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That's the lower spec trim - mine have those narrow ones. They can look smart enough with aluminium wheel spray, but the wider ones do protect the paint better. Dave. UK VW Type 3 & 4 Club http://www.hallvw.clara.co.uk/ ------ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Petri O. Calderon Larjanko" <petri@unsw.edu.au> To: <type3@vwtype3.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 10:24 PM Subject: Re: [T3] Door threshold or Sills > > On 10/2/05 6:56 AM, "Jim Adney" <jadney@vwtype3.org> wrote: > > > These would have to come from a car that was wrecked and junked when it was > > still rather nice. I have quite a few old ones, but they all came from cars > > that rusted out, and those parts are some of the first to go bad. > > The pair I have on my Notch are steel and one can see that there is some > surface rust on them, these are a couple of centimeters wide (just wide > enough to cover the heater channel join - is this correct?). But, I > recently picked up from a junkyard a pair that was aluminium and are about 6 > centimeters wide (enough to cover the whole sill). Didn't you guys get > aluminium ones in the states? > > > -- > Petri > 71 Notch > 02 Subaru Liberty RX (family wagon) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~