Polo 6C door card reinstallation issues
Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2023 7:45 am
I took my Polo to get its windows tinted a few days ago. The place did not reinstall my door cards correctly. There were gaps as wide as my finger between the card and the door metal:
I managed to remove the door cards just fine. However, reinstalling them has been nothing but painful. Given the tint shop did not install the cards correctly, I believe they may have moved some of the clips around. Let me get into this:
Starting at the front doors, there are push-in clips that mate to the holes in the door which are very manageable to use: ^^these clips mate into the following holes: My issue is with the slide-in clips: ^^which mate into the following hole: The issue is… how am I meant to engage this clip!!! I cannot warp the door panel into engaging with it after trying for 30 minutes. My doubts about this clip come in where I see some YouTube videos show Polo 6R/C door removals that don’t even have this slide-in clip. They only have the above push-in clip. My only option right now appears to be to remove this clip entirely and try to reinstall the door card without it. However, I wish to do the job properly. Are both the push-in / slide-in clips in the correct place? ETKA and erWin don’t show exact positioning of the clips (to the best of my observation).
If anyone has any advice it would be greatly appreciated! Please let me know if I need to post more photos of anything specific or explain anything else. (I have the same issue with the rear doors, but I just want to get the front door cards reinstalled first).
I don’t trust them to reinstall it correctly without breaking more connectors (several had marks and little snapped plastic pieces all over the inner door assembly). I’m going to dispute this with them in a few days when I go back. For now, I wanted my door cards to be on correctly, so I removed them myself using the VW general interior repairs manual.I managed to remove the door cards just fine. However, reinstalling them has been nothing but painful. Given the tint shop did not install the cards correctly, I believe they may have moved some of the clips around. Let me get into this:
Starting at the front doors, there are push-in clips that mate to the holes in the door which are very manageable to use: ^^these clips mate into the following holes: My issue is with the slide-in clips: ^^which mate into the following hole: The issue is… how am I meant to engage this clip!!! I cannot warp the door panel into engaging with it after trying for 30 minutes. My doubts about this clip come in where I see some YouTube videos show Polo 6R/C door removals that don’t even have this slide-in clip. They only have the above push-in clip. My only option right now appears to be to remove this clip entirely and try to reinstall the door card without it. However, I wish to do the job properly. Are both the push-in / slide-in clips in the correct place? ETKA and erWin don’t show exact positioning of the clips (to the best of my observation).
If anyone has any advice it would be greatly appreciated! Please let me know if I need to post more photos of anything specific or explain anything else. (I have the same issue with the rear doors, but I just want to get the front door cards reinstalled first).