Penultimate Sportline-a-like upgrade.

8mm black trim strip added to the the lower door trim.

https://a.aliexpress.com/_EISPHpy

OEM has a recess so would have had to change entire colour matched lower trim piece to get a completely stocked look. Yet again @JR RS leads the way with adding an external trim strip to achieve the same effect.

Just the roof rails to change now for the full black out of chrome.

A couple of jobs done today.

Replaced the drivers door inner seal as the original one had worn from driver getting in and out. The second hand one I got from eBay had a little wear but hadn’t split so I just rotated it about 45 degrees so the wear was on the back edge where it won’t wear any more. Pretty simple fit, you just have to take a couple of trim pieces off.

As I had already had some of the trim off and it was finally a sunny afternoon I thought I would tackle installing the black roof rails. Thanks to @Kosin for the install tips. Pretty much remove anything attached to headliner around the edges, all pillar trims and top boot trims. To remove the sun visors and handles you need the OEM/Laser long nose flat pliers at £60 to £30. Luckily Ali express to the rescue again with a cheap tool that does the job perfectly for £3

https://a.aliexpress.com/_EHRShvy

To access the rear of the front pair of bolts you have to disconnect the plug from the curtain airbag igniter. Not too much bother with the battery disconnected and an appropriate wait time to make sure everything is powered down. Apart from when I had fully reinstalled the liner and trims and got an airbag error warning and realised I had forgotten to reconnect the passenger side! Doh! So that half all got disassembled again to reconnect it. Now all done everything back in its place and all fault codes cleared with no issue. All in about 3hrs work. It would have been 2.5 without my airbag mistake!

So that’s the last of the dechrome jobs done and now full Sportline-ish exterior spec (apart from wheels and stance both of which are outside the budget for now!)

Edited Friday at 20:101 day by Binx1310

Good Job

That looks Very smart, the roof rails do make such an impact, I’m still waiting on my first delivery from AliExpress to turn up,,, the 2nd one has just left the factory….. now I’ve had to make a 3rd one to get the little tool Widgety thing as I’m gonna need it to run the rear dash cam cable to the back when I actually get a chance to work on the car 🤪