side strip and respray

A quick question i'm about to have my 92 Gti Rivage  resprayed in Classic blue and wondered what people thought of me either
1. removing the waist height strip along the side of the car and smoothing over.
2.Removing and just filling in the holes but leave the crease
3. refitting the ugly strip
thanks for any advice

ChrisGTicabrio said

A quick question i'm about to have my 92 Gti Rivage  resprayed in Classic blue and wondered what people thought of me either
1. removing the waist height strip along the side of the car and smoothing over.
2.Removing and just filling in the holes but leave the crease
3. refitting the ugly strip
thanks for any advice

i dont like the look of the mk1 with the waistline crease smoothed over. i would recommend keeping the wait trims even just for resale value
scott

I was thinking keep the crease but remove the strip and keep them if I sell it later as a happy inbetween option

keep them on, smoothed over looks awful and just leaving the crease will look like somethings missing ,,

my opinion anyway

I saw a lot of mk1 at the agm last year with no waist trim and it looks odd.
leave them on or get the thinner ones

What thinner ones???
didn't know you could get them and if so where from

Matt said

keep them on, smoothed over looks awful and just leaving the crease will look like somethings missing ,,

my opinion anyway

What he said.
They do look awful without that line.
Even VW added a silver stripe underneath the black GTI tintops to highlight the line because the black trim got lost in the black paint.

Put them back on, as they look terrible without them or with them smoothed IMO