ok so i got a question for everyone im not sure what i want to do so im asking you for your opinions

keep the oem side molding go with the this side moldings or shave em off or plug the holes and keep the lowered section there (not worried about paint ) whole car needs to go to paint anyways done lots of body work in the last few months (dents, dings, replaced fenders)

 

dont be a ricer keep the molding

 

to shave or not to shave....how about just a trim?

I say keep the trim. the doors are too plain. i think it breaks the doors up nicely

 

This is true shave the door handles at most and keep the body lines in tact, I shaved my EG and it looks good but without the moldings and area for the moldings it looses something.

2 cents.

 

I think you have to either shave it completely, and make it all flush, or don't touch it at all. The shaved with lowered area looks half assed.

 

id say if you want to shave it shave it like the honda partner where the line is still there but the Holes for the trim arent there

i HATE shaving it completetly it looks very ricer . A kid had a CTR replica and every thign was amazing on that car but he had the Trim shaved to where it was flush an it looked very stupid there is a reason honda designed it to be there.
any other type of shaving kills the resale on the car

 

^I think I will disagree with you. I feel more inclinded to believe that honda put it there to prevent people from slamming their doors into yours. I have a hard time imagining a bunch of aerodynamic engineers sitting around saying "Know what would really set the styling off on this civic... a giant rubber strip going down the side."


For the OP, Here's one thing that I can guarantee you will have to do regardless of what you decide....you must take that strip off to paint the car. Don't just paint around it...you'll hate yourself afterwards.

 

well its off right now and there is gaffers tape over the holes inside the door and the back part. Ive been striping some of the parts off to make it easy when i go to paint the car. Im having a friend in my collision repair class paint it in his paint class he was in the top of his class and its his 3rd semister in the fall. the instructor encourages students to bring in vehicles to paint so that they have different vehicles to paint instead of just the paint sleds.

97ej6dx thats what i ment by the last selection on the poll

if i decide to keep the oem or go with the thin side moldings do you guys think i should match them to the cars color or just have them be black or not paint them at all and leave them just the abs plastic black

 

I hate paint matched side moldings, ABS plastic black ftw

 

I vote for thin moldings. Does anyone have a picture of a car with the channel completely shaved? I've never seen that before.

 

"just do it."

 

Here is an older photo from my hatch, it's different now and that was right after paint and no cut and buff, the door bottom is off a bit too in that photo.

--Aaron

 

im kind of leaning more toward the pluged holes like the above accord wagon i found a pic on password jdm one of the cars in the gallery the 2nd one over 4th one down its a grey ek i cant save the pic or link to it.
but here is the link to the page.
http://passwordjdm.com/Images/Gallery/John/Index.html

 

Keep the trim it's a pain in the *** to fill it in, believe me i've done it I've even filled in all body seams on a 93 civic coupe ex. Like one of the previous people said, don't be a ricer. "Ricers are like tampons, every ***** has one."

 

im not worried about it being a pain in the a$$ im in a collision repair class half my week and i have 1 day of lab where i get to do what i want as long as its automotive related and it will give me something to do

 

i like my trim like i like my gfs pubes clean shaved

 

keep everry thing original!

 

KEEP THE MOLDING THEY ARE THERE FOR A REASON, LETS SAY YOU LET SOMEONE BORROW YOUR CAR THEY GO TO FILL THE TANK AND HIT THE BIG POST IN FRONT OF THE PUMPS IF YOU SHAVE YOULL HAVE A BIG NASTY DENT ,IF YOU KEEP THE MOLDINGS NOTHING HAPPENS, I HAD MY DOORS SHAVED ON MY EK COUPE HAD TO PAINT THE WHOLE THING CUZ OF IT NEVER LET STUPID PEOPLE DRIVE YOUR CARS!!!

 

id go thin side moldings, thats what im about to buy for my own car

 

x2 lmao! Anyone can buy side moudlings or even paint over them.Not everyone can shave thier doors hey by

 

If you have money you just want to throw away and are bored with your car, I guess you should go ahead and do it.

If you can't figure out anything better to do with your money then go ahead and do it.

 

just like you said, don't let people borrow your car, then you won't have anyone slam against stuff like gas pumps.

 

i am shaving the moldings on my 1993 coupe like the CX

 

ok what are you working on? on EG's you can just plug the holes for the moldings EK''s you can paint to match and DC's you can shave the moldings anything more than that and its riced out..

 

Just leave the factory side moldings, you will regret shaving moldings and such down the road