Front door repairs

Last thing to come off the door is the top leatherette trim, this is held in place with a two piece finisher which clip together. As always being dissimilar metals, stainless steel on mild steel, a fair amount of corrosion occurs between the two. In hindsight a soak with wd40 eases the separation. A small gasket scraper does the job nicely to ease away the top stainless trim to reveal 7 pozidrive screws which secure the base of the trim. Once removed the leatherette can be pulled away from a glued strip of felt in the recess. It also revealed the usual stress fractures in the top corners of the door skin.

Removing top trim

Stress fractures

All that remains is the door lock mechanism secured by 3 screws, the lock barrel held in place by a horseshoe clip and the exterior door handle with 2 m6 nuts.
Off now to be chemically stripped and phosphate coated before repairs start.