Anyone here know how to remove the door pulls on a 2002 Cooper? I want to paint tham and my downtubes...

Thanks,
Justin

 

I believe you need to pull the door panel off. But you can check out this site for an exploded view of the MINI parts.

 

Thanks for the info...looks as if reside in the same area. I'm over by the Bagdad. Do you guys have a website for the PDX Mini club? Oops...I guess your in Bend...

 

LOL yep. Get to live in the hot spot.

The PDX club website is www.pdxmini.org.

 

As I remember it's not an easy job. In fact it might be a nightmare.

 

Ha! I finally have useful info!

1. Remove the small white reflector on the top corner of the door.

2, Unscrew the 4 torx head bolts on the door.

3. Start at the bottom of the door with something small and plasctic to begin prying the panel off. there will be plastic clips on the sides and bottom and metal hangers at the top. The panel simply pops off

4. The tweeter and door pull are in the same unit, retained by 3 phillips head screws. once they're off remove the wire going to the door pull and the wire to the tweeter.

After that your have the pull and tweeter together, you could further remove the pull itself or mask the rest of it and spray it right there.

wow, now thinking about it i hope you talking about the inner ones...

 

thought it was outer, but not sure....

 

it's not bad. I did my driver's door and am going back in tomorrow to swap it and the passenger's side for a spare set I painted off the car (when I wasn't in a hurry to get it all back together).

Taking the door panel off is the easy part. The challenging part is getting up inside the outer skin to loosen the two bolts. The window is in the way so you have to squeeze your hand in between it. It helps to drill a pair of holes in the inner skin and putting a light in the bottom of the door to help you see what you are doing.

 

is he talking about the inside or outside? this is confusing

 

maybe he's talking about the door panels themselves

 

since he's talking about spraying the downtubes, im thinking hes asking about the interior.