Speaker grill removal from door panels

[JustA5.0]

Heya

Long story short, I have a pair of black door panels that I will not be using except for the speaker grilles. I'd simply rip them off, however these panels look brand new, and being black should fetch some coin. I don't care about the 6 plastic pal nuts getting damaged (50resto carries em), but I want to avoid damaging the door panel in anyway.

Should I simply use a pair of pliers and crunch those pal nuts to bits, or is there another good method?

 

[black87ttop]

why dont you just use the panel? Or find a junk set to rip the grills off. Nobody will wnat them without the grilles.

 

[JustA5.0]

Two reasons:
Power
I'm going with a two tone theme in my car, and already have custom panels made.

These were free to me, so if they don't sell, oh well. I figure there are more black speaker grilles out there, then mint condition o/e door panels these days

Now that that's cleared up, anyone have some ideas for removing the grilles.

 

[Mustang5L5]

5.0 resto sells brand new black grills i think.

To be honest, i'd sell em as is and buy a new set of black grills

 

[JustA5.0]

^^^ That has crossed my mind, but being in Canada after duties etc... they're a bit more than $40. I'll probably try selling em whole first, if they don't I'll separate the grilles (and spend $6+ for the nuts).

I figured others had removed intact speaker grilles before, seems every other fox door card I look at those pal nuts are no longer present, and they just fall off.

 

[Mustang5L5]

Mine never had nuts. The plastic posts were melted over to keep them from pulling through the panels

 

[JustA5.0]

I guess this kit that resto sells the nuts in, are added protection to keep your speaker grilles secured by the posts. I got to thinking tonight, there's no way all these door panels I looked at didn't have a single nut (looked at many in the boneyards before finding good gray ones).

That's a good trick 5L5, I think I'll do that if I transfer these grilles to my customized panels.