The trim is inserted into the panel and the tabs are melted, thus holding the trim in place. You have two choices, remove the door panel and use a epoxy/hot glue to secure the tab or leave the door panel on and get some epoxy/hot glue to secure the trim. That might be messy, so maybe some strips of two sided tape onto the rear of the trim and press it back into place.

 

The hot glue I used didnt stick to anything, I'll try a bunch of double sided tape

 

It will work if you get it inside the hole that the peg goes in. Works well from the backside for sure, thats how I put my trim back on after I took it off. Sticks quite well to that fiberboard they use, can't say the same for their glue though, I had to glue the top section of the door panel (plastic rail assembly) back onto the fiberboard.

If neither works, go with a two part epoxy.

 

The remnants of the sticky crap left over from my double sided tape attempt seems to have been enough to hold the trim down. I've got some more ideas to try before removing the door trim

 

If you want to stick anything on a car with tape, the only thing I've found that works are the double sided 3M pads sold to fix mirrors, which you can get on small rolls. The problem with anything like this is it can come loose when the cabin gets hot.

Do you think this trim is aluminium or chrome on ABS plastic? I never had much success in the past with plastics but recently I've done some good small area repairs with a soldering iron set at the right temperature to replace tabs that have broken. I've even found thicker parts on a plastic trim and inserted a hot wire, sewing pin, or stainless weld wire, let it cool and used the new wire as an anchor point If you don't have a digital soldering iron you can switch it on and plastic weld quickly as it warms up. V.W usually mark the plastic type for recycling and you can buy short lengths of different type plastic filler sticks. Plastics welding only works using the correct filler rod and temperature. I've also tried using hot air, but it's less controllable than a hot iron and you can easily end up with a molten mess!

 

The part is made of PA6 GF (Polymide). The silver trim does feel like metal, not chrome though.

 

The part is made of PA6 GF (Polymide).

Not much is a chemical bond for that except industrial superglue and 2 part polyurethanes? When I'm stuck as a last resort I try silicone. It doesn't chemically bond, but has a lot of surface stick if there's a reasonable area of contact and you can peel it off. I used it on my door card cappings at the top and they are still stuck after 4 years. V.W used a hot melt glue which was useless. It seems everywhere they use hot melt, my EOS parts fall off. I don't think hot melt glues like heat and damp (on door cards). Hot melt doesn't seem to be best product choice for the automobile environment.

 

It is shiny silver colored plastic, made to look like brushed aluminium

 

It's not like the long polished door glass wiper blade trims, they are definitely stainless steel.

 

I posted a picture

 

Sorry but so that I understand correctly, unlike the dash trims which are just clipped, the door trims are glued? If I wanted to swap out mine which are silver to the wood OEM part, it is not simply removing the pieces with a trim tool and popping in the wood trim replacements like the dash pieces?

 

I think we are saying the trim is made of chromed fake plastic (not ali!) with tabs that stick through slots into the back of the door card where they are flattened with a hot iron, like all their black rivets etc? If replacements are OE I'd expect them to come with tabs to be melted at the back, unless the tabs are hidden under a layer you can't get to?

I've tried all the glues mentioned here and others and the only glue I now use that bonds to most things is single part air curing 5 minute Poly Urethane wood glue. Use small amounts and allow for it expanding about 20% after curing. I work with it wearing latex gloves.