How to remove side window trims?

[Alecci]

Greetings,

I'd greatly appreciate it if someone could tell me how to remove the side window trims? One of mine has had some of the black paint peeled off since before I bought the car and it has started to irritate me enough to finally do something about it. I first had them both wrapped in carbon fibre vinyl in order to accomplish a short-term solution, but the cheap look of it buggers me incessantly.

The parts I'm talking about are numbers 3 and 4 on this drawing here.

Many thanks in advance for any assistance.

 

[Danny]

I assume, you mean this drawing?

 

[Alecci]

Quite correct.

 

[conaero]

Well not having done this myself it would appear that they are fixed at the A pillar with a machine screw so a good point to start.

Obviously you problem is going to be removal without bending them.

My suggestion would be to invest in so trim pliers:

http://www.google.co.uk/m/products/...=YaMFUMOOBs3xsgbj5eTwBg&ved=0CFkQ8wIwAQ#prd:o

 

[Alecci]

I took a closer look at it today, and it seems that several screws hold the trim pieces down. The screws are accesible if one bend the rubber seal aside gently - at least all the way to the B-pillar. Then it gets trickier, and it seems one has to remove the rear quarter windows in order to be able to remove it completely.

 

[dunnah01]

I just masked mlne off and gave them a good spray with satin black and lacquer - only a couple of lazy hours and they look like new

 

[conaero]

I would be inclined to go this route, inevitably, trim like this gets damaged when removing.

 

[dunnah01]

A couple of photo's (apologies for quality but it was hard to get a decent piccy at the time with my phone)

Before - lots of score marks from a fair number of polishes:

After a few minutes with a rattle can, some masking tape and last weeks free newspaper

It looks far better than the photo's seem to show

 

[conaero]

Nice job, tidied her up a treat. It's amazing was a little TLC can make to a car.

 

[Alecci]

Thanks for the replies. Guess the masking and painting will be some sort of last resort solution, as I've now taken a liking to having the trims finished in carbon fibre. Thing is though, that I don't want cheap vinyl **** on the car but I will need to remove the trims in order to skin them with real carbon fibre.