The best is if you get the right tool for this job.  It goes around the
button and pops it up without damage if you do it right.
Zoltan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Salicos" <Tom@SALICOS.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 6:52 PM
Subject: Re: removal of rear door panel

> Having shreaded a panel that had been on for many many years, and ripped a
> fastener out of the thin pressed wood of a relatively new panel, I'm
> thinking the fasteners get kind of stuck to the sheet metal of the hatch.
> So I wonder if tapping on them and working on either side of the fastener
> to
> try and gradually work them out might be better than than just *popping*
> them out.
>
> A very stout kitchen spatula or two might be the ticket.
>
> Tom Salicos
> '87 Syncro Westy EG-33
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Goubeaux" <john@UCSB.EDU>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 1:45 PM
> Subject: removal of rear door panel
>
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Can someone give me a little insight as to the best way to pop off the
>> panel that covers the rear door on a vanagon. Ie i need to get to motor
>> for the rear windshield wiper. The plastic (i assume push in)
>> snaps/fasteners are stubborn. Is it best to use a flat tool and slide it
>> under the panel, popping the whole thing as I go?
>>
>> There has to be a proper technique so as not to mash up the panel?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> -john
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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