Re: M-tech M3-style moldings

["Ron Buchalski" <rbuchals@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Brendon,

The moldings attach to the side with plastic clips.  The back side of the 
molding has a channel molded into it, and the plastic clips slide into the 
channel.  The side panels of the car have a series of holes, into which the 
plastic clips are inserted.

Removing the old molding will probably result in breaking some of the clips. 
  Since the wider M-Tech moldings use a different style clip, it doesn't 
really matter.

Just for 'fun' I pulled the M-Tech moldings off the front fenders of my '95 
M3.  There are three plastic clips holding each fender molding in place - 
two clips are the same, the third clip (the forward-most clip, closest to 
the fender lip), is different.

It seems like it should be possible to do some sort of 'disengage and slide' 
operation to remove the moldings, where the front clip is disengaged, and 
the molding is slid backwards slightly, and then removed from the car, but I 
didn't spend enough time studying it to figure out exactly how it should be 
done.

Perhaps someone else on the list can comment.  I haven't seen the non-MTech 
molding, so I'm not sure how it compares to the MTech design.

- -rb

>
>Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 15:16:10 -0800
>From: Brendon Macaraeg <brendonm@domain.elided>
>Subject: M-tech M3-style moldings
>
>Has anyone replaced their old moldings with the M-tech M-3 style
>moldings?
>A few years ago, I could never understand why people would try
>to make, say, a 325i, look like an M3 when it's not under the hood.
>But those moldings do look cool; my current ones are getting kinda
>drab looking so something as small as new molding would give the car
>a "new" feel I guess.
>
>Has anyone replaced their moldings on a 328i sedan?  What's involved?
>Do I have to remove the inner door panels to put these on?
>How hard is it to get the old moldings off.
>Would just like to know before I order the moldings from Bavauto.
>
>Thanks for any advice in advance,
>- -B


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