Will this result in a quality paint job? The car will remain the same color. Removing the moldings can be a hard task so i was just wondering.
EDIT: Found my own answer. Removing the moldings will let the paint lay down evenly and will not peel at the edges if the moldings were left on.
It all depend’s on your painter and the prep work that goes in it. Are you leaving your molding’s black or are you color matching it to your paint? If you are leaving them black i would remove them from the car just so you would’nt get overspray on them, because that’s a pain to remove. ive seen alot of great paint job’s done with the molding on too, It’s just personal preferance.
Do you have any legitimate body work experience? That is contrary to everything I have ever heard as well as my common sense.
If you paint the car w/ the moldings on the paint will be allowed to bridge the gap between the door metal and the molding rubber, that’s bad no matter how you look at it.
Ever want/need to remove the moldings later on? Now you’re going to peel back or chip your paint just to get it off.
Ever have someone ding your molding w/ their car door? If they hit it hard enough it now has the potential to damage both the molding and the door paint, opposed to just the molding paint.
Now replacing a damaged molding piece is a bigger job, you’ll have to paint the entire door instead of just the replacement molding piece.
I’m sure there are other reasons as well…
Colour sanding would be a major pain, different rates of thermal expansion and contraction between the moulding rubber and steel door skin may cause cracks, moisture or dirt may be trapped behind the moulding that will then be trapped under paint, etc…
You’re on the right track TegFan. I would definitely take them off.
[QUOTE=Colin;2006350]Do you have any legitimate body work experience? That is contrary to everything I have ever heard as well as my common sense.
If you paint the car w/ the moldings on the paint will be allowed to bridge the gap between the door metal and the molding rubber, that’s bad no matter how you look at it.
Ever want/need to remove the moldings later on? Now you’re going to peel back or chip your paint just to get it off.
Ever have someone ding your molding w/ their car door? If they hit it hard enough it now has the potential to damage both the molding and the door paint, opposed to just the molding paint.
Now replacing a damaged molding piece is a bigger job, you’ll have to paint the entire door instead of just the replacement molding piece.
I’m sure there are other reasons as well…[/QUOTE]
I have painted my own car before have you? I’m not saying it would be the right way to paint you vehicle with the molding’s on and sure the paint would bridge the gap between the body and molding’s only if you dont tape it up correctly. By the prep work i mean a good tape job, Wax and grease removal, sealer etc. Not that half ass work done by maaco. Also factor in the cost of said paint job and what kind Base coat & clear coat, or single stage. Money will alway’s determine the outcome of any project as to the original question was if he could paint the molding’s on the car without taking them off, Yes it is possible to do a good job painting your car with them on, But would recomend taking them off when you can.
Sort of, we did all the prep work for a rally car we were building but we let a more experienced person do the actual spraying…
Are you saying that if you painted the car w/ the moldings on then the correct technique would be to mask the moldings and paint them separately from the normal body panels? That seems like more work than just removing them. Personally I wouldn’t even paint a car w/ the bumpers on, basically anything that can get unbolted or removed does get unbolted or removed.
Painting a car with the trims and moldings on is sloppy. It might look good from 5’ away at 55MPH but everyone will know.
Prep work means removing the trim - period. Doing it any other way is “half ass work done by maaco”.