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soapster
2nd February 2009, 13:05
Hi,
My wife has a 1997 Mk1 VTR in Posiedon Blue, she has owned the car since new,80,000 miles. The passenger side external doortrim/bump strip is comming off I have had a look and its not just the fastening clips that are broken, the metal brakets to which the clips are fixed have come away from the trim. Has anyone any experience of fixing the brackets back to the trim, they must be glued/heat welded during manafacture. If this is not viable any ideas about fixing the trim back without removal Ive read a lot about Tiger seal but cant see how this will work as the bump strip is a large void?

Or has anyone got a trim in the North yorks area??

thanks Soapy
blackvtrt
2nd February 2009, 19:55
you can just expoxy resin the clips back on mate, dries quicker than tiger seal and grips plastic nicely
soapster
2nd February 2009, 21:13
Thanks,

Will give it a go when there are no Polar Bears lurking!!!
paul1990
3rd May 2009, 17:04
this might be daft thing to ask but how do you remove the trim on the side of the car and also the black bits on the front and back of the car i want to spary them and put them back on
cheers
paul1990
3rd May 2009, 17:05
sorry to hijack this thread lol
Matty_VTR
3rd May 2009, 18:48
this might be daft thing to ask but how do you remove the trim on the side of the car and also the black bits on the front and back of the car i want to spary them and put them back on
cheers

You need to carefully pries them off, note they are also fixed with tigerseal glue stuff so can be quite hard to get them off.
paul1990
3rd May 2009, 19:51
You need to carefully pries them off, note they are also fixed with tigerseal glue stuff so can be quite hard to get them off.

so a take it that you would use tigerseal to put them back on aswel , so is it the same for the bumper aswel at the back and front?? daft things to ask i know lol
cheers:y:
HeathyGT
3rd May 2009, 19:56
so a take it that you would use tigerseal to put them back on aswel , so is it the same for the bumper aswel at the back and front?? daft things to ask i know lol
cheers:y:

bumpers are all one piece mate
paul1990
3rd May 2009, 20:09
bumpers are all one piece mate

how do you mean ? basicly i want to remove the front bumper and spray it and do the same with the front ,i dont like the black bits thik would look better all red,ant idea how i would go about it