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Hi I want to ask if anyone knows where to get the weather strips for a 1985 Supra door? I’d assume it’s hard or impossible to find but if anyone knows a substitution like a different car models weather strip or something to kinda make the outline look the same all the way around, please let me know. It is just a piece of plastic but I need ideas on what to do haha. Thankyou
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Strip off all the plastic, scuff with 3M red pad, hit it with adhesion promoter, then black primer and finally 3-7 thin coats of trim paint in semi-gloss black.
I had the same problem of missing window trim (nowhere to be found on EBay or anywhere else) and did almost exactly what Jeremy recommended and it worked out surprisingly well. (I would post a photo or video of the results but I’m a newbie here and don’t know how, sorry!)
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Hit the View attachment 22863 button in the row of icons at the bottom of the post window and browse your computer, once you find the picture just click on the "Open" and viola your image will be in the post.

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Thanks, Jeremy. Here's some photos of the results of trying to "paint in" the missing trim. On the right, I've sanded off the remains of my old, weather-beaten and largely missing trim and then masked it off. On the left, after priming, painting with black base, and multiple layers of clear coat, a fairly respectable trim resulted. Now, I'd much rather have put on replacement trim than paint it, but I simply couldn't find it anywhere (neither Ebay, nor a junkyard)
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