Door trim width

[Dougieboy1]

Reassembling my car after full body resto and paint. It is a 1972MY (Nov production) 911S.

Am fitting the outer anodised trim to the door top. When it is offered up, the line doesnt flow from the window trim below the rear pop out to the door trim. Its the same on both sides



Apologies for the small photo, i cant seem to make them any bigger.....

Struggling to understand why there is such a discrepancy between the 2 pieces of trim as there is no adjustment in the pop out trim and the door trim has insufficient adjustment to take out the discrepancy.

My door trim strip, original to the car, was re-anodised and is 22mm wide. A porsche restorer local to me has measured the width of other similar trim strips he has. and they vary between 18.5mm and 20mm. If my door trims were the same as these others, i wouldnt have such a poor line between the window and the door.

For full context,
- both doors have been reskinned and both rear quarters replaced by an expert in the UK who has done dozens of them.
- The trim under the rear pop-out windows are repros as the anodiser 'lost' the originals.

So i was wondering if anyone has any ideas why my door trims seem so much wider than others. Are they off a different car - were early or later cars different?

It would also be helpful to know how wide your door trim strips are. Is mine abnormally wide?

[911hillclimber]

I re skinned my doors and the skins do not have the holes punched for the spring clips that align and retain the door trim.
Thus someone has drilled the holes in the wrong place hence the mis alignment you have.
I did the same 30 years ago on one side!

You simply redrill a fresh set of hole further out so to allow alignment.
The clips are free ( or should be) to slide right along the door trim exreusion so you can re align with ease.

As the trim is now and glass in place the rubber wiper strip might jam the glass from moving, depends on its condition.

Hope this helps.
Graham.

[inaglasshouse]

Hi Graham,
My new door skins did have holes:


Hi Andrew,
Here are two trim examples:

Blue car:


Orange car (using a spare trim I had lying around - my original ones are off being polished and anodised):


In both cases the width of the trim on top of the door, at its rear end, is about 18.5mm:


The orange car has new trims under the rear windows, bought from Porsche. I don't know the origin of those on the blue car.

BTW these are not new data points - your local restorer has already asked me so I'm one (or two) of the 18.5mm examples - but hopefully some more pics will help others to understand the question and enlighten us.

Cheers, Richard.

[911hillclimber]

My skins were some of the first pressed by Dansk.
The fit was awful.
Maybe they are punched today, or Porsche ones are?

[Gary71]

Bigger version of original pic if it helps.

[Dougieboy1]

Hi richard, Garry mentioned he had spoken with you. He has measured some spare trims in his shop and yours at 18.5mm was close to the ones he has at 20mm. Mine is 22mm.

He reckons he could get 20mm to match pretty well but the 22mm width of mine makes smoothing the line unrealistic.

So wondering if i have a weird set of wide ones from perhaps a later car?

Gary, how did you enlarge the photo?

Thanks all

AWD

[Gary71]

Gary, how did you enlarge the photo?

Thanks all

AWD

Followed the link I got from your photo, which shows it larger, then took a screen shot and posted that via Tapatalk

[Dougieboy1]

dont know what i am doing wrong, i am using the same mechanism as before but the photos come out small..... have tried varying it but always the same!!

[inaglasshouse]

Looks like in PostImage, under "share", it provides two options for code to paste into forums like this one.

If you use the code from "Thumbnail for forums" you get this:


If you use the code from "Hotlink for forums" you get this:

[Dougieboy1]

Thanks

Am over 50 and therefore technically challenged....

[BILLY BEAN]

Thanks

Am over 50 and therefore technically challenged....

In my book you are just a young bloke.