Just curious if removing the body side moldings runs the risk of taking some of the car paint along with it.

 

Would it hurt if I yanked a pube and left it stranded? LOL jk nice screenname!

 

no it will not if u do it right ... make sure to heat the glue using a heat gun or a hair dryer and slowly floss it off ... after that use some goo gone to get the remaining residue ... then wax up the are for protection


lol nice screename

 

I have to wonder, though, if the paint underneath is going to still match the surrounding factory paint. After all, for however long the bodyside molding was on there, the paint underneath was protected from the sun, dirt, etc.

P.S. Why would you want to remove the bodyside molding?

 

there will obviously be a slight difference, but in time it will even out, also i think without the bsm the car looks cleaner

 

Yeah I was thinking of adding the BSM on but I'm diggin the look as it is. Looks pretty clean!

 

This is obviously one of those personal aesthetic things, but while the car does look "cleaner" without the bodyside molding, I also think it looks boring. There's that HUGE patch of vertical sheetmetal which desperately needs something to break it up--the bodyside molding does a perfect job. Without it, the RDX looks more than a bit slab-sided to me.

 

https://acurazine.com/forums/album.p...ictureid=36798

Only later did I notice I *slightly screwed up the alignment of the side moldings on the driver side.

 

^No one but you, or "BigHatch" would notice.