John, Just like any piece of body trim if a section is damaged you must replace the damaged section. There are two basic styles of the DMC Accent Sidestraps. The wide black textured stripe is most common and is basically no longer available. The gray thin stripe is the other style and is still available form DeLorean Services, DeLorean Motor Company, PJ Grady, and DeLorean One. Both stripes were manufactured by 3M and made from a product 3M calls "Scotchcal". "We're here to help you" Seasons Greetings! DMC Help / De Lorean Services / <dmchelp@xxxx> Web Site: (TEMPORARY)<www.geocities.com/dmcjoe> ----- Original Message ----- From: Fronzel Neekburm <MIst_hunter1@xxxx> To: <dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2000 4:57 AM Subject: [DML] Side Stripe Questions > Hi DML, > > I've been seeing alot of deloreans with the deal stripe on a lot of web site > latly, and it has raised a few questions. What do you do if you get a > scratch right on the stripe? i'm sure you just can't brush it out, what is > it exzactly made of? And this last one is for James, is DMC Houstion selling > the thin gray strip and the black dealer stripe? Or do you just have the > stripe? > John