Spawlett
Member Since: 01 Sep 2014
Location: Reading
Posts: 16
  
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Hope you can help! can someone please give me as basic step-by-step guide to the removal of sidesteps on my D3
Thanks in advance
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 5th Apr 2017 5:33 pm |
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Red Merle
Member Since: 30 Aug 2014
Location: Liskeard
Posts: 7441
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1. Obtain replacement sill covers (as yours will now have dirty great big holes in them!).
2. Remove the two screws, at the leading edge of the rear wheel arch, that hold the rear end of the sill cover in place.
3. Remove the screw from the underside of the black plastic section at the bottom of the front wing.
4. Go under the sill and remove the three metal bolts that are exposed on the very bottom edge of the plastic sill cover (two at the very back and one at the front).
5. Undo the 6 nuts and washers that hold the underside of the running board to the three outriggers.
6. Lift off the running board.
7. Use a trim pry tool remove about seven trim pins and then their sockets from the underside of each sill.
8. Pull the top edge of the black plastic sill cover away from the painted sill (start at the rear wheel arch and work forward). There are lots of poppers that hold this in place and each can be reused.
9. Pull the very bottom edge of the black plastic sill over the bottom most part of each of the three outriggers.
10. Pull the whole sill cover towards the back of the car which, will disengage a connector at the very front in the process (anyone used to assembling Scalextric track will be familiar with this bit). Two people make this bit a lot easier.
11. Remove the cover completely.
12. Undo the remainder of the bolts holding the steel outriggers in place (8, from memory).
13. Cover the holes that you've left in the vertical steel faces of the sill with PVC tape.
Please DO NOT spear your skull on the steel outriggers when the running boards are removed and the outriggers are still in place!
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| 5th Apr 2017 7:31 pm |
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LT
Member Since: 31 Dec 2005
Location: South West
Posts: 23730
 
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As above. Red Merle has recent experience.   2006 D3 HSE (Original & still the best)-GONE
2010 D4 HSE (A bit bling)-GONE
2014 D4 HSE (Almost too bling)-GONE
2015 D4 HSE (A heated what?)-GONE
2016 D4 Landmark (Written Off)-GONE
2016 D4 Landmark (Surely the last!) PD1881 rims-GONE
2017 FFRR SDV8 Autobiography (now semi-retired)
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| 5th Apr 2017 8:58 pm |
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Red Merle
Member Since: 30 Aug 2014
Location: Liskeard
Posts: 7441
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| 5th Apr 2017 9:25 pm |
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Spawlett
Member Since: 01 Sep 2014
Location: Reading
Posts: 16
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Job done!
thanks guys,
very comprehensive instructions, well done!
Now to decide which new ones to fit, as the ones I removed were rotten as a pear!
Regards spawlett
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| 7th Apr 2017 5:25 pm |
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Red Merle
Member Since: 30 Aug 2014
Location: Liskeard
Posts: 7441
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Great!
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| 7th Apr 2017 8:29 pm |
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