The only issue that can occur is that the rubber will "shrink" a little bit
exposing non-oxidized paint around the edge.

Cheers,

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Greg Potts
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 4:12 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Window seal beauty ring/trim?

Hi volks,

Another option is to simply paint the trim flat black, it basically
disappears into the rubber that way, and still gives that clean look Frank
was talking about.

Sent from my iPad

On 2012-06-04, at 5:45 AM, Frank Condelli <RAlanen@AOL.COM> wrote:

>        Old wives tale.  My trim has been removed over 10 years ago and I
have NEVER seen a problem related to these trims pieces being removed.  Now,
that's about the 100th time I've posted this same message !  So..........do
whatever suits you but I like the looks of no ugly chromed trim there
staring at me !  Pure black rubber is awesome especially when dressed with
some Krown rustproofing oil which makes it shine