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How to Remove Automotive Side Molding

You might need to remove side molding from your vehicles exterior for a variety of reasons. You might want to replace damaged or worn out molding, or you might be preparing to repaint the vehicle or do some body repair. The exterior side molding on most cars is attached with heavy duty double-sided tape. In addition to double-sided tape, some vehicles also have long plastic prongs on the backside of the molding strips that attach to the vehicle exterior through small holes on the cars body panels.

Instructions

1

Wear gloves and spray WD-40 along the full length of one piece of side molding.

2

Wait 10 minutes. To save time, you might consider spraying the other molding pieces now, if not just one or two.

3

Wrap the Spackle spatula tightly in microfiber cloth.

4

Insert the business end of the wrapped spatula between the end of the molding strip and the body panel.

5

Push the spatula toward the end of the molding strip with one hand while peeling away the molding with the other hand until you reach the end of the molding strip.

6

Spray Goo Gone on remnants of double-sided tape and work the bits and residue loose with microfiber cloth.

7

Move on to the next molding piece.