The sun faded and cracked the lower silver embedded side molding on my passenger door, so I decided to remove it as whatever was underneath could not be worse. I am posting this because I assume this has happened to a lot of you.
Good results, but hard to come by. I'll post a pic later, but to summarize, it looks like a viable solution if done carefully. The molding (which is actually a strip) is glued in with a white, fluffy, caulking type stuff. The strip comes off easily, but the caulking does not. Though once removed (still trying to figure out the best way to do this), the empty channel underneath is square-shaped with soft curves, and is painted. The only detractors are a couple of 3/16" finished holes (not sure what they are used for). It actually doesn't look to bad. Just refrain from using any metal tools to remove it and it comes off fine. The channel can be washed and waxed and the casual observer wouldn't know the difference.
If anyone knows of a good way to remove that caulking-glue stuff, I'm going to go ahead and remove the silver moulding around the entire car, as it has all pretty much turned yellow.
Good results, but hard to come by. I'll post a pic later, but to summarize, it looks like a viable solution if done carefully. The molding (which is actually a strip) is glued in with a white, fluffy, caulking type stuff. The strip comes off easily, but the caulking does not. Though once removed (still trying to figure out the best way to do this), the empty channel underneath is square-shaped with soft curves, and is painted. The only detractors are a couple of 3/16" finished holes (not sure what they are used for). It actually doesn't look to bad. Just refrain from using any metal tools to remove it and it comes off fine. The channel can be washed and waxed and the casual observer wouldn't know the difference.
If anyone knows of a good way to remove that caulking-glue stuff, I'm going to go ahead and remove the silver moulding around the entire car, as it has all pretty much turned yellow.