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Whadya do when the whole truck looks good other than something like this here...
Could you just take it off and heat it up somehow, set on it's side and let gravity reshape it? Or would it be better to just peel it off and replace it with a straight one, either from a jy or new?
Take it off, let it sit out in the sun on a warm day, you can use something to weight down the molding and help flatten it out. Clean off the back side of the molding and door, re-tape it with some 3M double sided trim tape and call it a day.
Or you can pull them all off. I took the molding off my '00 to do some body work, because it was starting to peel off in a couple places, and I was going to repaint the grayed out molding with some Krylon Fusion. Been awhile since I took it off and have not repainted the pieces yet. Looking at the Jeep without them for some time now and might just leave them off like other people have done. It looks OK both ways to me. Sooner or later I will decide which way to go.
I'm not really big on cosmetics, as you can see here the (self taping) screw I put in mine last year has rusted. (just now noticed it taking the pic). If I DID care I suppose I could use a black screw, ('s).