It seems like when most people get their crx painted, they opt to paint the black trim along with the rest of the body. I dont know if they do it cause its easier, or because they think it looks better... but I personally have grown to like the two tone look with the black plastic trim.

I guess one of the problems is that the black trim on most crxs has faded by now... so I was thinking, what would it look like if you got the trim painted w/ black paint, and clear coated w/ the rest of the car? Has anyone done this two their crx?

Or, it it possible to replace the pieces w/ new oem honda pieces? I just got a new crx and it has new front and rear bumpers from honda and the only pieces really fading are the ones that run along the door. Along with that, i would REALLY like to replace the window trim as it is also fading. Anyone have the part numbers for these, and know how you could go about ordering them?

Thanks a lot. I tried to post this in the appearance forum first, but it said I didnt have permission

 

paint it man...i did mine

 

For the door trim, if you're talking about the the vertical piece after the window I bought mine straight from a honda dealership, but I had a friend that worked there and it was only $50. But with no discount it would have been around $75 I think.

 

I hes talking about all the trims, (door mouldings/ bottom of door)

Personally to me it depends on the color of the crx. Seriously

If you want to keep them black. Just take them off and spray paint the black and them clear coat them.

After you get your car back painted, reinstall them, isnt difficult.

I would take them off the car anyways if I was painting is so you get the entire colour change

Really up to you, to me it depends on teh colors and style of the car

 

Check http://www.hondaautomotiveparts.com for part numbers.. they have just about everything

I would stay with the black trim

 

I love the way my car looks right now, but when i get it repainted i think im gonna go back to my roots and get the molding painted

 

not a rex but hope it helps..





and another idea is to just shave the modling holes

 

I like moldings...

 

not to long ago someone posted about using peanut butter on them because of some minerals or something in the the peanut butter, it looked pretty good. i just use that back to black stuff for a temp. fix when i wash the car( looks good for a day)

 

my black trim was faded, so i taped off everything and repainted the trim with black flexible bumper paint i picked up from autozone.

here is a pic after repainting the trim

 

Not a CRX but I decided to not paint the moldings.

Before:


After:

 

I have a 91 CRX hf I am working on. Had it since new. I'm gonna get it repainted the original color (white).

Much of the trim is faded, so I have priced out OEM replace parts for the whole car. Something around 1000$. But this is for every external trim piece. Took me an afternoon to carefully check each peice and find the price on Majestic Honda.

 

Leave it black ! I hate painted moldings.

 

that bumper paint looks really good! How is it holding up? The only problem I foresee is that the trim on the front and rear bumpers dont come off, so I guess I would HAVE to get that painted white also, and then paint them black myself.

 

were u refering to me? the paint has kind of faded off, i will do it again here when it cools down a little

 

Thats it im painting my moldings.

 

paint tat shiet pink

 

keep em, and leave em black

 

its easy to paint the whole car one color instead of taping off the moldings

Mine

 

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here is a pic after repainting the trim

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How much taping did you do? Weren't you worried about overspray on the white paint?

 

EL, I your title

Leave the molding black, two tone looks MUCH better then one color imo.

 

leave it black

 

Paint them black with the duracolor trim paint:





Maxim

 

haha, should have used playboy

 

I personally like the moldings!