May 17, 200619 yr how do you remove the door/body bumper strips on ea81 style cars? i'm not talking about the wide black ones near the bottom, but the chrome and rubber ones that run right through the middle of the door and body. the rubber strip peels right of, but the chrome thingy is rivited on. so how do you remove without damaging the body?
May 17, 200619 yr To get the chrome things off you may just have to drill out the rivets.And to get the adhesive stuff off I have always used a heat gun and some orange oil cleaner,seems to do the trick.
May 17, 200619 yr Author To get the chrome things off you may just have to drill out the rivets.And to get the adhesive stuff off I have always used a heat gun and some orange oil cleaner,seems to do the trick. so they are glued on too? i use fishing line to get stuff like that off. thanks for the advice.
May 18, 200619 yr They have little screws under the rubber - the track screws on. Little phillips heads IIRC. They leave holes :-\ GD
May 18, 200619 yr They have little screws under the rubber huh, all the ones i ever removed were rivetted on. drilling or prying was the only option to remove.
May 18, 200619 yr Could be a year thing - the one I pulled off the coupe door that is now on my Brat was like that.... maybe depends on the year and style of the trim strip.... either that or it was painted or something and I didn't notice. Body shop could have put them on I suppose GD
May 18, 200619 yr Author Could be a year thing - the one I pulled off the coupe door that is now on my Brat was like that.... maybe depends on the year and style of the trim strip.... either that or it was painted or something and I didn't notice. Body shop could have put them on I suppose GD yeah i also have a car where the track is screwed on. doesn't look stock, but it could be a matter of year. some models didn't have the strips at all.
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