Is this a general purpose tool, say from FLAPS, or a VW tool?

Tom

----- Original Message -----
From: "Zoltan" <zolo@FOXINTERNET.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 7:52 PM
Subject: Re: removal of rear door panel

> 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
>
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>> 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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