Shadowline Window chrome

[Streichholzschächtelchen]

By the windows there's these little pieces of chrome. IMO chrome should keep it's ass to the exterior, so I wanted to shadowline the the 4 pieces of interior chrome. Today I found rear window pieces on a car that appear to have been made in black, not painted. Was this aftermarket? I checked pelican parts, no pics or any info. If they are then maybe I can find the fronts for cheap somewhere, it would bother me to have originals in the rear and sprayed up front.

[Eric Giles]

From my experience...all E30 M3's came with shadowline trim on the door and rear interior panels. The three '87 model 325's I have owned all had chrome trim on those panels. However, a buddy's '90 325is had shadowline trim there, and although my memory is vague I 'think' the '90 325is that I used to own also had shadowline trom on the interior panels.

I was looking thru realoem.com the other day, and they list the part numbers for the rear shadowline pieces on the coupe, but no where did I find the part number for the pieces on the coupe door panels. Heck, they don't even show that part as being separate on any of the diagrams.

I am going to try to remove mine, lightly sand them, and spray them with the same Duplicolor trim paint that I did my exterior shadowline with.

[Streichholzschächtelchen]

Wow you'd think they would continue the pattern up front with the other two pieces of trim. Oh well, looks like I'm gonna be removing door cards again.

[Streichholzschächtelchen]

Removed mine, sprayed them with rusto semi-gloss, came out looking the same as the black oem ones in the rear. Installing was fun, it was a bitch getting the trim and the window rubber matched right without rubbing the trim on install. Oh well, after a lot of getting mad at myself it looks nice, done.