so im gonna be getting my bird painted soon and i wanted a more clean look to the side and am thinking about leaving the side moldings OFF...i know they help prevent door dings and what have you..
Mikey

 

Just park farther away and door dings will be less likely.

 

uhh...yea O.o
anyone?? pics?

 

sorry no pics but gotta ask isnt your car a dd or am i thinking of someone else? if it is a DD i highly reccomend keeping them on even if you park miles away because sometimes you just dont think and swing those doors open and are hell glad you have them and sometimes you gotta hit stuff like if you have a small garage to get the hell out of the car.

 

yea it is..even tho it has problem after problem -_- and yea i know..and i dont park it in a garage. so...yeah :P

 

take them off, my 92 has the moldings, and it still got a bunch of dings right on the moldings and into the sheetmetal

 

SEE!! looks awsome!!

 

i wish mine didnt have riveted molding on it . It looks nice with it gone .

 

I just didn't have them when I bought the car..
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Here's mine:




And this car belongs to a member of my local club:

 

just an suggestion it really is nice to have at times EXEPECIALLY if you got mint paint/body. I do agree it does look better without them though. and btw there's a few in your sig.

 

I agree they look better off, but with my being a DD I might put them back on.

 

I hated the pre-88 (or maybe 89) moldings, but I really wish the p/o had left the factory moldings on my 91 Z28. I thought the later moldings looked good, and actually added to the mid-body line on the cars...

Anyone want to sell me their 88-92 moldings???

 

 

Those moldings are not very good. If someone opens their door and hits your car you are still screwed because it will still ding the door. It pretty much only protects the paint..

 

absolutely love the way it looks

 

Heres mine... shes a work in progress

 

I wasn't sure if you wanted a pic of a car with or without the side skirts. Anyway here is what I have.

 

love that colour!! keep em comin

 

 

I vote to rip them off, the car looks so much cleaner without them. They didnt stop a car from giving me a nice door ding and I plan to toss um when i repaint the car.

 

looks real slick without em

 

awsomeeeeee!!!!!!lol :P keep em comin!
im convinced tho

 

I really dont think you guys understand that there not just for a cars door flinging at you, they really are nice if you are stuck in a tight place say an garage or if you accidently fling the door to far out.

 

The little strip may help the door from smacking into a flat surface like a wall, but if you're just flinging your car door open in tight spots, you deserve a door ding.

 

some people have small garages though so you just gotta sometimes "tap" stuff with the molding to get out.

 

Tapping with or without the molding wont cause dings. At worst you might get a small scuff. But that depends on your definition of just tapping.

 

yeaa thats what im saying lol...seems like its an exadurated subject

 

ok dumb question but are the side moldings stuck on with like double sided 3m tape or are they actully bolted or riveted to the car i have a 91 camaro and was thinkin about getting rid of them becuase it does look far better imo

 

uhhh...i would think some type of adhesive...no way they are riveted right?

 

Adhesive.

 

Here's mine...

 

no side molding here;

 

Damn thats a nice looking camaro, what wheels are those?

 

dam..lovin no side molding lol

 

Here is my Piece-o-junk.

Brisk, your car is......wow, just wow. IMO that is what thirdgens are SUPPOSED to look like.

 

POJ?
uhh...no way bro..haha...looks good

 

Without

 

I know this is not the part that we are discussing but thought I would share this with you.
This is something I put on my car over 2 years ago and has saved the edge of my door/paint many times. I bought mine at Auto Zone and comes in different colors .I had mine painted when I painted the car .Perfect for a daily driver like mine.You can hardly see them in the top photos so I took some more . There down the thread a little.




Cowles Products / 2 pcs. 7/16 x 27 in. black stick-on door edge molding
Price: $3.99
Part Number:
T4002
Finish:
Black
Applications:
Universal decorative and protective flexible car door Edge Trim. Prevents door dings, chips, nicks and scratches. Bends around curves and contours. Easy push-on application with integrated product adhesive manufactured with UV stabilizers for long exterior life.

 

cant even see it O.o lmaoo

 

 

It looks almost invisible...

 

im not seeing it O.o

 

Theres a thin strip of something like red rubber tubing thats slipped over the edge of the door.

 

 

I really wanted those damn tires but they don't come in 16 inch rims!

 

love the colour on RealMac4's maro

 

Yeah side mouldings don't look good in my opinion...see sig!

 

On both my 92 & the wife's 90, we had them removed at paint job time:



And if your paint is good & not real old? You can remove them without having a nice stripe of paint left behind. That is how I did my 97 Tahoe right after I bought it, in '99: