Hey guys I've searched and couldn't find any results but here's my question.

On a good amount of civics and as well as mine, the weather stripping where the front doors are is starting to peel.

It's the black section that separates the bottom of the window and top of the door.
here's the exact piece I am talking about


How can I strip/replace it?
The clips seem to be set in there good so I would have to break each clip but can they be replaced?

also is there any product I should re-spray the piece with? black paint? rubberized paint?


thanks

 

i always bought my outter door weather stripping new from the dealership or found good condition ones from the junkyards only if they're nice enough to part it from the door itself.

1. take off your inner door panel
2. take off your outter door b pillar garnish
3. pop off the weather stripping from the inside of the car outwards

 

theres 2 way of doing this one replacing them. But there 70 dollars at the dealer. or you can take them off and strip them/ paint them.

To remove them just role down the window and start from the side without the mirror and up up on just the strip. The plastic clips are strong so just pull. then do what you want to them and replace them by starting at the mirror. Hope this helped. Enjoy!

 

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What is that exactly? I've took my door appart a few times but I'm bad with names of certain things


thanks for the help so far
Any recomendations on what to paint it with?

 

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What is that exactly? I've took my door appart a few times but I'm bad with names of certain things


thanks for the help so far
Any recomendations on what to paint it with?</TD></TR></TABLE>

I think he means that piece next to the piece you highlighted... the vertical piece at the end of the door near the rear quarter windows...

If its completely worn out, where it's all silver... i heard you can try painting them... not sure though

 

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What is that exactly? I've took my door appart a few times but I'm bad with names of certain things

thanks for the help so far
Any recomendations on what to paint it with?</TD></TR></TABLE>

outside black plastic piece just to the right of your outline in your picture.

 

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ok ok awesome

thanks I'll try this sometime this week

 

Trim paint works wonders. I just did my side mouldings and about to do my OEM side skirts, comes out nice.

 

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do you sand down the old paint? how many coats do you do? looking into repainting all my OE-black parts

 

i think that u wrinkle black would be the best thing to use, that's what it looks like

 

I electrical taped mine. No one can even tell unless I specifically tell them. Pretty good fix untill I can think of something better.

 

the part is actually supposed to be a rubber-type coating on the metal.
At least that's what mine look/feel like. I replaced mine with new ones honda.

I've always wondered if that rubberizing tool handle dipping crap would work the same.... if you can find it in black that is.

 

whatever it is they use, do you not think its a good idea not to use it again? lol otherwise ur just gonna end up wiht a stripped peice of metal again

a buddy of mine took his out and sanded them down and spray painted them.. looked okay but he used flat black spray so it didnt turn out as nicely as a good shiny black could have

 

looked these up and they're like $60 from HAP.com

wtf. i ruined mine today and can't aford new ones

 

mine would strip and peel off too

 

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oh wow, i thought i was the only one that did that. yeah it works fine unless you actually tell the people.
cheap fix who cares if its ghetto.

 

this may be dumb, but is there a company such as say depo, that makes an oem copy of this piece?

 

TTT again

today I tried to replace the driverside window molding and it's near impossible

I pulled on it gently but feel like i will bend the molding
I tried to get it free from the inside of the door and the plastics look like once they break then they aren't replaceable