Stainless window trim

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Stainless window trim

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Hi all

It may be a silly question but are you able to cut the larger mk3 stainless upper trims down to use them on mk1 doors?

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Don't think it will match up, as well as the increased height of the door frame going up to nearer the roof gutter, the shape is also slightly changed to suit.
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I looked into this a couple of weeks ago as I have a couple of trims from a MkIII Wolseley and wanted to fit them to my MkII Traveller. When lining them up I found that the top of the window frame between the bends on the MkIII is slightly shorter so the trim is too short on the top rail for a MkI or MkII door.
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Thanks for that. Not what i wanted to hear but to be fair, what i suspected. At least i found out before i picked up the hacksaw and ruined one!

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They are not interchangeable. Once I was sold - ebay wonders - a pair of window trims guaranteed to be for the MK1. Guess what, they didn't fit as described above.
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