Side door mouldings removal- lance it!

**fazali** · 03-12-2005, 05:23 PM

Just do it! Dramatic difference when you take these distractions off. The doors look bigger, the profile is sleeker.

I used goo gone to remove the adhesive.

Its a completely different car. Just do it!

You wont regret it.

I will email pics to those who want it.

**67alecto** · 03-12-2005, 06:05 PM

Originally Posted by fazali

Just do it! Dramatic difference when you take these distractions off. The doors look bigger, the profile is sleeker.

I used goo gone to remove the adhesive.

Its a completely different car. Just do it!

You wont regret it.

I will email pics to those who want it.

No need, there have been several people that have done that and posted the pictures.

And actually, I would regret it

Personally, I think the removal of the moldings makes the side of the car entirely too "slab-like". The mouldings break up the space and give the car nice lines.

**bipto** · 03-12-2005, 06:40 PM

Gotta agree with 67alecto here. When good weather hits, I do intend to alter my badging a bit (remove "hemi" badges, REPLACE RT letters with a vintage R/T badge, etc), but the moulding stays. With all due respect to the owners of the awesome-looking "shaved" Magnums, I think my preference is to leave at least the moulding on...

**a12bee** · 03-12-2005, 09:50 PM

I like the look without, for me the rubberbabybuggybumpers work just like they're supposed to, as I manage to bump the drywall every other time I get out of it.

**gn300** · 03-12-2005, 10:55 PM

I think it visually streaches the doors even more and makes the windows look smaller and the roof more chopped how cool is that :D

**Jim** · 03-12-2005, 10:59 PM

Everyone I've shown has agreed that it looks better with out the moldings. IMO it gives it a much more sleek "hotrod" look where as the moldings made it look more like a "family" car. But you know what opinions are like.... :D

**tedbiele** · 03-13-2005, 09:04 AM

**Rev.Hammer** · 03-13-2005, 09:51 AM

For me it would be a matter of the total aesthetic that you are reaching for. Some cars look better with them on, some off. I think it just depends on the final look.
Personally, I would like to them, but more subdues, maybe even doing it as molded INTO the steel itself.

**bipto** · 03-13-2005, 12:02 PM

My guess is that the "no mouldings" look varies FROM color to color too. Most of the pics I've seen of your shaved rides have been on the darker colors - and I think they look great. Then I go down to the garage and try to visualize that look on my Cool Vanilla, and I'm just not comfortable that I would be as impressed. And let's face it - it's a commitment. If I got 'em off and then decided I didn't like the look, it would be one hell of a PIA to put them back on...

**Jim** · 03-13-2005, 01:15 PM

Originally Posted by tedbiele

Here's a couple pics of mine...

http://www.dodgemagnum.net/phpBB2/vi...hlight=molding

Since this pic I've also removed the HEMI badge and the DODGE RT on the back.

**bipto** · 03-13-2005, 05:07 PM

Originally Posted by Jim

Originally Posted by tedbiele

Here's a couple pics of mine...

http://www.dodgemagnum.net/phpBB2/vi...hlight=molding

Since this pic I've also removed the HEMI badge and the DODGE RT on the back.

Thanks for (re)posting those pics, Jim. Like I said, I do think it's a sweet look on a dark-colored car (and yours is no exception

), I just don't know how it would look on Cool Vanilla. I think I'll wait a spell for another Vanilla owner to blaze this trail for me, then maybe I'll be able to get off the fence on this one...

**NicktheRN** · 03-14-2005, 04:23 AM

I like mouldings..I just wish mine were freakin straight! I wonder if I could peel them off and reapply them straight? As I have posted previously mine are crooked as a sway back mule.

**Rev.Hammer** · 03-14-2005, 09:51 AM

Thewre are literally dozens of aftermarket peel'n'stick mouldings on the market. Who says that you have to g bact to stock>

http://www.auto-trim.com/mouldings.shtml and others

**BlkHemiMag** · 03-14-2005, 02:15 PM

My take on this: if the car is lowered, lose the molding. If it's stock height, leave it on.
At stock height without the moldings you do risk making the doors look more slab-ish. If it's lowered, the ground replaces the molding in terms of the stretching effect. Being closer to the pavement stretches the whole car and diminishes the slab effect on the doors.
That's one reason I went without molding on my lowered truck and kept the stock molding on my lifted 4x4.

**fazali** · 03-17-2005, 06:35 PM

Great point on the lowered notation, you are right. As a matter of fact, thats my next move. However, I am still working out how to lower the car two inches all around. Any ideas?

Cheers