[DIY]NeRV: Refresh your old and tired strips!!

[NeRV]

Disclaimer: The following is provided as a GUIDE ONLY, and neither myself, nor OzHonda take any responsibility for the outcomes of someone else doing the following. You follow these steps at your own risk!

Aim: To make your old and worn out door window strip, look new again.



Time: 10 minutes y0!

Required:
1x Scissor
1x Screw Driver
1x Roll of Cloth Tape (BLACK)




Info: Well I was bored and remembered that Chris (Chris_F) did this to his car, to hide the chrome bling… so I thought it was a good idea to give it a crack and see if it can make my door strip look clean and new again. So I popped down to my local Autobarn where I grabbed some Cloth Tape, which only cost $7/8 bucks. Well enough with the chit chat and lets get going with this poor mans door revival DIY style.

Step 1:
Open up your door and inside the door you will see 3 screws (EG HATCHBACK)… undo these three screws… and make sure you put them in your pocket or else you could spend quite a bit of time crawling on the grass looking for it.






Step 2:
Now once you finished unscrewing those three little screws, remove this plastic piece.. once that plastic piece is out, lift up the door/window strip and take it out *Caution* be careful when you remove it, because theres these little plastic clips that can easily break off.






Step 3:
Find yourself a nice little green patch of grass to sit your arse upon, and lay the strip on your lap… whip out the tape and slowly place it on the strip and make sure that its lined up… use your spare finger to press down the tape as you go, so it doesn’t lift up.. once the tape is on… cut off any excess tape on the edges… woot!





Step 4:
Put the strip back into the hole, once again be careful of the clips and make sure that they line up with its allocated hole. Once the strip is on, place the plastic cover back on, and screw those 3 screws back in and place and WAAALLLAHHH!!





Stand back and enjoy your new looking door strips!!!




Wasn’t that easy and cheap?? Why go and spend big bucks on replacing them, or spending time sanding them down and re-spraying them, only to get the paint peel again. Now if your after a even bigger bargain, why not get a few friends who has the same problem and get everyone to chip in for the tape! LOL… I have basically a whole role left… since it doesn’t take much tape, unless you keep screwing up and re-doing it.*which you wont*

Thanks for reading guys.

[bennjamin]

noice work son. Looks to be very similar template to my first humble DIY beginingsssss Does / has it faded yet ? OIr peeled off ?

[jdmlvn]

haha nice diy mate.
this dude deserves a PQ point.
will this peel off?

[SiReal]

I assume the door strip is rubber right? or else you wouldve spray painted it?

nonetheless interesting read!

[NeRV]

there hasnt been any peeling or flaking or any signs of wear or tear on the tape, its been on for almost a week now lol

yeah the tape will peel off if you want it too, so if it gets any fading or damaged you can always peel it off and give it another fresh layer of tape.

Im not exactly too sure what the door strip is made out of, but my one has some sort of hard dry compound that i couldnt really sand off easily before painting, so i just did this instead, its basicaly the lazy mans way imo

[Eclipsor]

Nice work man.

I know what you mean about the paint. I painted them on my eg but could never get all the old paint off. In the end I did enough coats to even it out. This looks like a much simpler method and looks great.

[Redteg]

Great idea!

My sister's Tuscon uses some kind of tape on the window trim so it isn't such a crazy idea. I've heard of people using black vinyl sticker as used by sign makers, so maybe give that a go if you want something smooth and shiny!

[egSi]

GET ****ED!!


john man bring this tape and do my car 2moro! this is the coolest shit ever hahaaha!

[Paul1985]

I need to buy new ones too. Im not gonna tape mine though!!
haha, love the DIY though, great work. +rep for you.

Anyone know how much new ones cost and if you can still get them from honda dealerships??? *fingers crossed* ill be screwed if you cant, wreckers will be the last resort.

[Chris_F]

haha good shit johnny boy!

[NeRV]

Paul i think you can still get brand new ones from the dealers, but i heard it was a stupid amount of money, im not too sure how much it is... i went to wreckers to find these, but like my car none were in any better condition and remember cars from wreckers are F**kd and they have most likely sat in the sun rotting away for months or years.

And thanks everyone who has left a comment or gave me a Rep Point, makes doing these things and posting them up all worth while

[timofytit]

i just use meguires plastic restorer. Apply it after a wash. Always keeps them black and shiney.