Painting the plastic side moldings and tailgate handle
I am thinking of painting the grey plastic molding on the side of my 03 Tundra and the tailgate handel is there any way for the plastic to be as glossy as the rest of the truck. Also which would look best with the chrome strip or with-out the chrome strip. My truck is a Dark Blue color.
The side mldgs have a textured surface they can be painted but never will look like the truck take a look at a 01-03 rav-4 bumpers they have the same texture and don't match up to the truck good mettalic paint looks even worse because of the high and low spots.I run a collision shop in Michigan and we specialize on Toyotas.
2003 tundra stepside v8 300 miles
tons of upgrade coming soon.
You can buy matching side moldings and tailgate handle from a dealer.
The handle is fairly cheap, like, under $50.00 but the side moldings are not. They are about $70.00 to $80.00 per section.
These items are from the limited model of Tundra.
Chuck
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I just put up a couple of pics of my truck with the BSM I got to replace the stock black. I used 1 3/8" white from a local wholesale auto trim place whose name was given to me by a body shop I've used. It cost $21 for the two 8' strips. Pretty cheap mod that I wish I'd done a long time ago. Huge props to ND1169 for giving me the idea in the first place!
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22x9.5 ADR Magnus wrapped in Toyo Proxes S/T 305/40/22, S&S long tube headers & Y-pipe, R.A.P.S., Trenz grill, clear corners, X-Pel Clear Bra, HID Conversion Kit, 55W auxiliary reverse lights, Sir Michaels roll pan w/ hidden hitch, EuroTails, DeBadged, Granite dash kit, IS color keyed bumper, fender flares & mirror covers, Hellwig Anti-Sway Bar, CST leather interior, sound deadener all 4 doors, rear wall and floor pans, Nu-image guage cluster & A/C panel, blue split loom, PPD billet TB cover and fuse box cover, painted calipers & drums, dropped the rear 2" w/Belltech 6400, Color-keyed body side molding, Alpine H/U, Archos 20GB Jukebox Multimedia wired to H/U, JBL 1200.1 pushing 2 RE XXX 10s in a custom console box, RF 551X pushing Diamond Audio M561 comps in the doors and Alpine SPR-175 comps in the kicks, and JL Audios in rear straight from the H/U
All good questions, Agent. I've been PMing with so many different members about this, I'd forgotten whether I posted about this or not.
How do they stick on, just with some double side tape? Did you have to trim the new molding to fit at all?
Same kind of stuff that you'll find under the badges and factory BSM. I didn't have to trim much. I just had to cut it to length where the doors meet.
How long did it take to complete?
The longest part of the job is removing the gray sticky stuff under the stock BSM. I'd say total for both sides was 4-5 hours.
I assume the trim that came off of the bed didn't have any holes behind it, correct?
Correctomundo!
Lastly, did it come painted or did that cost you extra?
Fortunately, I found it in a white that was slightly brighter than the natural white on my truck. It isn't enough difference to merit the extra cost and potential for chipping/peeling IMHO. In the Cowles Products CATALOG it shows the following colors available:
01 - Black
02 - White
03 - Dark Blue
04 - High Gloss Black
05 - Red
06 - Maroon
07 - Brown
08 - Buckskin
09 - Gold
12 - Silver
14 - Lt. Green Metallic
15 - Lt. Blue Metallic
16 - Dk.Blue Metallic
19 - Firethorn
22 - Dove Gray
23 - Med. Beige
24 - OEM Gold
25 - Med. Blue Metallic
26 - Camel Beige
30 - Dk. Green Metallic
33 - Dk. Carmine Metallic
41 - Slate Gray Metallic
42 - Dk. Gray Fern Metallic
45 - Dk. Sandstone
48 - Dk. Briar Metallic
49 - Autumn Maple Metallic
53 - Gunmetal
54 - Dk. Red Metallic
55 - Sage Metallic
57 - OEM White
58 - Green Pearl
59 - Cashmere
60 - Frost White
61 - Red Pearl
62 - Sage Green
63 - Green Pearl - Honda
Hopefully, one would be close enough for you to use. Good luck and thanks for the compliments!
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__________________ White 2000 SR5 4x2 Tundra
22x9.5 ADR Magnus wrapped in Toyo Proxes S/T 305/40/22, S&S long tube headers & Y-pipe, R.A.P.S., Trenz grill, clear corners, X-Pel Clear Bra, HID Conversion Kit, 55W auxiliary reverse lights, Sir Michaels roll pan w/ hidden hitch, EuroTails, DeBadged, Granite dash kit, IS color keyed bumper, fender flares & mirror covers, Hellwig Anti-Sway Bar, CST leather interior, sound deadener all 4 doors, rear wall and floor pans, Nu-image guage cluster & A/C panel, blue split loom, PPD billet TB cover and fuse box cover, painted calipers & drums, dropped the rear 2" w/Belltech 6400, Color-keyed body side molding, Alpine H/U, Archos 20GB Jukebox Multimedia wired to H/U, JBL 1200.1 pushing 2 RE XXX 10s in a custom console box, RF 551X pushing Diamond Audio M561 comps in the doors and Alpine SPR-175 comps in the kicks, and JL Audios in rear straight from the H/U
That is a great mod.Ease of waxing would be why I will do it someday.That list keep growing ,but no xtra $$
Thanks for sharing the info!
