I washed my car today and noticed that the side moldings on the passenger doors were starting to get faded (well actually yellowish) on top.

I thought about it in the past and just cant make up my mind, do you guys think it would look better with them on, off, or no idea?

 

I didn't vote, but I am also considering this. My car must has one (passenger side front door) that is the wrong color and it irritates me almost as much as the light blue pinstripes the first owner put on the spoiler and on the lower part of the doors...argh

 

I think removed side moldings with a spoiler look good, but if there's no spoiler...leave them on. I don't have a spoiler but mine were damn near brown, and everytime I waxed my car the wax would leave a haze on the molding. If I were you I'd get all the materials you need to get the GLUE off, then go one molding at a time, get the glue off, then going onto the next one. I took all mine off at the same time, and I still have a bunch of glue, and everytime I go to tackle it it looks so challenging I end up never starting.

 

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I think our car looks good with the trim on, but mine is starting to yellow also. Does anyone have pictures of there car with the trim off?

 

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well this is what i think if you were going for shaved handles and all
i would take the molding off. if not im not sure. Im going to shave my handles.
So the molding is coming off.Im even thinking of shaving the molding dip but
would realy like to see some pics of how that look before I do that But for sure the molding is coming down when i shave the handles.

 

I really like the way it looks on your car Chris (I forgot about that lol)


Time to go back to staring at Pezking4's car, he doesn't have the blue pearl/kit/wheels/etc

 

Did Yall Know You Can Get The Yellow Off The Moldings? Well At Least I Got It Off Mine. Pretty Hard Tho.

 

....... tips?

 

When it`s off with the kit, it look good

 

Leave em on, they protect your door from the annoying dings.

 

The only reason I left mine on is b/c dings are a problem in Vegas. Especially on windy days where the door catches wind like a sail!!!! I hate stupid people.

 

Take em off

 

The Maxima is the only car that I know of that has no holes drilled into the door to hold the molding. I think that the car looks better with out the moldings. i'm in the process of removing them.

 

Yeah, I'm sure you've seen Accords without moldings. lol Holes all down the side of the car. Do they think that looks good or something?

 

I can't believe you left them on! Those things must be at least 2 pounds of weight reduction (j/k)

I live in the Columbia River Gorge. You don't know wind until you've been to the windsurfing capital of the world...I still might take mine off and just park a little farther out in the parking lot.

 

The bump stops are not that effective anyway, if you look down the side of the car, they line up with the widest arc on the door skin, so your door will get hit anyways, might as well take them off and look nice instead....

$0.02

Brian

 

Ok, then you park an equal car next to yours and slam the door open. You'll see that most cars, the way to edge of the door is curved, it will hit the molding instead of the door. It's there for a reason and it has saved me a lot of times. I will walk up to my car and see a nice fresh piece of paint on my molding. Whew! Glad I didn't remove them.

 

I thought they were for shopping carts cuz I see that a lot, someone rolls it in the stall thinking it made it and then it turns the other way and slam into the side of the car.

 

They may help a little but i have a nice dinger from my dad and also some one gave me a little dinger and left some geen paint on my left passenger door. those ungrateful bast**ds
I say take it off they dont work well enouh to keep them on and they look sick especially on my white car. I have cleaned them before but it just gets real dirty in a couple of weeks and their a pain to clean

 

I think mine might be coming off in the summer... You can always put them back on if you take them off nicely

 

Since the name of the poll is "What do you think looks the best?".... then I definitely voted for OFF!! But I haven't found the time in amongst my other mods. Plus, door dings pi$$ me off more than anybody. I am terrified of them. I will park a mile away from the grocery store just to get a 12pack of beer.

 

The side moldings look awesome off, but the car looks way better when you take the glue off too..i havn't gotten that far..

 

lil slow on the uptake? this was an ancient thread from May... hehe
anyways... here are a few pics after i took mine off.





Brian

 

I like 'em on......its the indented strip on the door that gets me when they are removed. If you removed them, and filled the strip so the door was smooth, that'd be tight.

 

I think it reminds me of the indent on the acura TL

 

if you filled in the indent in the doors it wouldnt make sense, there would be no point to the defining lines in the front and rear bumper

 

you actually washed your car?!?!

 

Yeh, i wash it quite often.

 

How did you guys take it off??? Any Tips. Will there be any holes left??? THANX

 

he meant me lol

no, look at the thread timestamp:
05-03-2004, 04:54 PM

and for the record, that is the last time I washed my car, now I know forsure

 

That looks pretty good!! How did you take them off perfectly without leaving the glue residue??

IMHO if the paint on them is fading and the rest of the paint on the car is good, then they need to come off. Luckily, the guy I bought my max from just got the bumper and moldings painted...

 

Get a clay bar and start scrubbin

 

i just looked back and found that DMad brought back this old thread.

 

actually it wasnt him (even though I like blaming him for stuff). I had noticed that someone voted on it to bring it back up. Then David posted on it. When it was first brought back up I noticed the date of the last post was still in may but remembered that if you vote on a poll that it bumps the thread back up.

 

hey dmad didnt do anything lol

mike where my corners

 

okay, since mike said so

 

corners what corners...I have no idea what you are talking about

You will get an email later on or tonight .

 

sounds good




thats right...brads jealous

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