rubbing strips

[dub_addicted]

Does anyone know how i can take out my rubbing strips from the front and rear bumper then smoothing it? and also teh door strips, how will i take it off and wil it leave a mark?

[Dizzie]

if your golf is a early model the door strips are just stuck on with double sided tape. the later 90-spec ones were held on with pins and need welding up.

[dub_addicted]

hmmm its a mk4 golf

[vixteris]

obvious answer then is to buy a mark 2 then u will know all about the door strips!!!  

[VeeDubGTI16v]

for the bumpers cut out the rub strips and glass fibre a panel behind and then filler it?

[Cupra Turbo]

I can only speak for the mk3.

The door rubbing strips sit in a groove, in the groove are several holes where plastic clips are clipped into... once all clips are attached to the bodywork, the rubbing strip can be attached to the afore mentioned clips.

I assume the mk4 is similar, but perhaps without the groove.

The bumpers on the mk3 is totally different to the mk4 and so are the rubbing strips on it... but the mk4 ones looks identical to those running along the doors... so they are probably just using clips.

So if u wanna remove them... just "pop" the plastic off.. remove the clips and fill the holes, smooth it, prime it, paint it.

shouldnt be "too" hard .. or alternatively, u can appreciate ur rubbing strips are bodycoloured and smooth where as us mk1,2,3 owners have black rough plastic that needs smoothed, primed and painted b4 its bodycoloured!  :'(

[dub_addicted]

lol yea good point, it sounds quite a big job to smooth it, although worth it at the end and vix i prefer a curvier car over the mk 2 lol

[Cupra Turbo]

i prefer a curvier car over the mk 2

Me too ... love how there wider.... smoother etc ... but hey every1 to their own...

one day when all the mk1's and mk2's are gone, you'll all adore the mk3 LOL