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So I painted my window trim today black from chrome. I cannot for the life of me get the rear passenger side door to go back on? any tips or tricks? all the rest seem to go on fine, but this one just won't stay on. The clips aren't broken from what I can tell?

 

 

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You could try rolling the window down and looking where the clips are on the molding in relation to the sockets they fit in on the door. They may have slipped on the molding??

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You could try rolling the window down and looking where the clips are on the molding in relation to the sockets they fit in on the door. They may have slipped on the molding??

 

Yea i looked at that and they seem to be lined up, I'm thinking maybe i have bent the whole thing open somehow. In the process i messed up the black dip so tomorrow looks like im going to re-dip it and try again haha.

 

Plastidip?

 

Yes, if i ever do it again or give advice to anyone i would have rather left them on the truck and dipped them. Just mask everything off good which wouldn't be hard. Just make sure after your last coat you peel off the tape while its still wet so it doesn't try to pull it off when it dry's.

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That's why I asked. I would have left them on to plastidip.

 

Whatever you do, DO NOT remove the tape when it's wet. Let it sit for 30 mins like the can says and the tape comes right off without peeling any plastidip off. The plastidip comes off really clean when it's wet. Paint - remove tape when semi dry. Plastidip - remove tape when completely dry.

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Your clip is broken. If you look at the clip in the picture, the dead center of the clip should have a smaller tab on it. I had the same trouble with mine. Luckily I had my chrome trim still and just used the clips off of it. post-54656-147801075863_thumb.png

 

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Your clip is broken. If you look at the clip in the picture, the dead center of the clip should have a smaller tab on it. I had the same trouble with mine. Luckily I had my chrome trim still and just used the clips off of it. attachicon.gif20161101_093213.png

 

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You beat me to it. He is 100% correct about the smaller tab being broken off.

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That's why I asked. I would have left them on to plastidip.

 

Whatever you do, DO NOT remove the tape when it's wet. Let it sit for 30 mins like the can says and the tape comes right off without peeling any plastidip off. The plastidip comes off really clean when it's wet. Paint - remove tape when semi dry. Plastidip - remove tape when completely dry.

 

I just re-did it today and and did 3 coats and right after i sprayed the last coat i peeled the tape off and it worked perfect. The first time I did it I waited until all were dry and it didn't work well at all. peeling the tape off wet made it 10x better.

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Your clip is broken. If you look at the clip in the picture, the dead center of the clip should have a smaller tab on it. I had the same trouble with mine. Luckily I had my chrome trim still and just used the clips off of it. attachicon.gif20161101_093213.png

 

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oh ok I had all the rest on so I didn't have any others to look at, it didn't look broken to me but I wasn't sure. thank you. Do you know what they should look like? I will make a trip to GMC and order some.

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I did my rear bow tie and pulled the tape off wet after the 4th coat and it didn't peel off cleanly. I waited 30 mins like the cam said for the front and it came off 10x easier and I didn't have to use a toothpick to get all the little crap out.

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I did my rear bow tie and pulled the tape off wet after the 4th coat and it didn't peel off cleanly. I waited 30 mins like the cam said for the front and it came off 10x easier and I didn't have to use a toothpick to get all the little crap out.

 

I waited for it to dry on all my emblems and GMC emblem on the front but I also taped off and left a gap like everyone does. That worked great, but on the window trim I taped them off right against the chrome on the top because there isn't much of a line or anything for the dip to cut itself cleanly. If in situations where you tape it off real close to your line or can, its best to peel tape when its wet. It came off clean as a whistle, I've done it both ways just on the trim this worked alot better.

 

I also only waited about 5-6 minutes in between coats this time with the trim, where as before I waited about 10 minutes or more between coats, so i'm sure some of your coats before were pretty well dry so that made a difference in it not coming off clean.

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Does anybody have the part numbers for the clips? I broke mine as well... all of them...

 

 

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