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Screens out, side channel trims off (handful of screws),
Rear quarter trims off (unclip) and that's it.
Sunroof meeans headlining out and sunroof cassette out (all straightforward, just more effort).
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Gotta love this forum .....All very straightforward..... Just pop the screens out ..... like you are whipping out a pair of contact lenses.
Turning a £300 tidy-up job for anyone practiced with a spraygun into a specialist job that will inevitably require a new screen and its trims, all of which will add another £1000.
As for the sunroof, why
remove it when you can just open it and mask inside the vertical edges?
I do prefer to remove rather than mask, but reality means that certain parts stay in place and bonded in screens are always at the top of that list.
When I did this,
removing
and replacing the side glass took less time than masking around it for a good result would have done. Same applies to the back bumper; removing it meant undoing four M6 bolts which is easier and quicker than masking it. And meant I could flick some body colour over the repairs to the rear valence.
The whole car is covered in one sheet of body mask, with the quarter panel and sill cut out and edges taped down, which took about five minutes. The B-pillar is masked - by covering with tape and cutting the raised edges with a scalpel - because I didn't want to replace the stick on black trim. What I should have done with this job, because it included painting the replacement front wing, was strip the mirror, door handle and drop glass trim and paint the door as well.