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 Post subject: Bus door panel button safe removal
PostPosted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 5:35 pm 
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Anyone know a safe way to remove the chrome button fasteners to remove the front interior door panels on a split bus. I used a couple flat screw drivers and successfully removed a couple.... but I also snapped the heads off a few.

Also- I am missing a bunch and can't seem to find a place that sells them.


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 Post subject: Re: Bus door panel button safe removal
PostPosted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 8:48 pm 
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wolfsberg sells them not cheap .75 each when I bought last, but they dont come out easy
http://www.wolfsburgwest.com/cart/Detai ... 221867615a

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 8:57 pm 
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Who else carries them, I hate WW.

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 9:04 pm 
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 Post subject: Re: Bus door panel button safe removal
PostPosted: Sat Sep 29, 2012 12:09 pm 
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FLAPS have panel removal tools that would probably work better than two screw drivers.

AZ, for example, has these:

http://www.autozone.com/autozone/access ... l/_/N-26il


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 Post subject: Re: Bus door panel button safe removal
PostPosted: Sat Sep 29, 2012 3:47 pm 
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thingmon wrote:
FLAPS have panel removal tools that would probably work better than two screw drivers.

AZ, for example, has these:

http://www.autozone.com/autozone/access ... l/_/N-26il



Oh man those tools would have been perfect... thanks for the help guys. Bummer that I brute-forced it already, lost some good buttons in the process. I found that working the screw drivers under the panel itself seemed to pop them out the easiest.

I modified all the interior panels of the half bus and used the good buttons that were left. I think the interior is kinda rad now.....


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 Post subject: Re: Bus door panel button safe removal
PostPosted: Sat Sep 29, 2012 8:10 pm 
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Yowza. You'll be getting the K9 unit for sure. Hope you've de-CSI'd it thoroughly. Not for you, of course, but who knows what the PO's left behind.


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