I have to remove mine to swap them out with the new ones but I forget how they're attached to the car. I remember the plastic ones being attached with
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02-25-2013, 08:41 PM | #1 (permalink) |
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Does anyone remember how illuminated kick plates attach?
I have to remove mine to swap them out with the new ones but I forget how they're attached to the car.
I remember the plastic ones being attached with little plastic grommets and I just sorta worked around the edge of the kick plate underneath the weather seal until they popped up. Ideas?
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Two pop grommets, one at each end and 3M tape in the middle where the third factory grommet used to be.
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Yeah I did it before on my old Z but it has been a while. Picking up the car late tonight from D&V so I probably won't get around to messing with the kick plates until this weekend.
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These are your new kick plates that you had custom done? you havent turned them on yet?
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So I went to pop these out last night and...they wouldn't pop out. I took a screwdriver wrapped in electric tape and tried to pry them off and they wouldn't budge. I don't want to break my old ones if I can help it or worse, end up with the grommet breaking off inside the car.
Suggestions?
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02-28-2013, 09:53 AM | #8 (permalink) |
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No. Like I said, I went to pop the old ones off and they didn't come off easily. Want to avoid damaging the paint on the running boards if I can.
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Hey DM, can you post pics of it?
I want to see how well (hopefully) my buddy hooked you up
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Lol, I just wanna know if the metal came out straight or had any dents of any kind, but I guess I'll wait........
You Better be devoting 8 hours a day to this project dammit!!! LOL
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02-28-2013, 10:39 AM | #12 (permalink) |
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No dents or warps in the metal. He did a very good job. Actually had a mini heart attack when I took them out of the box because it looked like there was a huge crease in one of the aluminum pieces (turned out it was the protective plastic covering)
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Awesome!
To anyone else, he does good work!!! But you gotta pay him, or bribe him more than DMHenderson
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I'm just saying that in that WTB thread, I thought I saw someone say that they'd pay $50, lol So maybe he'd be back in for $50?
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