The trim around the window/lock switches were painted an off shade of greyish black at some point in their lives, and by now it's rubbed off and is starting to fade in spots, so i'm going to lightly sand and and re finish them. Before i go break something, how do i properly remove the trim?

 

It just pops out look for the led writeup threads for howto disassemble and duplicolor has the exact match paint for the trim BNS0604 precision gray W40 is the color

 

Oh perfect, thank you so much!

 

So i went with the it just pops out method, i pulled it up a little with my fingers and stuck a flat edge in there, when i pull it just moves up a quarter inch. Do i just need to keep pulling?

 

Yep. It SHOULD just be in there with clips. Unless the PO superglued it in there for some reason...

 

Front then back

 

****. I really wish i had read this earlier, i went back then front and the clip ripped a large chunk out of the surrounding area.

 

Whoa boys, there' s screw in that...

The grab handle piece has a little plastic cover pop that out with a small flathead and you'll see a Phillips (star) screw, remove it, then the whole thing comes off, unplug the Master switch/window switch.

You can further disassemble by removing the 3 screws that hold the Master switch tot he trim piece.

 

Thanks Tuner, I ended up finding the screw under the little rubber plug. Going to completely take it apart and out after school today. Should have it sanded and primed by tonight or tomorrow. I'll take a few pics invade anyone's curious.

 

Incase, not invade. stupid iPhone auto correct. Can't even edit my posts to fix it...

 

NP glad I caught it before someone broke their trim

 

Yeah Definetly. Although the wood around the clip on the front ended having a chunk ripped out of it. Going to have to repair that aswell

 

I totally forgot about the screw. And I had the door panels off of my car hundreds of times when I owned it.

I guess it's because in the last year that I've owned my Infiniti, I've taken its door panel off about a hundred times as well. And there's no screw to be found in the window switch trim.

 

Alright stupid question: how does the switch wiring disconnect?

 

Nevermind found the clips.

 

your actually supposed to remove the screw, and pop away the back side first(closest to the rear) pull up,then back. when replacing, reverse the steps by sliding the front side in first the push down, i have the same greyish paint on mine which i can run a my lail gently along and actually scrape off the soft greyish paint. best way to clean them up is by removing the switch completly from the bezel, wet sand wit 800 grit, removing all paint ( so when u apply new paint it doesnt wrinkle) clean it good with a degreaser then prime it, scuff it and paint it, i painted all mine the same color, then cleared them as well, right after that, i painted down my drivers side and had the bezel hanging in the door for easy acsess to roll up and down the window, when i shut the door i snapped it in half right in between the pocket slot! i ended up shaving the pocket out of it so its completley flat and wrapped it in a flat black vinyl! looks clean! but, its a pain to close that door from the inside! im contemplating doing the rest because i like the no pocket look, but everyone who gets in my car sits there for a couple seconds wondering where to grab from to close the door hahahah!

 

^ good instructions on removal above! Great post.

Sucks to hear about breaking the trim piece though, I almost did that a few times with misc stuff, always disconnect it and put it somewhere safe!!!

 

yea i should of had it off and plugged it in when needed, thats what cuttin corners does for ya! lesson learned on that one!

 

Looks so much better than i thought. pics coming.

 

it's not a very good picture, as it looks almost white when in reality it's satin nickel. but here;

 

looks great!

 

Looks fine from the pics nice work!