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Painting rear window trim pieces?
Question for you guys who have done repaints the "right way".......
How do you go about painting the trim pieces up by the rear window - where the "Subaru SVX" logo goes on the 93-97 models. Is it best to remove them? If so, how? What about that black seal or whatever that goes around them? Does that get masked, pulled off and re-used, or replaced? Bonus question: What would be the best way to fill in the antenna hole?
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Re: Painting rear window trim pieces?
They are clipped on, if you lift the trunk you will see the one clip, there may be two more (one towards the front and one in the middle) to secure it.
The weatherstripping is not available separately, trust me I tried. A new varnish (i believe that's what they are called) comes from subaru with new weatherstripping, I ending up buying both new and had them painted professionally. |
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Re: Painting rear window trim pieces?
They're called a garnish. There are about 7 clips on each side, most of which you will not be able to access from inside the car. Simply grap onto the garnish and yank it off. You will break the clips. There is no way around this.
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Re: Painting rear window trim pieces?
Yes the clips will break along with the holders that keep them in place. When I did mine a had to 143 FUSOR them back together and spent about $30 on new clips for both sides. As for the weatherstrip around it, it's held on with tape so I removed it and retaped it.
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Re: Painting rear window trim pieces?
If you're ridiculously careful, you may be able to not-break SOME of the clip holders. I was able to do this. But the more garnish panels I removed, the more clip holders I broke. i.e.: It did not get easier with practice. I removed 2 from a parts car of the color I was looking for, then I removed the original 2 from my car. And it wasn't all on the same day! (At least I don't think so.) I really didn't have to be as careful with the ones I removed from my car, since I was replacing them, but I did plan to be. It was still aggonizing! The clip holders are molded from the same plastic piece as the exterior of the garnish. They are U-shaped, but the open end of the U's point in different directions, so it's not as simple as just sliding the whole strip in one direction to free it from the clips. I think I used a screw driver and/or a similarly shaped prying tool that ends in 2 forked prongs. If you save the broken pieces of the clip holders, you may be able to glue some of them back on. That's something I did too.
Rather than pay the extra money for new Subaru clips, I made life more difficult by buying somewhat similar generic clips, and modifying them. They had 2 parallel insert disks on each stem, making the clips too long. I cut the stem between the 2 disks, shortening the stem and doing away with the extra disk. The results are not as good as using the Subaru clips, but they are "good enough". Some of the crucial holders wouldn't accomodate these modified clips. Luckily I didn't break all of the original clips, and I reused them wherever I could. Not all of the clips/holders are crucial. You can get away with using less clips than the number that they originally came with, as some people have done. |
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Re: Painting rear window trim pieces?
I have seen some tools that you slide under the garnish and then pop off the clips. I found some of the tools online, but they were sold out, so I don't have them yet.
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