urban_cowboy

Ok. I have another parts question. I have replaced the hood molding on my 1969 like 4 times in 5 years. It is the chrome piece on the very front edge of the hood. I have bought all of them from NPD. I cannot tell you for sure who the manufacturer is. The first couple were so flimsy that they either bent when installing or dented within several weeks. The last two have been a little heavier, but the chroming on them turns cloudy after 8-10 months. FYI, my car stays in the garage 6 days of the week and never sees water other than at the car wash. I have found nothing that will clean them up, and thus far have been unwilling to have them re-chormed. Buying $70 trim pieces is getting old. My question is does anyone know of a quality trim manufacturer/distributor?

2+2GT

They are not chromed, they are anodized aluminum. You cannot re-polish them. You can have them stripped, polished, and re-anodized, which is usually far superior to the finish on repro parts.

Rick@NPD

I'm working on this issue currently... About a year ago, we switched sourcing on this molding to a newer tooling that is indeed sturdier and crisper, better overall part, BUT.... The anodizing has issues that I'm just now hearing about and whacking my supplier over the head about. So nothing definitive to say yet.

$70 trim piece?? It's an $18.95 molding, but it should still hold-up.

Daniel Carpenter is said to be working on putting the original tooling for this molding back into service, but I've got no date or projection yet. That'll be the thing to wait for.

urban cowboy, please pop me an email with your name and address so that I can apply a credit to your card for the last molding you bought. Beyond that, it'll probably be awhile before I receive a batch of "post-complaint-supposedly-fixed" moldings from overseas.

Thanks,

Rick
NPD
ricks@npdlink.com

urban_cowboy

Rick, thanks for the support. I will send you an email. It looks like the part is actually $25.25 according to my catalog. I mis-spoke on the $70, but I would love to get a better quality one that I do not have to replace so often. Thanks!