Door Trim

[Jonah]

I was washing my car over the weekend (although it doesn't look like it now) and noticed the trim at the bottom of the drivers door has come away in the middle, no visible marks that someones door or anything else might have damaged it, I was wondering how these are fixed, clips or bonded?
Has anyone else had this issue?

[dominic1]

happened to me, car was sold with it like that , sorry

[Jonah]

Did the buyer not notice it?

[henryhale2704]

I have exactly the same issue on mine, there are 2 retaining screws at the end of the door (from memory), undo those and the trim then just slides off. I still haven't got around to going back to Audi to have a moan and see if it'll be covered by them....

[Jonah]

So am I right in thinking the trim has just warped?

So in theory, if I unscrew, slide off, add some VHB double sided tape and refit, this should solve the issue.

I mentioned it to Audi when it went in for a service last week, they said bodywork isn't covered and to speak to a bodyshop.

[steveyb]

I had the same issue. This trim piece is a plastic moulding which has a steel plate inside it. The steel corrodes inside the plastic and starts to delaminate, then pushes the plastic out of shape.
Not covered by warranty, but a friendly dealer may do you a deal and throw in a bit of goodwill. Remember you'll need to get the replacement part sprayed to match your car as they don't come pre-coloured.

[Jonah]

Thanks for the info steveyb, what sort of cost am I looking at?

[steveyb]

I think it was about £80 for the part and around £20 to spray it. I had mine done free of charge because of a number of other issues I was 'discussing' with them at the time.

[tempo]

jonah, same happened too mine on drivers side, got a qoute from audi hull, £180. 50% goodwill from audi
so i should be looking at around £90. getting fitted thursday.goodwill was because car has only covered 21,000 miles.