black & red body side moldings

82and92 · Post by **82and92** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 7:59 pm

I just bought a nearly new 92 cabby (my 82 is just too finicky). The 92 car has black bodyside moldings with red centerlines. Never saw these before - owner (original) says they are original to the car. Anyone know of black and red body side moldings? Car is white with white top.

Post by **kuklaki** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 1:00 am

I honestly can say I have not ever seen trim on a Cabriolet such as you described-I've just seen the solid black and the black/chrome.

Interesting, have you any pics? And Welcome to TRF!

VWnoob · Post by **VWnoob** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 2:07 pm

Welcome to the board!
No, I can honestly say that I have never seen any Cabby's with black/Red mouldings.
Like Kuklaki said, just solid black or black/chrome.

When I got my Cabby (black), I had the black/chrome mouldings. But the front passenger side was missing. So I pulled them all off, got 1/2" black pinstriping and ran it in the moulding grooves to cover the lil holes left behind. Its a good/temporary fix to the problem.

Jim

Post by **Briano1234** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 3:25 pm

VWnoob wrote:Welcome to the board!
No, I can honestly say that I have never seen any Cabby's with black/Red mouldings.
Like Kuklaki said, just solid black or black/chrome.

When I got my Cabby (black), I had the black/chrome mouldings. But the front passenger side was missing. So I pulled them all off, got 1/2" black pinstriping and ran it in the moulding grooves to cover the lil holes left behind. Its a good/temporary fix to the problem.

Jim

My question is I have seen those but not on a cabby, are they the flat rubberised clip on or the two-sided sticky tape kind. On my Diesel bunny and LS model it had the 2sided sticky tape moulding that was Chrome on the edges and tan in the middle. It may have been changed by the owner/ dealer

kamzcab86 · Post by **kamzcab86** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 10:22 pm

Red from the factory? No. If the original owner did not do it, then the dealer is the most likely suspect in painting the center of the trim red.

lowredcabrio · Post by **lowredcabrio** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 11:07 pm

not factory. but hey not saying its not cool. i wanna see it now!

CalAltaDubber · Post by **CalAltaDubber** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 9:04 am

I'd love to see pictures. It sounds great.

I have no doubt that the trim is OEM, but it has probably been painted to give that "out of the ordinary" appearence. My 2 cents worth anyway.

Please show us some pictures.

82and92 · Post by **82and92** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 10:23 pm

Thank you all for the replies on the red/black moldings. I'll send pictures tomorrow (when I'm back in town and can access my photos).
Center of trim sure does NOT look painted, and all of the ends look like OEM equipment. Maybe we'll know more once you guys see the pix.

Post by **Briano1234** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 11:41 pm

I have seen them use body tape like pinstripe tape. whouldn't suprise me if they did it that way

1lowcab · Post by **1lowcab** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 1:32 am

pics pics pics!!
i never seen it with red, i have black and chrome on my 82 'vert parts car.

Post by **kuklaki** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 1:22 pm

GTI trim, perhaps??????

CalAltaDubber · Post by **CalAltaDubber** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 10:28 pm

kuklaki wrote:GTI trim, perhaps??????

That could be it!

Post by **SoCal_Cabby** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 12:46 am

kuklaki wrote:GTI trim, perhaps??????

it would almost have to be.

1lowcab · Post by **1lowcab** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 12:53 am

would it be MKII gti trim? i don't think MKI gti trim had red pinstripe, my 83 gti didn't.

J-Dub · Post by **J-Dub** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 1:09 am

MKII GTI Trim would be too big and is lower on the car then the cabriolet

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