Door Mouldings

[big boy stevie]

hi guys how do the exterior door mouldings come off im looking at colour coding mine as have loads of polish marks on them that wont come off and look very untidy, are they on clips or glued dont want to break them off and does anyone have any good pointers on how to remove them ie best place to start or tools to use.

 

cheers guys

steve

[Mirez]

They are glued on with extreamly sticky stuff! If you really really really really want to remove them then you'll need a lot of heat to get the strip and glue as hot as possible, then some fishing line to slide behind and then peel them off. You'll then need a good 3 or 4 bottles of some kind of "sticky stuff" remover, and about 2 hours per door.

 

Its much easier to mask the car off and pain them in situ! An IPA solvent will remove the polish marks and get it ready for priming.

[big boy stevie]

yes was thinking of painting in situ done it on my toyota mr2 as the bolts normally snap, used a credit card to get tape behind mouldings and came out quite well, on the car it is then if i feel brave i think if not have to chat up my painter see how much he will charge me no rush more important thing like cambelt first.