But I gotta say in your pics I really like the HOOD SCOOP on that modded mini!!
RichR
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Originally posted by RichR That is a great mod.Ease of waxing would be why I will do it someday.That list keep growing ,but no xtra $$
Thanks for sharing the info!
But I gotta say in your pics I really like the HOOD SCOOP on that modded mini!!
RichR
RichR,
LMAO about the hood scoop comment. I knew just what you were talking about w/o even looking.
__________________ White 2000 SR5 4x2 Tundra
22x9.5 ADR Magnus wrapped in Toyo Proxes S/T 305/40/22, S&S long tube headers & Y-pipe, R.A.P.S., Trenz grill, clear corners, X-Pel Clear Bra, HID Conversion Kit, 55W auxiliary reverse lights, Sir Michaels roll pan w/ hidden hitch, EuroTails, DeBadged, Granite dash kit, IS color keyed bumper, fender flares & mirror covers, Hellwig Anti-Sway Bar, CST leather interior, sound deadener all 4 doors, rear wall and floor pans, Nu-image guage cluster & A/C panel, blue split loom, PPD billet TB cover and fuse box cover, painted calipers & drums, dropped the rear 2" w/Belltech 6400, Color-keyed body side molding, Alpine H/U, Archos 20GB Jukebox Multimedia wired to H/U, JBL 1200.1 pushing 2 RE XXX 10s in a custom console box, RF 551X pushing Diamond Audio M561 comps in the doors and Alpine SPR-175 comps in the kicks, and JL Audios in rear straight from the H/U
Thanks, TSA. I bet this would look great on the Stepside, too.
I got the following as a PM, so I thought I'd post it for everyone's benefit: where did you purchase your side moldings,and how did your remove the existing ones,any modification needed after removal? or did the new ones fit directly.
I got them from a local place called Penn Industries, but I think the best idea is just to call your auto body shop and ask where they'd get BSM. I removed the stock BSM when it was about 100° outside and I'd left the truck in the sun, then just got one edge up using fishing line like the debadging, then just pulled it off by hand. No modifications other than cutting to length. I just put the new ones on after cleaning off all the gray sticky stuff from the stock BSM.
__________________ White 2000 SR5 4x2 Tundra
22x9.5 ADR Magnus wrapped in Toyo Proxes S/T 305/40/22, S&S long tube headers & Y-pipe, R.A.P.S., Trenz grill, clear corners, X-Pel Clear Bra, HID Conversion Kit, 55W auxiliary reverse lights, Sir Michaels roll pan w/ hidden hitch, EuroTails, DeBadged, Granite dash kit, IS color keyed bumper, fender flares & mirror covers, Hellwig Anti-Sway Bar, CST leather interior, sound deadener all 4 doors, rear wall and floor pans, Nu-image guage cluster & A/C panel, blue split loom, PPD billet TB cover and fuse box cover, painted calipers & drums, dropped the rear 2" w/Belltech 6400, Color-keyed body side molding, Alpine H/U, Archos 20GB Jukebox Multimedia wired to H/U, JBL 1200.1 pushing 2 RE XXX 10s in a custom console box, RF 551X pushing Diamond Audio M561 comps in the doors and Alpine SPR-175 comps in the kicks, and JL Audios in rear straight from the H/U
If I had known that the bsm was only being held in place by the same adhesive as the badges I would have pulled them off when I skinned the badges, TRD stickers, et al. I just assumed that they used some kind of plastic fastener that required fairly large holes, similar to the TRD vinyl fender flares.
Thanks for posting all the info. I am about to go out and start ripping mine off! It is supposed to be 110'F today so it should aid in loosening up adhesive.
what year tundra do you have, because I have an 01 and I swear that when I was doing sound deadning that the molding was help in place with plastic clipse through the door.
My truck is also 2001 and I did remove the small pieces of bsm that are on the bedsides this afternoon. Just thought I would start small and see how it looked; plus I wanted to get wax on that area as soon as I got it cleaned up. It went just as OKC had described in his post. The adhesive 'tape' rolled up pretty easily and I finished off the remains with some mineral spirits.
I like the look so much that when I get done taking the big pieces off the doors I may not even put color-keyed molding on. I may just keep it totally 'shaved.' I will post some pics when I get it all done.
Painting the plastic side moldings and tailgate handle
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