If I were you, I wouldn't risk it. If you know in fact, that the front door has been repainted, I doubt any body shop would remove the door moldings just to repaint the door. They would probably just tape them off and paint accordingly. If the paint job wasn't too long ago, find out what shop did it and tell them what you want to do and ask them if they removed painted then reattatched the ding gaurds...
