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Originally Posted by PDC
This gets a bit confusing - and its my fault for not taking better dedicated pictures of this issue. If you look at the picture I posted of the back side of the original GM upper panel and he PUI upper panel you will see along the bottom edge of the PUI upper door panel, there are 5 round holes. These are the holes where the plastic tabs on the lower door panel push through and attach with those flat plastic clips so that the upper and lower door panels form one, full size panel (in 2 pieces).
On the original GM upper panel, you can see that the holes are rectangular slots so there is room for the lower plastic panel to slide up and down in the slots increasing or decreasing the overall height of the completed panel when the 2 pieces are attached.
I had to ‘slot’ the round holes in the PUI panels so that the lower plastic panel could slide up relative to the upper panel - like it could with the original GM panel. This allowed me to position the lower door panel in the bottom of the door without shoving the upper door panel up and off the top of the door. I hope that all makes sense. I did not see any sort of fastening tabs to secure the upper rail of the upper PUI panel to the top edge of the door. But once everything was attached, the hard rails of the PUI panels stay secure to the top of the door.
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ok i did misunderstand which holes you elongated. but on mine, when they were all assembled as 1 piece & i went to put them on the door, i didnt notice the panel really being pushed up any, or at least not enough to cause what i described for the top rail. on mine there are 3 tabs about 1/2"x1/2" that you can bend down or they come mostly flush but are cut out by PUI for some reason. i will have to remember this thread for when i remove mine i can post a pic of them & maybe even show how the top rail just kind of flops around if the door is open, seen it on many other cars too over the years too.
maybe PUI changed that top rail somewhat to fix or help the top rail fitment because i dont see & you confirmed those tabs arent there on yours.