Removing Door Pins..

[DJDannyB]

I have tried to help my mate take out his door pins on his Desire 1.1 52 plate tonight and had no luck. we got both door cards off and cut a hole in that sound proof stuff so we could get ours hands in but cant get the pins out. i have read the how to guide on the site but still cant get them out. i can find the little plastic socket which the pin sits in and i have pushed the pin out of the socket but the pin still isnt free so i can pull it all the way out. once i have detatched it from the socket it no longer moves up and down with the central locking but just wont pull out. anybody have any advice on how i can get it out??

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[Crunkers]

It twists if I recall correctly. If you can't be sacked with that just cut them

[DJDannyB]

right ok mate cheers. ill give them another go tomoz when hes home from work.

[Crunkers]

right ok mate cheers. ill give them another go tomoz when hes home from work.

No worries mate, they are a ho on the mk2 models I'm afraid lol

[DJDannyB]

oh shit ive just relised. in the how to guide it says something about undoing the door lever on mk2's. do i need to undo the inside door lever and disconnect it from there :S or just twist and fuck about with the pin until it comes out?

[Xsi16v_Jk]

you don't need to un done the door handle mate, i used a pair of pliers to unclip the pin from the white socket it sits in.
Got annoyed but deep breaths lol

:)

[DJDannyB]

lol ok cheers mate. is the socket the little plastic clip with the hole in? just making sure im moving the right thing haha.

[Xsi16v_Jk]

you got it mate. you will noticed when you get them out they bend at the bottem - this is where it sits in the clip.
best of luck bud

[adamm]

mines mk2 and got it out fine just cut a hole in coulldt even see what i was doing wiggled it about abit until it came takes a few seconds.

[b7lee]

were having no luck with these> we got them out of the white socket but there still stuck in somehow

anyone have any ideas?

[LSOfreak]

isnt the point of depinning so you remove the whole metal rod so that a theif cant put a coat hanger from the outside and hook the rod up?

[stu-n-shell]

i did mines a peace of piss just took the 3 40torx skrews out of the lock dropped that down uncliped it in the light so i could see the re did the skrews door panel back on job done took about 15 min for both doors

[Xsi16v_Jk]

i suppose people have found different ways of doing it.

just a case of trying and trying now. :)

[DJDannyB]

eventually got them off tonight after 2 hours of fucking about. it wasnt even us that got them out, it was my girlfriend!!! i was amazed. after she had done them both, the passenger side door wouldnt lock! so we then tried to fix that, and in the end it got fixed...by who? my girlfriend again. i cant believe it! we mayaswel of give her the keys and the screw driver and let her do it all from scratch lol.
anyways, job done!

[LSOfreak]

did you just remove the pins or the whole rod itself

[DJDannyB]

the whole pin. its only about 9inch long with a small curve at the bottom

[Roper]

yeah black plastic at the top and steel pin going down, yeah about 9inchs long with bends and curves in it. :y:

[DJDannyB]

yeah black plastic at the top and steel pin going down, yeah about 9inchs long with bends and curves in it. :y:

yeah..yeah, yeah!