Removing Body Side Moldings

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Aug 16, 2011 | 03:11 AM

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I started using heat, fishing line and plastic bondo spreader and ended up just pulling it off.
Once you get it off polish and wax the area.

Aug 17, 2011 | 09:28 PM

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Spend your money on an eraser wheel, you can find them online for under ten bucks. I did mine awhile back and one side came off almost with all the double sided tape so I only needed to use a little goo gone on that side but the other side came off with all the double sided tape on my truck and that was not worth the effort to use goo gone.

Thanks for the info!!

Aug 19, 2011 | 05:25 PM

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how much does the side moulding cost. i took mine off, and wanting to sell it, I tried looking up a price but couldnt find it. any body know about how much they go for?

Aug 19, 2011 | 06:15 PM

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I'd check lmc truck or possibly tasca ford parts.

Aug 19, 2011 | 09:00 PM

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how much does the side moulding cost. i took mine off, and wanting to sell it, I tried looking up a price but couldnt find it. any body know about how much they go for?

Reg Cab and Super Cab are $100
Super Crew are $120 on LMC.com

Aug 19, 2011 | 11:26 PM

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thanks.

Feb 24, 2014 | 06:21 PM

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Cody631

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when you guys removed the trim was the paint the same as the rest? i want to take mine off but i don't want my truck to be a little faded with the stripes still looking good.

Feb 25, 2014 | 09:13 AM

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when you guys removed the trim was the paint the same as the rest? i want to take mine off but i don't want my truck to be a little faded with the stripes still looking good.

I did mine in 09 on my 98. If the truck has good paint and been washed and waxed regularly there shouldn't be any problems. It will take polishing compound and a

buffer to get it perfect, but it is totally worth it.

Feb 25, 2014 | 12:54 PM

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I ended up taking mine off and the paint was the same. My truck is an 01 and the moldings came off Dec of 2011.

Mar 5, 2014 | 05:41 PM

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anybody removed the pin striping ? i have it on mine and it looks bad.

Mar 5, 2014 | 05:48 PM

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anybody removed the pin striping ? i have it on mine and it looks bad.

Can't say that I have. I think people use eraser wheels for that. I know my buddy had some factory pin stripe removed from his 08 impala SS at a body shop for like $20 and it took only like 10 mins. The paint looked the same as well.

Mar 6, 2014 | 01:57 PM

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sweet sounds easy enough pin stripes are deff not my thing

Mar 9, 2014 | 04:44 PM

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any of you guys run into anything behind the moldings? i was gonna peel mine off my supercrew but when i started peeling back on my driver rear door, looked like some black plastic partially recessed into the skin of the door. anyone ever seen this before?

Mar 10, 2014 | 03:50 PM

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I'm thinking about taking mine off too, except I have one question..

Since my truck is bright red, do you think I'll see any differences in the color of paint behind the molding? From sun fading and all? and I don't want to rip it off and have even brighter red behind the molding...