Hello Keshav ,
Here is how I know !
We Dismanteled two E9’s and sent the pieces for re-chroming! When the pieces came back from the chrome shop we started getting them ready for fitment of the rubber pieces and old flets we had. One sets of felts was still reusable after washing them! To figure how high we need to place the felt before riveting, we brought them up against the car .
That how we found out . Incidentally both sides were different. So we labeled them for each car That is the only chrome piece we had this issue with.
On another note we also found out that belt trims from one year to another are slightly different. It seems that earlier year the trim was slightly thinner! The 74 model trims was slightly thicker may be a 1mm or so..
This could also be caused by caustic solution they use to remove old chrome or Annodizing before Re chroming
Here is how I know !
We Dismanteled two E9’s and sent the pieces for re-chroming! When the pieces came back from the chrome shop we started getting them ready for fitment of the rubber pieces and old flets we had. One sets of felts was still reusable after washing them! To figure how high we need to place the felt before riveting, we brought them up against the car .
That how we found out . Incidentally both sides were different. So we labeled them for each car That is the only chrome piece we had this issue with.
On another note we also found out that belt trims from one year to another are slightly different. It seems that earlier year the trim was slightly thinner! The 74 model trims was slightly thicker may be a 1mm or so..
This could also be caused by caustic solution they use to remove old chrome or Annodizing before Re chroming