My body trim, I guess it is a rubber/plastic? The think molding that goes around it. 1998 Sport.
Mine are faded. Is there a way to bring them back to life. Or just respray them with some paint?

 

You've got a couple options...

a) Meguiar's has a product that is supposed to bring it back to life
b) sand it and paint it or use spray-on bedliner
c) remove the trim
d) other that someone else will chime in with.

I did C. I just pulled off the trim with my hands and then used a 3M rubber adhesive removal wheel ($25 from amazon). Took about 20 minutes with the wheel and had no issues.

BEFORE



AFTER

 

oh damn. I may do that. That came out nice!

 

I'm in the same boat, in fact was going to pick up some Paint for Plastic and do it this weekend or next. I like that better. Permanent solution!

 

pulling the panel is a nice clean look, just be prepared for what lay beneith... might be a lil rusty under there.

 

I have also seen them painted body color... thats looks the best to me... but thats just what i think...

 

I removed them completely and bedlined everything

 

that was my first idea since that's the scheme on it now, but my '01 is what i call "gunmetal blue" and that's just not "navy"-which is as close as i can find. i thought black would look okay if i also went over the bumpers. My factory paint is still in excellent shape (a few backwoods scratches aside), so the faded trim really looks like crap.

 

X2 haha and while there off you can plan for the future.... If you want or need more clearance for tires, throw in a little trim job

 

Mine are off right now, and I think it looks really clean. However, I bought Duplicolor body trim paint for them and I might put them back on. They look REALLY clean. Only problem is, Ill need to do everything else to make them match.

 

I tryed Mothers back to black and it only lasted a month. Then dupi-color trim paint worked great and it ended up like in my photos (looks black and brand new)

 

Do you have a side profile pictures of how you did your doors? I'm really liking the two-tone look.

 

check this out
https://www.cherokeeforum.com/f51/no...oration-89044/

 

Yea that thread is the reason why i tried Mothers B2B, but like i said, it only lasted a month before it started turning grey again.

 

I do, basically I bedlined the whole perimeter of the Jeep. It to this day has been one of the best things I've done to it. Looks great and protects from scratches and dings from the rocks flinging out of my MT's