Goldfinger

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I have finally started the process of painting my 90 vert and am in the prep phase. I want to remove as much trim, etc. as possible to get it done right but I am struggling with removal of the three pieces of side molding between the wheels. I looked at the factory manual and saw that the front and rear most pieces of trim were easy to pop off with a plastic trim removal tool. Got them with no problem but now I am a bit stumped with the other three pieces on each side. If I am reading the manual correctly at least one of them is attached with heavy duty molding tape. But when I look at a picture of someone else's S5 being painted I see what appears to be some holes in the door where the moulding should attach.

So the question is whether or not I can pop all the molding off the side of the car? If I have to clean 3M tape off then re-tape it I will probably leave the molding on the car when I shoot the paint.

Thanks for any help.

87 t-66

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take a couple screw drivers and slowly pry it off...the tabs on the back will likely break off but can be reattached.

Goldfinger

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So there are tabs that fit into holes in the body versus it just being stuck on with 3M molding tape? I want to confirm that this section of molding has tabs that fit in holes versus the tape. The FSM is not real clear on that.

87 t-66

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mine had plastic clips that snapped into holes in the body

n.taluckder

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same here plus some black adhesive around the trim couldve been old 3m

Rx-7heaven

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if you wanted to take the time of removing your door panels, you can have full access to the clips with the windows up.