I decided to remove the side molding on the T/A today, think it looks much better now.

Sorry pictures are giant, and the car needs a bath.

Before:





What lay hidden beneath:




After:






Comparison from further away:

Nice job, looks much better/cleaner now

I love the look without the molding.

Now just round out the piece between the heat extractors. Only ugly part in my opinion.

Could we get a wider view picture without the molding (like your forest pic)? I may want to do this when I repaint my car.

Looks great!

I want to do this, but am afraid the paint under the molding will not look the same as the rest of the car. I know some of car has been repainted, but I'm not sure if they took the molding off when they did the repaint.

Looks much better though.

Might be somthing I will be doing soon. As for this car a nice shiny pay of 17" WS6 Rims would do some justice!

Just did mine but on my passenger side the moldings had a different (black) tape so I think I will have to use some 3M adhesive remover on it. The white factory tape comes off very easy.

Paint was perfect under it too.

Thanks!

Do you have any pictures or how to's on rounding it out? I'll upload some wider angle pics in a few hours.



I dont really know of a way to check under there before you start sawing at the adhesive. If you know where it was painted, maybe they know if they tend to remove molding or not?

Yeah, I'd love some different wheels, but $$$.

My adhesive looked different than the tutorial video I saw, but this stuff wasnt too bad to get off, only a few blisters from it lol.

looks good!

and the best part is it didn't take a 7 page thread to do it either

Just ignore me Didn't think how much it'd interfere with the body line by sanding it down. Just odd seeing it without the side molding

Haha, thanks.


Heres a few others, maybe it gives you a better idea of how it looks.

I have been meaning to do this to my TA for a while now, and seeing your thread gave me the boot to go do it lol. I removed my moldings a few hours ago. The adhesive residue came off fairly easy, but there is still an outline of where they were. I tried clay baring it, which helped, but did not remove the "outlines" completely. Any suggestions? Would buffing the areas help?

After rolling off the adhesive, we went over the entire strip with windex, then went back over it with goo gone and some elbow grease to get what stayed behind. I can feel a line in a few places here and there, but I haven't got a clay bar to go at it with, and its only visible when you're really close and looking at a certain angle. I figure the line wont be noticeable after a good wash and wax.

nice work there man, keepin it clean!

Thanks. Ill have to try the goo gone tomorrow.

Lol, same here man, just got finished doing it, took me a whopping 20 minutes!

looks good man, I never understood why gm thought it would be a good idea to put ugly molding on these cars...

Wow, much better angles! Looks great, thanks.

anyone done this on a black car thats had an outside life and had bad results? im worried for the paint under it looking alot more fresh. im also taking the trans am emblems of my door becuase they bought white letters in which i hate it, i love the simple stock look. they also had put white overlays on the bird on the tail light filler peice and white over the Pontiac on the head lights..ugghhh!! i hate it lol so im making changes asap and bought new black logos for less then half the price of what i been seeing them for and they are brand new so im stoked!

any have pics of black trans ams with the molding off?