So here is the passenger door panel. I tried something new this time around.
Maybe you have seen those magic markers that write in metallic silver and gold? My wife happened to have one of those in the kitchen drawer that we had used to write on a champagne bottle as a gift to friends for New Years. I grabbed that Silver Magic Marker and applied it liberally to all of the round plastic holes in the door for the metal push-clips that go on the back of the door panel.
Then I dropped the PUI door panel into the ‘ideal’ position with no clips attached - and pressed the panel against all the plastic anchors in the door - that were doused with silver magic marker. That left distinctive silver ‘rings’ on the back of the PUI panel where the clips needed to be centered. That allowed me to lengthen / enlarge a couple of the holes as necessarily to allow me to position the metal clips exactly where the needed to be in order to be centered with the round silver marks left by pressing the new panel against the door.
It worked like a charm. The first ‘test fit’ was perfect with literally no additional monkeying around.
FWIW - I did need to lengthen the round holes along the bottom of the PUI panel into ‘slots’ to allow the anchors and clips for the lower door panel to slide ‘up’ relative to the upper panel. This allowed the plastic pins on the back of the lower door panel fit the holes in the door without shoving the upper door panel up and off the top rail of the door.
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