Interior cabin trims

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Does the interior trims (like around the headliner, a-pillar, b-pillar, etc) go in before or after the door opening seals? Was wondering if the sides overlapped the seal or were inside it. My truck never had trims and half the seals were missing so no idea how to know.

I ask this because I need to mock up my interior trims again and mark where the screws go - would actually like to drill them before paint. Shocked there aren't stamped dimples or something where the holes were drilled. How did they do it on the assembly line? @Keith Seymore

THX :hat:
 

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Does the interior trims (like around the headliner, a-pillar, b-pillar, etc) go in before or after the door opening seals? Was wondering if the sides overlapped the seal or were inside it. My truck never had trims and half the seals were missing so no idea how to know.

I ask this because I need to mock up my interior trims again and mark where the screws go - would actually like to drill them before paint. Shocked there aren't stamped dimples or something where the holes were drilled. How did they do it on the assembly line? @Keith Seymore

THX :hat:

The screw holes aren't dimpled simply because the factory used self tapping screws. They went where they went, basically.
 

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Seals go under.
which means neeed to pay attention to the standing pinch weld when installing and doing the trim pieces, because the trim and seals are not OEM and the pinch welds may have been bumped, so a rubber mallet should be in the toolbox and maybe a a rag and a hand-brake or seamers
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