Manually modified vehicle window molding

A method of preparing an auto window molding for installation in an auto window opening about a peripheral edge of an auto window, said auto window molding of a type extruded in a T-shaped configuration consisting of a leg and a transversely oriented crown with inboard and outboard length portions respectively terminating in inboard and outboard edges, said method comprising the steps of extruding said T-shaped molding with at least one longitudinally oriented groove located in said crown outboard length portion so as to bound between said groove and said outboard edge a removable extent of the width of said crown outboard length portion, cutting to lengthwise size said extruded T-shaped molding to fit in circumferential relation about said peripheral edge of said window, measuring a selected length along said T-shaped molding destined to have a reduced width in said crown outboard length portion, inserting a cutting tool within said extruded groove, trimming along said extruded groove for said measured selected length therealong, and detaching said crown outboard length portion extending outboard from said groove to said outboard edge and extending longitudinally along the trimmed portion of the groove to provide said reduced width in said molding, whereby in the installed condition about said window peripheral edge said extruded T-shaped molding has two widths corresponding to untrimmed and trimmed length portions thereof.