DOOR CARDS

[1 GTI]

How hard are the front door cards to get off the GTI? My front passenger speaker is crackling slightly and it's starting to annoy me. New speaker needed most prob. Cheers

[Si_GTi]

Pretty simple to remove to be honest.

Open the door fully. Look at the front of the door card (that faces the front wing when the door is closed) and you will see a screw that can be undone and removed.

Then carefully remove the plastic insert on the interior door handle (they're quite flexible so try not to bend them too much) and you will find two more screws that need to be undone and removed.

Once all three are out, the door card can be lifted off, taking care to remove things like the switch panel for the electric windows.

I can get you some pics if you like

[thedees1]

How hard are the front door cards to get off the GTI? My front passenger speaker is crackling slightly and it's starting to annoy me. New speaker needed most prob. Cheers

5 min job, prise the cover off the door handles take the screws out then just pop the door card off all the way around.

[1 GTI]

Cheers peeps

[polo power]

ye as above realy simple task.

[M666 BJW]

I'm glad its that easy as i need to get round to doing this soon as well. I need to change both grab handles and covers for both doors. Once the door card is off i presume taking the grab handles off is a straight forward case of undoing some more screws.

[thedees1]

I'm glad its that easy as i need to get round to doing this soon as well. I need to change both grab handles and covers for both doors. Once the door card is off i presume taking the grab handles off is a straight forward case of undoing some more screws.

yup about 4 screws on the back of the handles, done my handles a few weeks back and they look much better

[Tony B]

TheDees1, how much and where did you get your handles from mate?.....sure like most here, mine look well tatty and could do with replacing

[M666 BJW]

TheDees1, how much and where did you get your handles from mate?.....sure like most here, mine look well tatty and could do with replacing

I got mine from my main dealer and the covers cost £3.06 each and the handles cost £11.10 each....thats including VAT too. Mine are very tatty so was a must to replace them will look so mcuh better when i get around to fitting them.

[thedees1]

TheDees1, how much and where did you get your handles from mate?.....sure like most here, mine look well tatty and could do with replacing

Bout a tenner, got them from the local dealer, There is a 3rd plastic bit aswell that i wanted to replace on the passenger side, its the wee bit that is the cover for the electric mirror switch

[M666 BJW]

TheDees1, how much and where did you get your handles from mate?.....sure like most here, mine look well tatty and could do with replacing

Bout a tenner, got them from the local dealer, There is a 3rd plastic bit aswell that i wanted to replace on the passenger side, its the wee bit that is the cover for the electric mirror switch

Thats the bit i forgot to buy but on the passenger side mine isn't noticably different unless up close. I managed to change the handles during my lunch break and it really isn't that difficult.....hardest bits was balancing the cards as i disconnected the electrics