2002 Freelander 1 Door Card Clips

Hi All, new to this forum, so apologies for any incorrect syntax.

My daughter has a 2002 Freelander 1 2.0 TD4 and I have just replaced a door lock actuator and a window regulator - all common faults with the dear old Landy! While this procedure went well, a couple of the door card clips got broken. I have purchased some MWC9134 replacements, but for the life of me I cannot seem to figure out how to remove the head of the original clips from the door card. I am probably missing something extremely simple, but it is passing me by at the moment. If anyone could give me some advice on how to replace these I would be very grateful.

If they’ve snapped off you can put a little screw into it, you can then grab that with a pliers and pull it out.

RangeRoller dt said:

If they’ve snapped off you can put a little screw into it, you can then grab that with a pliers and pull it out.

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Many thanks for the reply. While I see this could work if the snapped clip was being removed from the door panel itself, I cannot quite understand how it would work removing the snapped clip from the door card? My reasoning for this would be that if it were as simple as screwing in a screw and pulling it out, then this would naturally occur when removing the door card from the door panel, or am I being particularly dim here? Throughout my career I have come across snapped door card clips and they are quite simply attached to the door card through a hole and then slotted down into a groove. However, the Freelander door card does not appear to have this arrangement. Again, perhaps I am being a little dim.

They slide off, I thought u meant the other side.

The one end (I thought) pushes in, the round bit has a groove on one side that slides over a pin in the card.
Look at the new ones you have you will see on the head

Don’t feel stupid, is little things like this catch everyone out at somepoint with a LR.

That why we have a ‘no such thing as silly questions’ rule.
Still there are ones that don’t apply to this rule

Perhaps you have the wrong clips??

Won’t hurt to ask in the FL section just quote the rule

RangeRoller dt said:

They slide off, I thought u meant the other side.

The one end (I thought) pushes in, the round bit has a groove on one side that slid
es over a pin in the card.
Look at the new ones you have you will see on the head

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RangeRoller dt said:

Perhaps you have the wrong clips??

Won’t hurt to ask in the FL section just quote the rule

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Aaah yes, now you point it out I can see the groove. Many thanks RangeRoller, should be able to replace them easily now. Just as a matter of interest, what is the nut shaped bit for in the middle of the clip? I assume now that you have explained the pin and groove, it helps turn the head on the pin to fix into the card?

Aaah yes, now you point it out I can see the groove. Many thanks RangeRoller, should be able to replace them easily now. Just as a matter of interest, what is the nut shaped bit for in the middle of the clip? I assume now that you have explained the pin and groove, it helps turn the head on the pin to fix into the card?

Apologies for the duplicated post.

Hello and welcome

brianp38dse said:

Hello and welcome

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Thanks, hoping to gain some valuable information from extremely knowledgeable Landy owners.

Only nuts I see is you, me and Brian

RangeRoller dt said:

Only nuts I see is you, me and Brian

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Well I cannot speak for you and Brian, but I certainly am slowly going nutty - but there is definetly a hexagonal between the door card and the fixing point that goes into the door panel. On further reflection it might just be a spacer type of thing, but no idea why it should be hexagonal. BTW, these are the original clips, or at least the ones that were affixed to the card when I removed it. Hey ho, perhaps I dreamt it.

I’m only going on the part number (same as a RR) you specified.

FL section will know your model type exactly.
Good luck

RangeRoller dt said:

I’m only going on the part number (same as a RR) you specified.

FL section will know your model type exactly.
Good luck

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Appreciate that and all the help you have provided. Will try FL for any further variants of the clips. Cheers. John.

You are most welcome

https://www.landyzone.co.uk/forum/land-rover-freelander.9/

From what I can see an FL1 should indeed have these door card pins

Wonder if a previous owner has glued them
on or something strange like that?

Personally I would carefully cut the old ones off with a sharp Stanley JUST THE BIT YOU ARE REPLACING
You will only need one to see what is happening, pick a less important one like along the bottom to test

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