New Side Moldings
mrwagovan
familEE
I got some new side moldings in from Honda last week...(the black hard plastic/rubbery thing that goes around the car)
sorry for the lousy pictures, for some reason it kept coming out blurry than usual.
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Pardon..
Can i ask how much it cost you? I'm looking at getting new ones as well cause one is faded and one tiny piece is missing..
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Can't wait to see pics!
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Wow, just $160 + tax... Here in Fortress North (aka Canada) my dealer wants $107 for each door moulding...
Now that you've proven to me they can easily be removed, I'm thinking of popping mine off and repainting the entire door, shining up the rubber moulding and reinstalling it...
Any rust behind your mouldings when you pulled them off??
Cheers !!
P.S. It might be the computer I'm using but i can't see any of the pictures you posted...
If your interested let me know. Thanks!
here is the final cost to you:
$217.96 plus shipping..includes CA sales tax
you are talking about bumpers and for the bumpers it works Ok.
and that's exactly what i did first for the side moldings too and unless you totally remove all the moldings from your car it will drip like a mother and get all over the place thanks to gravity. i taped up around the moldings and sprayed it with that spray from the local Kragen and went to some abandoned yard and half way through sprayin' some ass called the cops on me because i was putting 'toxic fumes' up in the air..WTF?? so i peeled out when i saw them comin up the street.
anyway, to remove all the moldings without busting any of the clips is a biatch..some of that stuff has been on there since it came from the factory so naturally, it ain't comin off without a fight..and then you'll end up breaking one or two of the plastic clips off and it's all over.
just buy a new set if you really need one.
-for the bumpers it's ok..i did that and it worked out swell..the moldings is another story altogether.
Speaking from experience... it is impossible to remove the mouldings without breaking at least one clip. The problem I was having was with the bolt at the rear end of the moulding... the darn thing would not come loose... so I cut it off.
Then, I carefully remove the plastic insert that holds the bolt, install a new bolt, and reinstall. Voilà !!
As for getting new clips, I simply go to my local Honda dealership with the moulding and the clips I do have and purchase the missing ones.
Removing the mouldings enables me to really get at the rust (if any) and do a great job painting my wagon. It is curently battleship grey and will perhaps become red in the years to come. Who knows, the possibilities are endless...
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I broke all the clips off the mouldings (out of anger and on purpose), sanded them with 400grit paper on an orbital sander and sprayed. Worked amazing, no runs, great coverage, holding up great. Actually, out of the whole restoration, the moldings turned out the best.
That paint also works very well for doing the black around your windows and pretty much anything that is black trim, door handles too. Sanding is key. Don't be afraid.
To reinstall the moldings i used window urethane. and stuck them in place. It fills those little holes behind the molding where rust typically starts.
Downside, removing those moldings will probably never happen without completely destroying them... wait scratch that, a good bendy knife would make quick work of it.