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Originally Posted by Gawernator
They protect you from door dings  They don't look bad either, my 83 had them, and I just slightly prefer more the look without them on my 86. |
They don't seem like they only protect against little bumps and not giant dings from people who fling their door open as fast/hard as possible.
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Originally Posted by Aussie944S
Only held at the ends with a rivet the rest is glued from what it looks
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Originally Posted by 962porsche
if your talking about your body side moldings ?
there is no glue or screws ,
on the later cars just one rivets on the door edge and dubble sided tape .
on the early cars no rivets and just dubble side tape .
if you have a rivet drill off the head and then with a eraser wheel remove the dubble sided tape . with luck if you use a heat gun and heat up the molding as you remove it the dubble sided tape will stay on the molding .
the thing to check for is that the car still has it's original finish . if the car had any of it's panels repainted and they did not remove the moldings to paint then there will be a out line of the molding when you remove it .
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Do the rivets go through the doors or are they glued to the outside of the doors and the strips kinda snap on or something like that? If they go through the door then the moldings are definitely staying on.
I am fairly certain the car has been poorly repainted. There is over spray in areas that I think the factory would have been more careful about, the stone guards are painted blue instead of black, and it's about 3 different shades of blue.
I'm not too concerned about damaging the paint because I'm going to have it painted anyways.
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Originally Posted by grendiers
Careful if you use a paint scraper, they actually are capable of removing paint!
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In my research it says I need 3M adhesive remover, a plastic scraper, and patients, so I think I'll try that first. I have two of those things. I just need to learn the other...