Replacing plastic strips on doors

mp3ireland2

Changed two doors on my ford mondeo mk2 yesterday evening with ones I got from the scrap yard, the replacement ones didn’t have dents!

The plastic strip on the outside of the centre of the door (don’t know the technical name for this!) is was black on my car. The new doors however have a silver one. It doesn’t make too much difference as both new doors are one side with the silver strip, where as the other side with the original doors has the black strip. Just wondering does anybody know if this plactic strip is just glued on or how is it held in place? Has anybody removed/replaced one? Is it hard done/worth my while!

Thanks!

Hal1

It is held on with double sided arcrilic tape. I'd try some mammoth tape, ebay link.

mp3ireland2

Cool thanks for that I'll order some of that stuff!

From some googling i see that fishing wire or dental floss should remove them. I'll take them off the old doors first and see how I get on!

biko

Sometimes a bit of hairdrying first will loosen the adhesive.
This is usually only a concern when de-badging a car as you don't want adhesive left on the paint.

mp3ireland2

biko wrote: »

Sometimes a bit of hairdrying first will loosen the adhesive.
This is usually only a concern when de-badging a car as you don't want adhesive left on the paint.

Cheers thanks lads! got it off with fishing line handy enough (tried it out on my old doors first!)

I'll order some of that tape and have a go at it when it arrives. There was adhesive left all right but i'll just be covering it up again so it should be fine. Hopefully I can put the new ones on straight!

The tape on them seemed to be about 18mm, they are just about 25mm wide so I suppose i'll go with 25mm tape as opposed to 12mm (Which are the two options on the tape in the link above) i'll test it out somewhere first to make sure the tape won't be sticking out under them!

Buford T Justice

It might be a good idea to remove all the old adhesive from the strips and the new doors before you go trying to stick them again, as for one, dirt will cling to the existing adhesive and cause problems.

mp3ireland2

Buford T Justice wrote: »

It might be a good idea to remove all the old adhesive from the strips and the new doors before you go trying to stick them again, as for one, dirt will cling to the existing adhesive and cause problems.

yeah good thinking i have the old doors to mess about with and see what takes them off without damaging the paint, i assume some hot water, washing up liquid and one of those green scrubs would prob work!

I've created quite a long thread for such a trivial thing, lucky I'm not trying to do anything complicated

Buford T Justice

careful with the scourer as it may scratch the paint. Try a chemical like thinners or something. May make life much easier.

mp3ireland2

Buford T Justice wrote: »

careful with the scourer as it may scratch the paint. Try a chemical like thinners or something. May make life much easier.

Ok i'll give that a shot! I can use the old door as my test, see what works and doesn't scratch on that! "Thinners" pardon my ignorance but do you mean paint thinner or is this something else?

Buford T Justice

mp3ireland2 wrote: »

Ok i'll give that a shot! I can use the old door as my test, see what works and doesn't scratch on that! "Thinners" pardon my ignorance but do you mean paint thinner or is this something else?

Standard thinnners. used for painting cars and the like. Any motor factors will have it.