8?-91 Factory Trim Location Question...

[PWagon]

The last few years of the K5 Blazer trim looked awesome (I'm talking about the black rubber trim with small chrome stripe). I've ordered some, but I'm confused on where to install it at the back of the rear quarter-panels. Also, this molding is as straight and flat as my high school prom date which makes it difficult to wrap around and look right.

Question #1.) How's this stuff supposed to both wrap around the body corner and turn up (to match the contour of the body panel)?

Question #2.) Where exactly is the trim line supposed to line up? I've seen a lot of these trucks where the trim is level with the front bumper trim but higher than the rear bumper trim.

Question #3.) Can someone with this factory trim please post a close up picture or two, so I can see how it's supposed to look?

 

[rebelgregory]

Mine has the chrome trim, but the back corner piece was a 90 degree piece os stainless just long enough to wrap the corner. I ended up removing it and using the adhesive trim. Due to the contour, only the top tape strip really stuck but it looked factory.

For my particular trim, it is mounted high. Right under taillights and the large tailgate stainless tailgate trim.

 

[nvrenuf]

My '91 has special curved pieces to wrap the corners. They are also screwed to the body. I can get some pics of mine tonight if needed.

Edit: the trim goes in the higher position (your pic).

 

[PWagon]

The Chevy dealership tells me this curved part is discontinued. Do any of you guys know where I can buy a reproduction or even used ones? All the K5 Blazers in Dallas/Ft Worth salvage yards are picked cleaned.

 

[nvrenuf]

Does LMC have them?

 

[PWagon]

Does LMC have them?

LMC only has the flat/straight pieces. They do not carry the curved piece.

 

[nvrenuf]

I found a couple of pics in my build thread, here's one -

 

[Irish1941]

The corner piece for '89-91 is long discontinued. And Suburban is close but different enough it doesn't fit. Tried that. Absolutely nobody makes it either. I have all the trim NOS for my '89 except those damn corners. I've been looking for 3yrs for those. '88 and down is completely different again.
I'm to the point where I might try mylar tape with extra adhesive to really make it stick.
It does mount low under the tail light like nvrenuf shows. The sides should line up with the matching front bumper impact strip.
Here is a photo of my truck. Now you can see how the generic flat ones won't work.

 

[rebelgregory]

Like I said, I wrapped the adhesive strip around mine and never had any problems in about 8 yrs. It looked good. It would help to take a hair dryer or heat gun (be careful) to get it pliable. I did the rear quarter to tailgate in one piece - rather than cutting just the corner piece. Would have been much harder that way. I don't have any good pics, but here's one where you can see that it is one piece. The truck is stripped for paint now, but I will be putting new trim on exactly the same way again.

 

[PWagon]

I wasn't happy with the trim I ordered from LMC, so I sent it back. Thankfully they refunded my money. I've been spending a lot of time at local salvage yards when possible, and I've found some decent side molding trim off of late 90's Suburbans. I bought both sides off a '97 burb for $30, and I picked up some exterior 3M double sided tape at the local hardware store. After cleaning up it up and removing the factory installed adhesive, I was able to install the trim on my K5. Overall it wasn't that much work, and I think it improves the appearance quite a bit. I've wanted this trim since I bought my truck years ago. Anyhow, I'm happy with how it turned out, and I thought I'd share the end results.

I still cannot find the curved pieces that wrap around the back (up next to the tailgate). I've finally given up hope for those pieces. I'm considering just making a custom rear bumper that partially wraps around the sides of the truck (up next to where the black trim ends).

 

[Irish1941]

I finally found some GM corner pieces. In Europe of all places.
If you want, I'll forward the info. Not cheap, but he does have them. Think he is in Denmark. I found one in Sweden and other was in Germany.