[daly]

The rubber moldings that sit between the fenders and the body all of a sudden seem to be popping out in a couple of different places. Is it possible to glue (contact cement) these back in place?

Anyone have this problem?

I do not really want to remove the fenders to put these back into place, I was hoping to get them glued back in without taking off the body parts.

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[RickP]

[quote name='daly' post='32102' date='Mar 8 2007, 03:40 PM']The rubber moldings that sit between the fenders and the body all of a sudden seem to be popping out in a couple of different places. Is it possible to glue (contact cement) these back in place?

Anyone have this problem?

I do not really want to remove the fenders to put these back into place, I was hoping to get them glued back in without taking off the body parts.[/quote]



Are you refering to the ones that run between the wheels on the side?



Rick

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[Anchorman]

Daly, I'm having the same issue. The molding that is just forward of the right rear taillight is popped out of place. I'm using that as another piece of motivation to get the car repainted (which it truly needs), but I've also considered the interim fix of pushing it back in place over a bead of some kind of adhesive. I'll watch this thread for ideas.

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[bob blackwell]

I have reattached the molding between the lower side skirts and the body with silicone rubber which hardens into flexible hard rubber. The best results I have obtained were after removing the plastic pieces, cleaning them and attaching the molding with silicone rubber and clamping (with clothes pins!) then allowing to dry/cure overnight before reattaching the plastic pieces with the molding attached. Good luck, Bob Blackwell.

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[Darth Vadar]

Yep! That is the way to go. Works like a charm! Of course, it helps to hava a black car. If you get a little extra silicone rubber on the trim, it doesn't show hardly at all!

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[daly]

[quote name='bob blackwell' post='32113' date='Mar 8 2007, 06:37 PM']I have reattached the molding between the lower side skirts and the body with silicone rubber which hardens into flexible hard rubber. The best results I have obtained were after removing the plastic pieces, cleaning them and attaching the molding with silicone rubber and clamping (with clothes pins!) then allowing to dry/cure overnight before reattaching the plastic pieces with the molding attached. Good luck, Bob Blackwell.[/quote]

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[Etnier]

Not quite sure how this fix would address the longitudinal shrinkage of the molding: the fact that after all these years it tends to shrink by perhaps an inch at each end.



My molding suffers this problem: I've been putting off fixing it because of reported issues with the clips breaking and all. But if the silicone fix really works, I'm all for it

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[RickP]

[quote name='Etnier' post='32174' date='Mar 9 2007, 05:00 PM']Not quite sure how this fix would address the longitudinal shrinkage of the molding: the fact that after all these years it tends to shrink by perhaps an inch at each end.



My molding suffers this problem: I've been putting off fixing it because of reported issues with the clips breaking and all. But if the silicone fix really works, I'm all for it[/quote]



Get new rubber mouldings and clips from Sunset. You will break some clips but it's no big deal. This stuff is not expensive. I used hot glue. Don't use hot glue. Mine now need to be redone. Silicone sounds good, have also heard that 3M adhesive works well. So fun to see the expression on my wife's face when I had the lower panels on the kitchen counters gluing the rubber things in place.



Rick

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[doster]

my moldings were popin out because the skirts had warped slightly and also baught new

rubber but saved the clips, used a heat gun to get um back in shape and didn,t use

glue " probably should have" good luck with it.

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