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[mrchaz]

An Astra?

[Pedro]

The best way would be to remove it, get some automotive tape from a factors, an either fit the spare one, or remould the old one with a heat gun, applying the tape and refitting.

Twat of a job TBH!!!

[HMK]

Yes, I know this problem very well

My girlfriend's Metro had exactly the same problem last summer. As it was sticking out from the drivers door at both ends of the trim piece quite badly (would have failed the mot on dangerous bodywork projections), so I pulled the length of trim completely off. I used some double sided tape that I had to hand to stick it back on again, but it started to come away again in less that a week, so for safety we had to remove it altogether once again

It's still off to this day & is laying on the floor in the hallway of my house

Although she's not really bothered about it being missing I may get some proper tape from a motor factors & see if this is better than the stuff that I had on a reel in the house & I may have to resort to the brutality of the 'drill' & a 'self tapping screw' in each end of the trim piece, though it seems a pity to drill holes in an otherwise perfect, rot free door - even on a Metro

This is the good thing about the Carlton........all this sort of trim is fitted on by 'clips' The exception being the rear wheel arch trim on the pre-facelift & all GSi's - how stupid to use this 'stuck on' method on this one bit of vulnerable trim, but use clips for all the rest, IMO

[HMK]

Hiya   Yes, looking back now, I think that I should have just drilled a hole through the trim & door at each end & put in a couple of self tappers The rest of the length of trim was still quite well attached - as I found out when I pulled it off

If you do the job right, you can recess the screw head & fill the hole with some black sealent to hide the fact that there's a screw there

[Dave the Builder]

 The spare one I managed to get off the donour car is completely strait (that is why it took so long to get off,cus i was CAREFULLY removing it so it did not bend)
 Just rip the other bent one off and get some good quality double sided foam trim mount off ebay,clean the door well (t cut is good,but remove all dust) then stick it on.
 the hard part is parting with the £10-£15 for the trim mount 

[flash911]

Hiya   Yes, looking back now, I think that I should have just drilled a hole through the trim & door at each end & put in a couple of self tappers The rest of the length of trim was still quite well attached - as I found out when I pulled it off

If you do the job right, you can recess the screw head & fill the hole with some black sealent to hide the fact that there's a screw there

might have to do this on mine sticks out badly on all the bits bar one ffs

[Land-Barge]

I have just removed all the door and arch trims from an early carlton in the scrappy, the best way to do it without wrecking the trim is to get a large paint/wallpaper scraper and carefully push it up behind the trim so that it breaks the seal.  Repeat all the way along til the trim falls off in your hands

As for sticking them on use double sided foam tape from B&Q, ive used their tape on my rear arch trims and theyre still stuck fast