trans am moldings on sides, paint or decal
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so i wanna do the trans am molding under the doors black, and theres 2 options, paint them or buy the overlay for them witch i think would be hell to put on straingt and have it line up perfect, looking for who has done each one how they done it and even pics if you got them thanks
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Just remove your side moldings, they're stupid. It looks a lot cleaner with them gone too. The only reason we have side moldings are to prevent damage to our doors when others parked next to us hit our cars w/ their doors; it's supposed to hit the side molding and stop it from getting your entire door at once.... you can simply make sure this never happens by parking further away from ppl when pulling into a parking lot.
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I always park far away from other cars and yet someone always parks right beside me. I think the OP is talking about the TRANS AM letters on the side I'd just put a decal on it; its easy just make sure the surface is clean and take your time. You can also spray a little bit of soapy water or window tint fluid on the back of the letters so you can move them round before they're stuck for good.
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havent done either of your suggestions, but like Jam said, id remove them. im glad i did. So much cleaner
and the whole idea of them stopping another car door from hitting you is a myth. it just doesn't work out like that. go park next to some other car and test it out. for them to work, the farthest end point of the other car would have to be the EXACT height of your moldings for them to work... odds of that happening? every car has different dimensions/heights, so the moldings do not really do anything to prevent damage. (i had to tell myself all of this to convince myself to finally remove my own)
and the whole idea of them stopping another car door from hitting you is a myth. it just doesn't work out like that. go park next to some other car and test it out. for them to work, the farthest end point of the other car would have to be the EXACT height of your moldings for them to work... odds of that happening? every car has different dimensions/heights, so the moldings do not really do anything to prevent damage. (i had to tell myself all of this to convince myself to finally remove my own)
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I always park far away from other cars and yet someone always parks right beside me. I think the OP is talking about the TRANS AM letters on the side I'd just put a decal on it; its easy just make sure the surface is clean and take your time. You can also spray a little bit of soapy water or window tint fluid on the back of the letters so you can move them round before they're stuck for good.
or like transambroli said, its not too hard to paint them, or apply the vinyl decals
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just paint them....save some money....but if I had a white t/a I would go w/ stainless from emblem pros for sure..I'm glad I painted mine, because I ended up debadging them in the long run. but....here's some pics of them (painted w/ red caliper paint)
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i'm going to be debadging mine to paint them black next weekend. if you don't mind me asking, where did you get this 3m emblem glue? now i just need to decide between a flat black vs gloss black..
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