[priusowners]

Here's what we wanted in a non-available-for-Blue-Velvet 1SS Red-HOT door trim (with our available LPO white Bolsters):

Ooops--can't upload pics from Chebby.com?

Incorect file extension my Butt! OK here's the pics of what I did today--extensions be damned!

BTW-- GM FINALLY woke up & decided to market their own aftermarket markups--you can save w/ DIY--my red hots were from shopchevyparts.com around $208 w/ship (realize when you pay your dealer it includes install--ridiculous for my white bolster snap-ons but valid for Gen5-type you-grind the plastic-welds-off-& find-screws BS)

I'll upload the shop manual pages the service manager was so kind to print out when I do the driver's door tomorrow--does y'all believe it actually has a door-button removal SEQUENCE?
I was LMAO as I individually popped 'em with my trim tool--WTF, are these head bolts?

Door panel pull, 8 screws, new accent, use same screws:

Easy as built in Lansing AMERICAN apple pie,

Jeff (anyone get a service manual--URL in OM yields only up to 2015)

[Glen e]

Great pics, thanks

[priusowners]

Evidently the clips holding the top of the panel & window seal/wiper
to the door frame are meant to break or weaken upon disassembly.

Luckily (?) I'm an idiot (it took me awhile to figure out it was a D/S
door pictured & I was doing the P/S first & was confused for a bit!)
so I pulled the panel bottom away from the door frame & LIFTED it
off like the way 99% of my other cars work.

Therefore the clips (except for the forwardmost) stayed on the trim
panel, along with the seal/wiper. (the wiper is like a malleable strip
SO DON'T KINK IT UP when you pull it out--it can be straightened, tho)
Also--there's a lip on the rear part of the seal/wiper that should be put
OVER the metal edge of the frame--you'll see it.
Using a screwdriver & the trim tool get them off the panel & back into
their proper slots along the top edge of door frame.(PIC#1).

(OR--do it their way & let us know if you needed new fasteners)

Door opener cable is like a bike's depress white plastic button, pull
out enough to rotate cable 90 deg I lift ball out.

Male wiring harness connectors have a white "safety" which must be
pulled up BEFORE you push the button to release the connector (PIC2)

Waiting for my LPO S0V white bolsters(PIC3)


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[BradfordCamaro]

Awsome thanks.
Good info for those that just want to paint our stock ones and save a couple hundred.

[MGD]

And stop hitting your thumb with a hammer...

[TheVENOMZ]

My brain exploded from the grammar

[Shozu]

Those don't allow for the lighting strips do they?

[priusowners]

You guys are GREAT:

1) Didn't have to be born a Pisces (be 58 in March) to ABSOLUTELY KNOW
there'd be a "thumbnail" comment when I took those pics('89 Mustang LX
door hinge pin service--don't be jealous--a 4-banger that a friend gave to my son,
who stored it at his friends when he was done w/ it, then somehow it came back to me after 8 yrs)

2) Grammer was a surprise--yes, an English major cruelly sucked into Medicine
for 30 years 'til I finally escaped & retired. Don't get me wrong--helping people
is very rewarding--having Bosses, NOT

3) Was gonna go the paint-it route using Redline Red Tricoat Pearl (I'm a MOPAR guy at heart)
but no parts were available when I ordered 11/20/2015(Any of you see
that GM Dragon Green Metallic in person? WOW)

4) Now, DO I do something crazy electrically or paintwise w/ my stock accents? What'd you do?

Jeff & Family

[cmeJATT]

old thread bump..

thanks for the great DIY!

i wanted to swap to the red door insert and was trying to figure out how to remove them. soo seems as if i'll need to remove the door panels :(..