Plastic Door Trim
Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 4:57 pm
Last year I had the bottom of both my doors tidied up as they had a bit of rust (due to water sitting on the runner) and this had cause the plastic door trim to bend and not sit completely flush.
The plastic door trim was removed from the bottom of both doors, and any rust was cut out, filled in, then resprayed – good as new. The problem is that now there is no plastic door trim on the car at all. I still have my ones that I took off, but the metal bits in these have rusted too, and even if I could clean the rust and spray them, they cannot be reattached because it is impossible to remove the rock-hard bonding agent that was originally used to attach them to the door. So if I was to just fix these back on they would most likely sit out from the door (due to the extra glue used to attach them).
Does anyone know if these plastic panels can be sourced new from anywhere?
I could maybe get another set from a breakers yard, but they would surely just be filled with the same rock-hard glue?
Any ideas?
The plastic door trim was removed from the bottom of both doors, and any rust was cut out, filled in, then resprayed – good as new. The problem is that now there is no plastic door trim on the car at all. I still have my ones that I took off, but the metal bits in these have rusted too, and even if I could clean the rust and spray them, they cannot be reattached because it is impossible to remove the rock-hard bonding agent that was originally used to attach them to the door. So if I was to just fix these back on they would most likely sit out from the door (due to the extra glue used to attach them).
Does anyone know if these plastic panels can be sourced new from anywhere?
I could maybe get another set from a breakers yard, but they would surely just be filled with the same rock-hard glue?
Any ideas?