kFanghe

I saw some posts on removing the side mouldings. Seemed pretty easy, there're just glued on right; at least that's what everyone said. WRONG! If you own an '02 DX sedan do not remove the pinstriping from your doors. Yes they are glued on to some degree, but there also little plastic tabs in addition to the glue that fit into little holes in the door that further help keep the pinstriping in place. So if you don't like seeing holes in your doors, than don't pull off the mouldings. Good thing is that I think you can easily glue it back on if you did what I did (haven't glued it back on yet).

Now my question is, does anyone know how much it would cost to have the holes filled and painted professionally? Really, pinstriping is ugly. [IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-frown.gif[/IMG]

whowhatwhoa

u have to get it weldered shut and sand it and painteted too nmuch money

drbombay

pinstriping is very different from the side moulding. it is just a decorative tape and easy to take off. the moulding is the plastic on the side.

WeSSoN

iTrader: (-1)

or u could just bondo the holes and sand...thats all u need to do...but just make sure to maintain the bodylines.......

bob_tam

sorry, if i ask a stupid question, so the 02 civic is the only model that have the hole after removing the moulding, right, cause i have a 01 civic, i wanted to remore that as well, will there be any problem, thx.

AZ2K1Civic

iTrader: (3)

If you want to remove the pinstriping...take a heat gun or even a hair dryer to it and peel it of with your fingernail. After that use an adhesive remover to take the sticky stuff off, then wash and wax, done.

If you want to remove the plastic molding piece that runs along the doors on a sedan then yes you have to have the holes filled, sanded, and paint matched to the car.

hankscorpio

iTrader: (1)

People said this about removing the pinstriping, not the side moulding. You just didn't know the difference between the two. The pinstriping is what is just on by glue, not the side moulding.

FALKEN

iTrader: (55)

you beat me to it!!



i did the pinstriping removal as stated...took like 20min with my heat-gun and i used goo-gone to get the excess adhesive residue off, then did the wash/wax...worked great!!










FYI: the coupes side moldings are 3M taped to the sides and the sedans are 3M tape AND clips

eye_see_you

iTrader: (13)

I own a 02 sedan and had the dealership removethe pinstrip before I would drive it away . there should not be any small holes because all they did to mine was pull it off and buff it out