I am putting my car together from a pile of parts and have never owned an assembled FD so I am running into questions as I go.

Last night I put both of my interior door panels on. Everything went pretty well except for the little triangular pieces of trim that go where the rear view mirrors are on most cars (except on the inside of the door).

The driver's side piece in question goes on fine, but on the passenger side the piece does not fit. The cylindrical clip on the backside of this trim does not line up with it's hole at all....It is too high relative to the hole. I know that the door panel is positioned correctly in the vertical direction because all of the clips engaged properly and the holes lined up right for the grab handle....So that's not the problem.

Are there 2 different versions of this triangle trim piece? Maybe one for '93 (my car) and another for the later years. I know the door panels changed in '94 IIRC, and my door panels aren't original to the car. Could I be mixing parts that aren't supposed to go together?

thanks,
James

 

So nobody's got a clue about this?

 

Im installing my door panels as i type this. I dont really know if the panels are different, but i have a 94 and im using 93 panels.