Door Garnish Rail hardware
Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2017 4:05 pm
All,
I'm looking for a better solution to hold the rubber on my door garnish rails. Some background: The car was a literal basket case, with bits and pieces of other cars thrown in the mix. We painted the rails we had, and they fit perfectly. However, the holes are a strange spacing. In the attached picture, you can see the backs of the rails, both are perfectly symmetrical, but the holes are not at regular intervals. (25 years ago I used aluminum pop rivets to tack on the rubber, but you can see where the rubber just pulled out from underneath). Next to the rails are the spring steel pieces available from Stoddard, and next to those are VW-intended replacement pieces (Thanks James Davies!). Both replacements have the bent part at regular intervals...
So, what to do? Drilling the garnish rails seems foolish, even if they aren't original. Does anyone have a similar car that can peek at the backs of your rails? Has anyone hand made a replacement wire?
Thanks in Advance
Nathan Kruger
51820
(march 1954)
I'm looking for a better solution to hold the rubber on my door garnish rails. Some background: The car was a literal basket case, with bits and pieces of other cars thrown in the mix. We painted the rails we had, and they fit perfectly. However, the holes are a strange spacing. In the attached picture, you can see the backs of the rails, both are perfectly symmetrical, but the holes are not at regular intervals. (25 years ago I used aluminum pop rivets to tack on the rubber, but you can see where the rubber just pulled out from underneath). Next to the rails are the spring steel pieces available from Stoddard, and next to those are VW-intended replacement pieces (Thanks James Davies!). Both replacements have the bent part at regular intervals...
So, what to do? Drilling the garnish rails seems foolish, even if they aren't original. Does anyone have a similar car that can peek at the backs of your rails? Has anyone hand made a replacement wire?
Thanks in Advance
Nathan Kruger
51820
(march 1954)