I'm thinking about painting my lowers this summer, but am a little worried about the rubber strip at the bottom of the doors. Are there any holes behind them? Will removing them let water into my car? Post a picture if you have one of a car with just painted lowers.

Thanks,

Cory

 

Wait, what? You leave them on the car.

 

But mine are tearing at the back edge and getting crappy. Also, I have done paint for a few years, and know that paint cracks on rubber. How do yours look?

 

Prob better to replace the rubber you have and then paint. Behind the rubber are clips which hold it onto your door and then one screw at the end. If you wanted to remove the rubber strip, you would have to remove the plastic clips, and thengrind off the rivets or whatever that were holding the clips on. Then fill in the hole for the screw. Then make it all look perfect and respray your door etc. So you either want to replace the rubber and paint it or get side skirts I think.

 

So, instead of replacing them, you want to just leave them off? It can be done...there's some guy with a poo colored car (I think...or maybe it's grey) that did that, but he bondoed the holes and then resprayed the whole car. Much simpler to just replace the lowers. I think they're like $35 from ECS.

Mine look fine. There are no cracks on the rubber (yet or ever, time will tell).

 

Cool,

Thanks for the info guys. I will be replacing them as you suggested, because I don't want to bust out the bondo at this stage in the game.

Thanks,

Cory

 

Yeah I'm the guy with the "poo" colored car Thanks sineo. Butany who yeah theres pins you have the snap off and fill or grind smooth.Its alot of work to do It alot easier to just replace the molding and then paint them.Mine were painted before and they looked nice but where old, rusted behind and the rest of the car needed some work so I just did the whole car up.

 

I had your car mixed up with someone else's...I'm glad it's the grey one and not the poo one.

 

poo colored car FTMFW !!!!!!! LOL that made my day considering im thinking of shaving the doors and lower moulding now that i have to repaint and body work the poo out of it since my car got railed at the post office by an old lady just before i walked out to see it...

 

My audi is in the bodyshop right now getting all the rivets shaved off the doors, doors resprayed, lowers painted all the way around the car, and fenders rolled and repainted