Since I have long finished making my car go fast, I have moved on to making it look nicer... I noticed this somewhat popular mod in the Toyota scene:
http://www.mr2.com/forums/show-off/Toyota-MR2-64417-aesthetic-door-mods-mk2-only.html
Lots of new cars now come with chrome door strikers with the plastic caps covering the screws... Hyundai is one of them!

I went to the breakers and found a Lexus LS400, I test fitted the chrome door strikers on a 323 there and they didn't fit! Hole spacing was way off! Tried just the plastic covers on the stock 323 door strikers... wouldn't clip on...
But I remember the Xedos 9 had a similar setup, just no chrome strikers... no big deal to me... so I tried the Xedox 9 door striker caps on the 323... wouldn't clip on... so I next tried swapping the Xedos 9 door striker over.. perfect fit!


Only minor rubbing on the door latch screw against the plastic cap on the front door:


On the LS400, there were also plastic covers over where the door checkers attach to the door jamb... nice little touch to hide some of the mechanical parts of the door

So I ganked those but tried them on the Protege... doesn't fit! But what if I cut them.....

Now it works! It doesn't cover around the attachment bracket completely, but it's good enough... I'll need to wait for a 929 (the very early Xedos 6 and 9 had them too but we never got them here) to show up at the breakers before I can try those instead

Nice mate.

These are actually really good idea!
Not so noticable, if you don't know it. But makes big difference even eatherway, because you don't notice them.

Next:
New floormats..

Lovely, finishes it off nicely.