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Old 05-31-2023, 07:37 PM   #4
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Re: Moldings write-up and beware double-side tape

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Originally Posted by Keith Seymore View Post
Thank you for documenting all that.

In the factory those moldings are installed in no less that three different areas of the plant (cab trim, bed trim, front end sheetmetal area).

Fenders are installed to the vehicle after body drop, and then doors are fit (typically using hammers and big pieces of lumber to pry).

It's kind of amazing anything remotely lines up after all that, so you are going to have way better fitment than what it came with originally.

K
Interesting for sure. I've seen how the factory misses here and there, heck they forgot three rivets on my C10, missed on a Deluxe badge too, etc. My former C20 had moldings, each side had it's own characteristic and the tail handle mold wasn't that close. Seems to me the engineering was real good to exceptional. What the factory did with the parts a different story.
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