I have a 93 maxima and there is a piece of molding, on the outside of all four doors, it appears to be rusted, but it is pastic and can't rust... my car is tan and the "rusted brownish" color strip makes it look terrible... any ideas on what to do about this, or how to fix it? i have tried scrubbin it and nothing happens... Thanx

 

get a heat gun and take them off.......you can either repaint them or just leave them off(many choose to just leave them off, it looks fine)

 

take em off, buy lots of goo gone, and have a lot of spare time on your hands, because its a biatch to get that adhesive off the car after you remove them. but it looks a hell of a lot better without them, imo. its well worth it.

 

it will leave a big (about 1/2 inch) indention, are you sure this looks ok?

 

heres a pic of one--->

http://www.fortunecity.com/silversto...8/1b842cc0.jpg (sorry Chris none of the new pics of your car I have show the sides good )

http://www.fortunecity.com/silversto...8/18eabc00.jpg

 

Ok, thanx alot.. im gonna just pull them off... the paint under it should be ok right? not discolored or anything, right?

 

yeah the paint should be fine. but be careful when you pry them off because you might scratch the paint with whatever youre using to pry. (i used a screwdriver and made a scratch)

 

i could not find any goo gone, but i found goof off... i used it and its removing the glue, but it is also eating me clearcoat.. what else works? now i have big spots where the rag took off the paint.. ARGGG! what can i do to cover this up or fix until i can paint it? or does anytone now a good, fairly inexpensive paint shop in north Texas?

 

shoulda used goo gone...

 

woah! a maxus pic

plenty of pics on my website... http://maxima.cardomain.com/id/chris91se

 

After goo-gone, what do you use to get the glue off with. My work has a detailing center and we have plastic razor blades. They work fine, but they leave small scratches in the paint. Rubbin with a towel and goo-gone will not work.
-blake

 

when i removed mine, i used a plastic putty knife....to my amazement, i got the majority of the adhesive off until i was just tired of scraping that stuff off. i was using a good bit of force to get it off and no clearcoat or paint was being removed in the process. you just have to find a way to set the edge of putty knife (plastic) in the crease of the door and most of it should scrape right off with whateva adhesive remover you're using!!