How do you remove windshield trim clips?

[zerfetzen]

Assuming of course you can't use a screwdriver...

Do I use a drill?  There's gotta be a better way.  Thanks.

[tan top]

just un screw them   ...... unless some dude has been there before & pop riveted them  on  ... oh wait i'm assuming  that you have already removed the glass

[zerfetzen]

Yep, the glass is out of course, but I can't unscrew them because the screwdriver just strips 'em.  These are the only screws left on the car, and of course where the screwdriver has failed.

[chgr500]

Just gently hit the screw side to side slightly with a flat punch or something before trying to remove them...they generally screw right out after that...you can fit a small pair of visegrips on the stripped screws after tapping on them...good luck

[hemi-hampton]

What I like to do to the rusty stripped out ones is take my die grinder or cut off wheel & cut a big nice notch in head of screw, The Vibration seems to loosen it also, then use a Straight screwdriver. works 9 out of 10 for me. LEON.

[zerfetzen]

Thanks guys, I'm sure that'll work.  Cheers.

[jaak]

What I like to do to the rusty stripped out ones is take my die grinder or cut off wheel & cut a big nice notch in head of screw, The Vibration seems to loosen it also, then use a Straight screwdriver. works 9 out of 10 for me. LEON.

This is how I do it too, it works!

Jason

[Charger-Bodie]

I usually take a GOOD phillips screwdriver , hold it firmly into the screw,  while applying slight twisting pressure ,tap on the screwdriver handle with a hammer......Then if that doesnt work I drill them out.


How can you cut a slot in a screw that has almost no head?  Those screws are very flat. Ive done the cut a slot method many times , but by the time you'd have a slot deep enough for a screwdriver in a W/S clip screw the head would be cut in half. 

[Back N Black]

I removed my with a impact screw driver.