Its scary doing this for the first time, but I've done it close to 10 times, seems to be everything I do starts with taking these bad boys off
Open doors engine hood and hatch
Step 1: According to the Nissan Service Manual, disconnect your battery and place it at lest 10ft from the car.
Step 2: VERY carefully pry off the B pillar, there are three prongs, this just pops off but you need to put your pry bar at each of these prongs to pop it off.
Step 3: pull down the black moulding, it will be taped in, so you need to pull down very hard, take note of exactly how this is attached to the silver bar (when your pulling it down you will see this) once you have the silver bar fully exposed:
Step 4: Unscrew all the screws holding this silver bar in place including the one behind the B pillar bar.
Step 5: pull the pillar bar twords you to siengage all of the pop out fasteners, stet at the trunk and move forward
Step 6: you have to pop out the pillar bar trim from the piece of plastic by the windshield wipers and next to that there will be a blue fastener which is your last fastener holding the pillar bar in
Step 7: you pull the pillar bar out carefully in a twisting motion to disengage the fastener and out comes the pillar bar
You can drive around without the pillar bars on and most water doesn't leak into your car, I drove 40 miles in rain to the shop with these off and i didn't leak.
Putting this all back is easy, just make sure you engage every fastener and put the moulding back in place and engage it into the silver bar, without doing this correctly you will leak.
Disclaimer: The first 2 times I was doing this i didn't know what I was doing and my car leaked. I quickly figured out what I did wrong and since then all 6 times I've had the pillar bars off and on, I am not leaking at all. If you pay attention to the details and remain patient, you can take this entire car apart and back together (not engine) with no squeaks or leaks.
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