Is there an easy way to get the door panels off a 91 Firebird? I'm having a problem getting the trim off around the door handle. There's a round screw cover behind the handle, and a rectangular one right next to it with the bird logo on it. I can't seem to get these pieces off, even with a dental pick. All I've succeeded in doing was scratching the hell out of the trim.

Any ideas?

 

A picture would help here. I've removed mine a number of times.

 

Its not hard to remove the doorpanels, but I dont really know what your talking about either. Pic?

 

See the trim piece around the door handle and lock? That's what I'm talking about. There's 2 caps that go over the 2 screws that hold it on. One directly behind the inner handle, and another one to the left of it.

 

You will need to zoom in so I can show you exactly where you screwed up.

I know that wasn't nice. Don't ban me! I have the same panels and got them off with minimal damage!

 

usually what it is, is just a cap, with my 84 bird there one just one cap which poped right off, ( 2 lil clips on the back push one in and it pops right out) usually a flathead does the trick. Lucky you, you don't have a crank window, because i used to have one, until i switched it from crank to power. and for a few weekends in a row i had taken off and put back on the door insides. ANd when you remove the cap over the door handle (interrior) don't be afraid to use a lil bit Not much force to take it off, because it just barely fits as is. and when removing the insides, there are a bunch of clips holding the insides to the door, remove those first, and once done pull gently on the bottom to lift it towards you, the top has a couple clips securing it to the door. youll see when you get there its kinda hard to explain. Also the door lock just pops right off, its just 2 clips. hopefully that explains it for ya if not explain a lil more on your prob. (i nice zoom pic would be nice)

 

Zoom in on this the next time you take a pic:

 

Faded, I'm not complaining (or being sh---y with you so, don't take it as such) about you using my interior picture but, could you please remove the above picture linked directly from my site , I do pay for my bandwith.

To help, I believe these are the 2 cover being referred to, I've always been able to pop mine off with a eyeglass flathead screwdriver.

 

That's one way to do it. I used a turkey lacer because it leaves less of a mark when pried against the plastic...

 

Sorry deadbird, I didn't have access to a camera so I just looked around the forum quickly for a picture of what I was talking about, and yours happened to be the first one I found (from the 'what color is your interior' thread).