I was looking at my car, and remember reading that the door ding moldings might've been a dealer install option. Either way, they're staying and it also really 'says' Malibu instead of SS. But anyway, I was looking at them and there was a rubber strip glued in there at one time and there was some residual residue left and plus the stainless wasn't polished. So I took some different solvents and got the high spots and then used my friend steel wool and got just the "race track" as I call it because tape would pick up paint. Then today the 10th, (day after the 7 month delivery) finally got my mind wrapped around the rear window job. Made some measurements before the mega cut so we can be pretty precise when putting in the new metal. After that, I've been staring at a couple of holes one in each upper quarter so I cut them out.
You can see Uncle Mike's TIG in the reflection!
Marked some yellow lines and measured high point to high point and wrote right on the car! I also made a 1/2 inch away line for my cut to get rid of the rusty channel.
I wanted to cut out as little as possible but still going into good metal so that's why it's a funny shape.
Same deal here, but I thought since I'm putting in a new piece might as well replace most of the rust.
And done. I already made some paper templates and I'll cut out new pieces tomorrow.
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