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Re: Door & Dashboard Alumium Trim Strips....
« Reply #15 on: April 17, 2009, 12:45:02 pm »
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Thanks for that link, Jay :happy2:

Trouble is, it would cost me £30 for what is probably a once-in-a-lifetime use! That's nearly half of what the trim wrapping will cost me inc vat.


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Re: Door & Dashboard Alumium Trim Strips....
« Reply #16 on: April 17, 2009, 12:46:55 pm »
no worries, for someone like me, who does a lot of interior work, there a fabuolous set to have! ;)

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Re: Door & Dashboard Alumium Trim Strips....
« Reply #17 on: April 17, 2009, 01:37:42 pm »
VC has taken his off to paint Robin, maybe worth a PM to wake him up!  :wink:

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Re: Door & Dashboard Alumium Trim Strips....
« Reply #18 on: April 17, 2009, 01:44:17 pm »

VC has taken his off to paint Robin, maybe worth a PM to wake him up!  :wink:


...Cheers, Nath  :happy2: - Will do.

wigit has PM'd me a whole thread with pics too - Excellent but no time yet to sort it for GTI, trim strip only, consumption yet. Will do so later today hopefully. Off to wash my car.............


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Re: Door & Dashboard Alumium Trim Strips....
« Reply #19 on: April 17, 2009, 03:03:10 pm »

VC has taken his off to paint Robin, maybe worth a PM to wake him up!  :wink:


...Cheers, Nath  :happy2: - Will do.

wigit has PM'd me a whole thread with pics too - Excellent but no time yet to sort it for GTI, trim strip only, consumption yet. Will do so later today hopefully. Off to wash my car.............

Can you PM me this also Robin? I quite want to take my interior trim off too!  :happy2:
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Re: Door & Dashboard Alumium Trim Strips....
« Reply #20 on: April 17, 2009, 03:23:27 pm »
guys chap has removed these from his roc (essentially the same) on our forum but its a bit wordy and not all relavent and the mix of brushed aluminium and r32 bits is a bit  :scared:

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Re: Door & Dashboard Alumium Trim Strips....
« Reply #21 on: April 17, 2009, 05:06:24 pm »

guys chap has removed these from his roc (essentially the same) on our forum but its a bit wordy and not all relavent and the mix of brushed aluminium and r32 bits is a bit  :scared:


....I'm back home now and have done the deed - I'll edit that Rocco post and post a new one here under How To's and I'll credit the guy for his pics and info.

So.....soon, guys  :happy2:

My upholstery guy turns out to be a friend of a friend and lent me a set of those nice blue polythingy tools and also a star-bolt doer/undoer (sounds Dutch) for next week.


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Re: Door & Dashboard Alumium Trim Strips....
« Reply #22 on: April 17, 2009, 05:08:15 pm »

guys chap has removed these from his roc (essentially the same) on our forum but its a bit wordy and not all relavent and the mix of brushed aluminium and r32 bits is a bit  :scared:


....I'm back home now and have done the deed - I'll edit that Rocco post and post a new one here under How To's and I'll credit the guy for his pics and info.

So.....soon, guys  :happy2:

My upholstery guy turns out to be a friend of a friend and lent me a set of those nice blue polythingy tools and also a star-bolt doer/undoer (sounds Dutch) for next week.

That will be very helpful to me  :smiley: :smiley:
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Re: Door & Dashboard Alumium Trim Strips....
« Reply #23 on: April 17, 2009, 05:36:05 pm »

That will be very helpful to me  :smiley: :smiley:


....In that case I won't do it! :evilgrin:

Anyway, I don't have time - I've got a date with Elisabetta Gregoraci :wink:


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Re: Door & Dashboard Alumium Trim Strips....
« Reply #24 on: April 17, 2009, 05:43:53 pm »
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Re: Door & Dashboard Alumium Trim Strips....
« Reply #25 on: April 17, 2009, 05:58:40 pm »

they come off quite easy but can also bend easily, i had mine off a while back to find a rattle.   dont worry if they bend though they straighten back.  and i think it would be hard to lose any clips  :happy2:  all the clips seem lose without the strips though


....So you can pull them off without removing any door cards etc?

Any tool which is best to use as a lever?

Start in the middle? End?

[You can tell how good I am at such things!]
i started at the ends and the door card def stays on, and as above the best things are those plastic trim remover thingys  :happy2:
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Re: Door & Dashboard Alumium Trim Strips....
« Reply #26 on: July 28, 2010, 02:10:53 pm »
My driver side aluminium door trim has developed a rather irritating rattle lol - so will be removing and putting a bit of double sided tape behind it to stop that!

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Re: Door & Dashboard Alumium Trim Strips....
« Reply #27 on: July 28, 2010, 02:41:28 pm »

My driver side aluminium door trim has developed a rather irritating rattle lol - so will be removing and putting a bit of double sided tape behind it to stop that!


....Be careful not to break any more of the rather fragile plastic fixings when removing/refixing. These strips aren't really designed to be taken on and off by VW's customers!


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Re: Door & Dashboard Alumium Trim Strips....
« Reply #28 on: July 28, 2010, 03:02:37 pm »

My driver side aluminium door trim has developed a rather irritating rattle lol - so will be removing and putting a bit of double sided tape behind it to stop that!


Especially carefull ahe Mr Hedge  :wink:

....Be careful not to break any more of the rather fragile plastic fixings when removing/refixing. These strips aren't really designed to be taken on and off by VW's customers!

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Re: Door & Dashboard Alumium Trim Strips....
« Reply #29 on: July 28, 2010, 05:31:37 pm »
I suspect the previous owner broke one of the clips, hence why it makes a noise unless I press it in!

It's not that loud, just irritating, 9 times out of 10 the stereo will drown out any rattles, after all, I am in Essex  :evilgrin: