So ive had this car for a few months now, i looked at a bunch of cars before and finally decided to roll the dice on this one, not a completely bad decison but not a great one either, along with needing a new 5th gear synchro theres a few appearance things i would like to fix:

Interior trim is peeling both the rubber that attaches to the door and the plastic that attaches to the rubber, is there a type of glue that works best to fix this?


Above the drivers side window the trim is getting loose and could probably be pulled of not sure what to use to keep it on


Although I bought the carfax and it said there was no accidents on the car looking at the rearend closely is making me think otherwise:

One of my tailights is tight but theres a fairly decent sized gap between it its hard to tell by the picture but it looks bad up close


The trunk is not even its alot closer and more lined up on the left side and theres a bigger gap between the right side of the trunk and the car


When i was putting on the rear license plate I noticed the part inside was definitely not even, i got a couple pictures of what it looks like inside


Inside the rear bumper to the right


Inside the rear bumper to the left


Give me your opinion on possible fixes or ideas that I could try or if you could take a look at your rear bumper and let me know how it looks compared to mine, Thanks

 

I have the same problem as the first picture and would like to know best way to fix the trim. It drives me crazy!

 

Yea haha i can squeeze it back together and it stays there nicely for about 5 seconds and then pops back out

 

Seriously... Everytime I put it back on snug my son goes to get in the back seat and his foot always happens to hit it with his shoe and off it comes. Good luck getting everything worked out and congrats on the purchase

 

Thanks, love the car just wish it was in mint condition all the little things can drive me crazy, hopefully we find a permanent fix to the interior trim

 

was the car from nashville or something like that? i was looking at a silver one on autotrader but when I heard about the synchro problem i decided against it

 

For the tail light problem, you'd probably be able to fix it by taking it out and reintalling it, or tightening the three screws that hold it in place. You have to take off the black plastic and some of the trunk lining to get to the screws though.

 

No the cars up in Canada, synchro problem seems to be pretty common with 04s though

 

ahhh yeah i understand. all of you problems look to be pretty cheap or free fixes with just some labor time, synchros will be more though

 

Yea im prepared to drop 3gs on a whole new tranny for that soon enough, but im mainly just worried about that part in the rear bumper how it isnt straight, it makes me think that it was in an accident and it got hidden

 

This.

It's very easy to remove/re-install the tails back properly

 

It might be that the bumper is warped, and gives the appearance of the aluminum part to look out of place. Try comparing it with some other parts out back, if you haven't already. While installing my plates, I noticed that too, but mine was obviously the bumper

 

Ok yea the bumper where the right license plate light is looks like it definitily got smashed in you cant tell unless you look right above the plate but even with that considered that aluminum piece still looks really crooked

 

Bump... Anybody have a solution to the door molding popping off?

 

I JB welded it lol. Hasnt come off yet and its been over 6 months