Anyone know how to restore Door trim?

[thepowderblue]

The door trim is faded on my cb7's. Anyone know how to bring the life back into it?

[CyborgGT]

Interior or exterior? For the inside panel with the door handle, pocket,etc just replace with new materials. Outside, if you mean the bump guards or those flat vertical slats, just sand, prime, sand, paint, and clear. I think the clips will break if you try taking the mouldings off, but it can be done while they're on the car if you're careful.

[thepowderblue]

exterior. How do they come off?

[tommi]

paint em, they make black "trim" paint.

[benjerman112]

Here is a DIY to paint them.
http://www.cb7tuner.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=98604

[thepowderblue]

I dont want to paint them. I want to know if anyone knows how to RESTORE them.

[benjerman112]

Heard a heat gun/hair dryer works, and I think some stuff called mothers back to black?

[phantomcow2]

I can't say I've tried it, but my course of action would be to sand down with finer and finer sandpaper to take off the faded layer of vinyl.

[k20si]

back to black. or stoner spray... you will have a hard time finding stoner spray offline...http://www.detailingdirect.com/DDAeroDress.htm

[HATCHing]

The long lasting or permenant fix is to paint it.
All those spray/apply on stuff like black to black is just a temporary fix, it will dull again in 3-5 days.

[H-TownCB7]

Ur best off with heat gun.make them look like they are brand spanking new

[nicholasjacker]

Just get new door panels

[honda_acc5]

you can try to polish them if thats works for you... or simply paint them..those are the only solutions you have..

[daovangphotos]

I wet sanded the mouldings with 800 grit.
Then after washing them down, i applied this:



It lasts until it gets wet from liquid, then you will have faded marks from where the liquid was on the trim.

So pretty much, i apply the trim detailer after every wash, but the wet sanding, i did it once.

[thepowderblue]

Just get new door panels

We are not talking about door panels lol.