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Originally Posted by 78w72

thanks for the update on the panels. i didnt elongate the lower holes for the plastic push pins, mine seemed to align nice & didnt notice any upward push on the panel as a whole.

are you saying that by elongating those lower holes for the plastic push pins that will bring the whole panel down enough so that the top rail will fit tightly & securely to the top of the door like the GM ones do? doesnt something have to clip or hook onto the felt pads like the gm ones do in order to actually hold that top rail tight? i dont see anything on the PUI panels of a few years ago that would allow them to do that. there are 3 metal tabs that can be bent but they arent hooks of any sort & dont grab the felt pads like the gm ones do... i dont see those 3 tabs on the metal top rail in your pics, maybe they changed or removed them?

with the door open, are the top rail of yours tight like GM ones are? in other words, can you lift up on that top rail where the inner window seal strip or hole around the door lock is? mine will lift up there with the door open & every other set or PUI ive seen on other cars do the same thing. next time my door panels are off i will look at elongating the lower holes & try to get the side metal push pins to align better, but still dont see how the top rail will be secured to the top of the door.

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.