Exterior trim 89 90q

[Tom Nas]

Dave Hord <spokes at mail.the-wire.com> wrote:

>Sigh...While coming out from under the car last night my shoulder caught the
>passenger side lower door trim.  POP! The whole piece came off.  The dealer
>wants MEGA bucks for these...
>
>Anyother options?  I had heard rumours that the european cars don't have
>these...what seals off the doors??

My 87 90q has those (assuming you mean the rubber flaps on the outside 
bottom edge of the doors), but my 87 80 doesn't, nor does any 80 I've seen 
so far.
I'm not sure what task these things actually perform. They don't seal off 
the doors, that's what the interior rubber seals are for. They seem to be 
purely cosmetical, AFAIK.

Tom