roof strips
 

Here's a little bit of advice. Don't ever wax the roof strips on your car. I made that mistake and now they are no longer glossy. seems that the wax i used,(meguiars gold class) took off whatever kind of clearcoat or gloss that was on those strips.

mine seem kind of scuffed. I tried to claybar them but no go. Oh well. they can't really be seen anyway, it'd be worse on BB cars.

Roger that! I had to have some scratches buffed out that were left behind after I removed the sunroof wind deflector. Buffer got a little too close to one of the strips and poof took the coating and paint right off. Can't see it unless your standing over it looking for it but I know it's there. :(

but doesn't it bug the crap out of you? I mean, i know its there but there's nothing you can do about it. haha hmm, i wouldn't mind someone making it in carbon fiber! haha

Yes! annoys the hell outta me. I actually thought about popping them off an having them painted. Just haven't figured out yet how to remove them safetly. CF would be cool.

i think it would be a little different in carbon fiber..oh well...maybe i can get some vinyl overlaystickers that look like carbon fiber and stick it on there..



























LOL J/K!

My car is BB. They come off pretty easily. They just pop right off, you have to pull kinda hard though. I'm thinking about just buying new ones.

I've never seen those listed anywhere for sale. You may have a hard time finding them. And I can bet if you go through a dealership you'd pay out the ass for them. IMO the best bet is to try and find some from a wrecked 8 or just repaint them.

I used Meguiars on my new BB too. It scuffed one of them up really nice!
Dealer replaced them under warranty and told me they are around 100 bucks each.
Didn't have any problem with the ones on my 04 S.Silver, must be a paint issue.

Good deal! I'm not sure if that would work for me, even though I still have around 2 1/2 years left on warranty. Wouldn't hurt to ask though. Eyeball, did they ask how they got scuffed? 100 each sounds pretty high for a couple pieces of flimsy plastic.

How old was your car when they replaced those under warrenty? My side aero flares came installed on the car from Japan, but my local dealer refused to address the wear/pitting on the leading edge of them, even though my car was only 9 months old.

My dealer quoted me $193 each strip! Since my car has only 11k miles, they told me to bring it in to see if it may be covered under warranty... Now I get to do the whole "is it covered under warranty" song and dance.

I had a hole in my ac condenser earlier this year. My dealer said that it would not be covered under warranty because a rock had hit it. When they couldn't find a dent, they had no choice but to replace the condenser. Shortly after I installed the racing beat oil cooler and condenser screens. This whole fiasco took about 2 months to resolve.

What's under them - a roof seam?

yeah there is some kind of seam. it covers up some welding.

i've never noticed this... and i have a black car. oh well, better watch out anyway.

Damn...just waxed mine with Meguiars Gold Class. I didn't notice any scuffing...but I didn't look that closely either. I'll have to keep this in mind for future waxings.

5 days old...new.

I've waxxed them with Turtle Wax and Zaino before. No scuffs or scratches. :)

I was able to have them replaced under warranty. They look so much better now. I noticed when I was at the Mazda dealer though, that all of their "new" cars had scuffed up roof moulding. Im never going to wax those strips again.

My '8 is BB and the rail covers on it take wax/polish just like the rest of the car.
Maybe yours are different somehow?

It seems like a lot of people have the same issue with the mouldings on the 8. Even when I was at the dealer all of their new cars had the same issue.

Now they are brand new becuause they were replaced by the dealer. I don't know if these new ones can handle being washed and waxed like the rest of the car.

Only time will tell.

Funnything I've never have that problem.

I use Nu Finnish. I also, just put the wax on very lightly over the strips. No rubbing at all.

Maybe it's the way you apply the wax and clean it before hand.