at the bottom of the door

Take out the loner screw under the armrest - just feel around in there until your Philips has a grab on it.

Those are all the screws done, now start to pull from the bottom-hinge side corner of the door. It will be tight if the car hasn't been fiddled with after coming out of the factory.

Keep pulling around the top side of the door - most of it will come away easily.

Once the whole trim comes away, don't yank it all the way out! There's two wires going into the trim - that's for the lock and handle mechanisms. You need to disconnect these (next pic)

All done :clap: see not that hard was it?

 

[greenacc]

Nice work, great to see some VE how to's.

 

[TinSnips]

Nice post, mate. Good job!

 

[vicarious]

should be stickied to top of ve thread for other people asking the question

 

[UFO]

awesome mate thanks VERY much for taking time to post this step by step. plenty of info available online, but nothing with this many step by step pictures.... well done!!!!:clapping:

 

[TehFastyOne]

Thanks fellas

I'm going to do the front and rear bumpers sometime in the future. Although I've taken the rear bumper off already due to a rear ender so I'll have to reverse engineer the whole pictorial diagram of how to do it lol

If there's any other How To's you would like to see, I'll try to accomodate the request so long as it's not something like taking the bloody 8 out of the engine bay!!!

 

[UFO]

well since youre asking..... putting an amp in maybe ?

like wiring etc. im too chickenshit to try until I see some really detailed foolproof instructions. I break the new car and the mrs will make me sleep in it .

 

[Arai_R1]

Thank you, thank you, thank you! After having a VT and then a VU (both used and very confident in pulling apart)... I was extremely scared to start pulling apart my brand new VE SS ute which I've only had for a month now. Hopefully now I can piss off those $2 pieces of paper crap in there and get a decent sound!

 

[VrWagz1]

Good to see holden have stuck with the $0.00000001 trusty paper cone woofer. Dam thats tight.

 

[k3v0]

Thanks mate! this will be very handy for me soon