Im removing the trim on the bottom of the door. I know its riveted to the bottom of the door..are there any other rivets?..or is that it and its just like glued to the door with that adhesive crap?

 

it's neither glued nor riveted. The ground effects piece has 5 or 6 threaded studs that go through holes in the door, and hold on with speed nuts (tin nuts) from inside the door.

Look in your door, and at the edges you'll see a rounded-over acorn nut right along the edge of the door skin in the front, and another in the back. I believe these will be 12mm or 13mm nuts. Then after you take off the door panel, you'll find 3 or 4 more that you need to access with an extention through the specific inner door openings. These I believe are 11mm nuts. Take off all 5 or 6 and the piece will come right off the door.

 

what bout the rivets on the bottom of the door..i believe there are like 6- 8 of them...i know they are a part of the trim piece...they hold it from the bottom..

 

Uh, no. If yours has rivets, then it's because somebody decided to butcher your car.

The only thing that should be holding that piece on to your door is the 5 nuts.


In this pic you can see at the extreme edges of the door are the two black nuts that I referred to before, and in the inner door area, you can see 3 round access holes to get to the remaining 3 nuts. That's all that holds the panel on.

Perhaps the 91-92 door pieces are held on in a drastically different manner? What year is your car?

 

yea its a 92 and no its deff not butchered...deff looks factory. ill go get a pic..
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ah wait wait i see whats going on here...those rivets hold the plastice ground effect onto the BRACKET that bolts to the door...so yea i just gotta remove the nuts then and then bracket and ground effects shoud..fall off heh

 

ah crap...well i got the three inside the dorr...but it looks like the outer corners arent nuts...

 

on my ground effects, the studs went right into the fiberglass. There was no "bracket".

 

yea i got it off...it was mounted the way you guys were saying...but the plastic parts were riveted to a metal bracket that was then bolted to the door. Well anyway thanks for all the help guys