just a couple quick questions. To get them off do i need to use a heat gun? Do i only have to do what i did for the badges? I used fishing string and then alot of goo be gone and it all came off. So can i do the same for the side moldings? i hav lot of free time right niw and im extremly bored.
yup thats how everyone i know that took theirs off did it, and thats how i plan on doing it whenever i get some extra time
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no heat gun for me lol i dont feel comfortable with using somethign that hot around my paint. Ive herd horor stories about the paint bubbling so ill take the extra time and have to scrap a crap load off.
i just used a blowdryer and some fishing line. that worked best for me.
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rawkfist wrote:no heat gun for me lol i dont feel comfortable with using somethign that hot around my paint. Ive herd horor stories about the paint bubbling so ill take the extra time and have to scrap a crap load off.
what are using to scrape the goo off with?
and also make sure you take your time and dont try the "well this is coming off easy enough, i'll just pull it off" or you're going to have problems like i did.
good luck man, the car is sooo much cleaner when they're off
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^^^Yea, listen to that, cause i got a little carried away and pulled it off, and well ooops, there went my clear coat...lol...i'll repaint it later...
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I went to do mine the other day and noticed that who ever painted the car before I bought it didn't remove the side moldings when they did it, so it looks as if the paint had build up on top of the molding....any suggestions?
if you took it all off already and dont want to get repainted ... i dont know how that would trun out ... clean the spot were the molding was and clean the molding and then get some 3M tape and re-intall the molding.
lawrence joven wrote:I went to do mine the other day and noticed that who ever painted the car before I bought it didn't remove the side moldings when they did it, so it looks as if the paint had build up on top of the molding....any suggestions?
leave them alone until you're ready for a new paintjob
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That's what I'm going to do, wait for the paint job and remove the molding. No more of this little steps to changing my car, going back to stock and getting everything I need to get it all done right.
Hrothgar wrote:lawrence joven wrote:I went to do mine the other day and noticed that who ever painted the car before I bought it didn't remove the side moldings when they did it, so it looks as if the paint had build up on top of the molding....any suggestions?
leave them alone until you're ready for a new paintjob
i took mine off and it was the same color underneath..not 1 shade off..
then again the car was only a few months old
i used an 1 1/2" puddy knife and a razor blade worked great a little residue was left over just put a little gasoline on a rag takes it right off (only if you didn't scratch through), and a little buffing compound with a lint free towel
it was the same color underneath the side molding, but it was the clearcoat that wasn't smooth.
