Wow, okay, so this is how to properly do it! Tempted as others have said to do it just on the car.. but no doubt this will have a better finish. My biggest concern would be rattles from the door cards if I don't do it right! Do a lot of motorway miles and am still impressed with how comfortable and quiet this car is compared to a lot of newer cars.
You do need to be careful with the door panels but, even so, some of the clips may break (old plastic). You can find replacements pretty cheap on eBay etc though, so it’s not the end of the world.
@@MikeMacful I'll put a weekend aside for this job. Great walkthrough of how to do it 👍🏼 Apart from the horrible job of removing the AC grommet to stop the wet floors this car has been fantastic to me!
Awesome! Never seen these trims removed. Most people in the Lexus is250 community just tend to cut the epoxied rubber off and hydrodip/vinyl wrap all the chrome whilst on the car. This is a bit more work but a far more cleaner finish.
The reason why it's peeling is not because it's Chrome but because it's aluminum before you paint it brush it with some sort of steel wool I like to use SOS pot scrubber this will remove the finish that was on it from the manufacturing of it that's the problem with these trims they're not treated properly before they're painted they just paint over raw aluminum which has oxidation and oils that aren't removed that's why it always peels because they're cheap
Well I was looking to see how this is done that's too much work to get those off I'm just going to mask them sand and prep put a good primer on that buff aluminum and paint them
Mine is the same on one window and at the top it looks like exactly the same process - but I’m not sure about the back bit - it looks like a thicker layer than the rest…
I’ve not done that, so not sure, but it should just be a case of removing the internal trim surround (probably need to get the door card off first) and there should be clips or screws holding the outer trim on.
