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Originally Posted by workingonit
All my old trucks used trim screws, so did my Chevelle, and others, and I never had a bit of trouble with door cards (offhand, I can't tell you what my current vehicles use on theirs...I've not had any pull loose, ever).
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I don't have much experience with other door cards other than my Volvo 240 (RIP, Mrs Klankenborg) which used metal clips and three torx bolts hidden under the door pull. Never had any issue with anything breaking or the card coming off.
These flimsy clips are cost-reduction bs that have no place on any BMW.
I just spent an hour searching for the correct placement of the clips white vs gray and the consensus seems to be "it doesn't matter". But the one (ONE!) video showing the panel coming off that I believe had them in the right place (because the vapor barrier was still intact), which is as described above: the grays go on the leading (hinge) edge and the whites in the rest of them.
Update: right-side panel went on perfectly with the grays in the front and all broken ones replaced. Also DLA won't work if the window controller box is unplugged. One of my junkyard DLAs works in boht directions! The other is totally dead.