My daughter's Lanos has rubbery plastic trim strips down the side - they are lifting and need re-sticking. I guess I need to completely remove them and then re-stick them = but what is the recommended way of doing it? Is a double sided tape available?
Regards
John
yes, car shops sell the double sidede tape for this job in two widths. The problem I have found is that old rubber strips shink and develop a curl which is very hard to get rid of just by re-sticking them. sometimes I have ended up putting a small self tapper or pop rivet in at one end or both to prevent them lifting again, or bought new strips if the car justified it.
I've never found a double sided tape which works as well as a proper glue.
They exist see Toolstation for Power Grip tape for example, product Nos
63962 and 66322.I've used these to bond aluminium angle to aluminium plate and got a result as good as epoxy/rivets. In fact better than epoxy because I've found epoxying aluminium to be hit and miss. This stuff needs a solvent clean to remove grease and that's it.
You haven't found a good double sided tape then.
I use 3M tape.
Do 3M make just the one tape, then?
If you're working on that assumption it'd explain why you're not having any success with it.
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