Door Trim Repair

[SuspiciousPizza]

Coming home from work this weekend I smoked a deer. Luckily my headlight took the brunt of the impact but the deer spun around and caved in my driver side door. 

It ripped off some of the side protectors and damaged the protector on my door. I'm talking about the 2.5" wide black plastic pieces.

Are these pieces held on with plastic clips/rivets or maybe a double sided tape? How would one remove them?

I'll be installing a "new" door in the coming weeks and once I get my hood straightened out I'll be back on the road.

Next summer I'll get my door fixed and a buddy and I are going to repaint the car. I also will be welding a bull bar from chrome moly tubing so I don't have to worry about deer as much in the future.

Thanks :]

[el_freddo]

Those strips are held on with plastic clips. Best way to remove them is via the inside of the door by squeezing the tabs closed to let them slide out the hole. 

You don’t need a chime moly bullbar - that will fold something more substantial in the engine bay. What you want is a bullbar that will bend a bit as it absorbs the energy of the animal - thus saving other factory parts on the car that are harder to come by. 

Nothing is certain pin this though. Maybe a full exo-cage will do the trick, but where do you draw the line?

[SuspiciousPizza]

I've been looking at the rally Leones and their brush guards and I was thinking something inspired by that. Something that mounts to the bumper and wraps around the side to cover the running lights.

I'm buying a spare bumper from my parts guy so I don't have to modify my factory bumper.

I plan on using industrial rubber vibration dampeners (originally designed to be placed between heavy machinery and a concrete pad to absorb vibrations). Hopefully these will act as a bushing to absorb impact. Otherwise I'd have to figure out some sort of suspension system for it. The rubber dampeners seemed to be the simplest solution. 

Otherwise I could make the mount out of aluminum tubing and bolt that to the chrome moly guard. The aluminum would act as a sacrificial absorber.