Hey guys, so I had time during a break, so I decided to remove my ugly faded window molding, so the first thing was looking at it, I was gonna paint and remove the vinyl while its on the car, but my friend told me to get the lisle tool which helped a good amount. So I ordered from amazon which was about 12$, took me about 1-2 hours to finish with paint. So basically there are NO CLIPS for the TL, its hooked on into the door metal, so u don’t need to worry about breaking any clips, just worry about bending the molding, so I kinda fcked up when putting back on the rears when I was try to slide it back in, which scratch up some paint. I was mad but oh wells. Once I took it off, I use a heat gun to remove the vinyl easier, after that then I just use goo gone to clean up the mess of the residue. Then I had to get some adhesion promoter and trim paint from pep boys and applied about 2 coats of promotor and about 4 coats of trim and bumper. I shoulda use primer instead. But came out pretty nice looking like new, you can tell by the pics. Let me know what u guys think!!!

 

Looks good! I was thinking of re-painting my trim too because it's faded really badly.

 

https://acurazine.com/forums/third-g...w-trim-904516/ is another option

 

That looks great man, very informative also.

 

i need to do this badly, no way do I have enough patience to do it my self though.. my place quoted me 250 for the whole car front and back along with the pillar parts too, but thats with carbon fibre vinyl

 

Still too expensive.

 

^ 60 a hour? 3-4 hours, shits tedious man lol, material costs too not that theres a lot of materials involved but still

 

3-4 hours? More like 2 hours. Many people have done it since the trim fades for everyone, it's a pretty simple process and it's hard to fuck the job up. I don't know man, your money in the end. I need to do mine at some point too and I think it'll be a nice after work project.

 

yea I def don't see it being more than 3 hours for sure... but you gotta take the pieces off, then peel all the old shit off then re-wrap it all again, its tedious.. I just look at it from the shops perspective, they gotta eat too. but when he said 250 I was like fuuck really I was thinking 200 lol

 

Like I said, your money. Best of luck!

 

hope the don't scratch my car is what I'm worried about lol

 

Looks new!

 

it was a hot day too but i wanted done, paint about 12-15$ for adhesion promotor and trim paint. and 12$ for tool but everything is ok, i might do the vinyl option later on down the line if the paint peels. thanks for the reply guys!!!

 

one more picture i forgot to post..!!!!

 

Looks mint!

 

Nice write-up!

 

What kind of trim paint did you use?