My baad :-)

 

Gone! They're gone! Pin stripes are gone!

So here's what I eventually ended up doing.

I took the pin strip off with a hairdryer. And while it was a bit time consuming, the stripes came off pretty easy. But the adhesive from the pin stripes remained on the car. As I mentioned in posts above, I then tried Goo Gone, WD-40, bug remover, and clay to get the adhesive off. The clay worked but heavily scratched the finish. The chemicals worked, but only after extremely heavy rubbing and reapplying a lot of the chemical. So I gave up for the night.

A few days went by and I stopped by a body shop and explained the situation. The guy came out with a rag saturated with Scotch #8984, rubbed it on the adhesive using a fair amount of pressure, and the stuff came right off. I told him I had Scotch #8984 at home, so I thought I'd give it another try.

It took me about 20 minutes to get it all off and with minimal surface scratching. Here's why I think it didn't come off the first night when I used Scotch #8984. I think the adhesive was too moist and pliable just after using the dryer. After a few days the adhesive dried and lost some of its flexibility.

I thoroughly saturated about a three inch round section of a microfiber towel with the Scotch #8984. I first ran the wet part of the towel over a section of adhesive to remove any dirt that likely stuck to the adhesive. I made sure to run only in the direction of the adhesive stripe. Once the towel was no longer licking up dirt, (and you're going to yell at me for doing this), I fully saturated about an eight inch section of adhesive with the towel then lightly ran my finger nail over the adhesive. It rolled up on my finger nail like butter. After doing this two or three times, just small smudges of adhesive remained. This came off quite easily using a clean part of the towel with the Scotch #8984 on it. I was amazed at how much adhesive is used on those pin stripes.

There are some slight surface scratches from where I removed the pin stripes, but nothing like the damage I did the first night. My finger nail left absolutely no mark. Now all I need to do is buff out the area and I'm good as new!

I'll try to post a before and after photo.

 

Good stuff! Glad it worked out. Pics would be great.

 

who the hell installs these fugly pinstripes anyway??? only place ive seen them is on this site

 

Eraser wheel will take it right off, glue and all...

 

I understand pin stripes need to have a good adhesive on them to keep them from coming off during normal driving and cleaning. But why the need to put on so much adhesive and such a strong adhesive. This pin strip adhesive could survive a nuclear blast! Not necessary!

 

I have a black 08 G35 I got a few months back that unfortunately has pinstripes. To anyone that removed pinstripes after they've been on the car for that length of time - was there any noticeable paint color difference between that area and the rest of the car?

I'm afraid the rest of the car might be slightly faded after 2+ yrs in the sun with a brighter/fresher strip of black seen where the pinstripe was. That's the only reason I haven't touched it yet. Any advice/ personal experience appreciated.

 

Glad you got those off... Dnt understand why anyone would put them on in the first place... In for before and after pics

 

You should be fine, there are allot of threads about this (trunk debadge). As long as you do it rite and do a nice detail after, you should not have an issue

 

my car was 4 years old, its black too, When I took it off it was a bit noticeable, I polished my car and now its only a little bit visible if the sun is on it.

 

wha is that>? lol my bad is it the logo u guys talking bout?