okay okay okay, Its gonna be atleast $500 plus if I order new trim all around from toyota, altought this is the right way to do things and to make it look perfect, if they even still have stock on it, Thats $500++ I could use on restoring my suspension/ bushings, and trans swap. So heres my dilemma I really want it to look good as possible and prep work is the key, I did alot of reading on google, and people use a razor blade to cut the old trim off, but that dosent work here, those japanese baked this shit on! Ive heard alot of plastic dip and that seems the route Im going to take on this for now, but I have no idea how to remove the crackly trim poo, Do i just spray over with the plastic dip? What have you guys done here,? thanks
or is my cars trim just the worst here on the forums, I was thinking of just trying to order the door trim, and dip the rest?
your's is not the worst at all, mine could be. The way to treat it before spray would be to flat them down smoothly with 800 water paper then clean them with prepsol or some sort of oil, grease remover be careful when working on them trims and water paper not to flat your paint work as well mask every thing nicely first then use that plastic dip stuff.I would like you to post them pictures of progress so that I can then decide if I should go the same root.I am thinking some other product for that stuff which would be water base stone chip sprayed on with a spray-gun but still putting it to the test good luck.
Yup upper one! First was in great condition with the clips still intacted but I guess it wasn't full pushed in and my second on flew off on the freeway lucky no one was behind me. I guess I must impervise a new piece
looks great man, yeah some of mine are crackly plastic which looks like a bitch to sand off... How many coats did you use and did you use a adhesion promotor?
Not to hard.....i just sanded mine down and painted with a flat black.....looks good but mine i jave to redo cuz i did it half ass the first time.
Nope, I just cleaned it because mine wasn't damaged, just ugly. I sprayed 5 or 6 six layers, a whole bottle actually, but there was significant wind that time so it wasn't the most efficient
Window trim paint chipped off over time Is there any kind of "half-ass, backyard" repair I can do to the trims around the corners of the front and rear windshields??? (Not Plasti-dip) I know just painting won't adhere to the shiny metal, but is there something cheap and easy that will give decent results? I don't want to remove them...but they look funny and wrong the way they are. HAHA PS. I know the term "cheap and easy" is usually a recipe for disaster, but were just talkin' about aesthetics... Vicdat
