[Mustangman25]

I'm assuming that you're referring to the flat black plastic moldings that go all along the side of the car. I've never noticed them protecting anything from my door, espeically on a ZX3, which has pretty long doors...the edge of the door seems to hit something before the actual door skin does. I've always thought that they were pretty ugly, and I'd love to paint mine the body color if I had some money, or just get rid of them even...if you wanted to get them, they'd really only be there for style reasons, as they don't really do squat to protect the doors.