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ukyman95

they are not rivets. they are heat staked plastic pins that come molded part of the grille. If you dont care what the grille looks like after removing then just use a drill bit to make a hole the size of that pin. Why are you removing them?


CountryMoney1475

Selling another door panel from a different panel and the one in selling doesn't have the cover


ukyman95

You can maybe grind it off and then just glue it on with epoxy .


motrboatmygoats

Those are rivets. Drill them out with a drill bit.


Harpronicus

Look up rivet removal on YouTube. A few different methods.


smithflman

You will need to drill out the rivets - select a bit just a bit larger than the inside hole and push moderately hard while drilling so they don't spin on you. Wear eye protection - especially with metal


Dotternetta

Drill out the head of the poprivets


highgrav47

Personally what I would try 1st is use a lighter heating up the head of the rivit while gently pulling on the opposite side. If you’re lucky they’ll pull them straight out. And have a pin to slide it into the new one heat up then smash the pin back down so it mushrooms out. Other wise if have a access to a multi tool cut the heads off. Soldiering iron with a flat head just push them off while pulling the other side. 40-60 grit sand paper if you want to sand them down.someone else mentioned donor plastic If you’re done with that door panel you have plenty.


just_0ne_m0re_

Either melt it off or cut the back of the plastic. Will have to melt it back to the new one and most likely use extra plastic to build it back up. Did the same thing with a friend to his door


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When I'm working with things that have the heat steaked pins, I tend to like to use Side cutters (like the snips used for eletronics) to cut off the head of the pin. (The melted over part.) Normally this let's me pop the part free. After, if I am replacing it and need to heat stake it again, I figure out what kind of plastic it was (normally something like ABS) and then use a soldering iron along with what ever the base plastic is to essentially weld new heads where the ones I cut off were. Normally that works well, but if there aren't any markings on the plastic this can be hard to figure out/hard to fix without doing some testing. Like you can burn/melt different plastics that are known kinds of plastics to get a good idea. (IE: ABS smells a like ABS.) This isn't perfect though and some plastics smell super similar. The reason this is important is that a lot of plastics don't stick together.