Today i noticed a problem with my trunk paint, had it repainted due to a ding, the painted said it came out like that cause it badge's where there....now, he said to take the badges off and come on sat to paint, so while im doing this and im rubbing off the sticky glue, i took a chunk of my clearcoat with me.....im like WTF? so i just left it, since he has to sand it down before painting anyway...



Now, is it cause of the week old paint? I want to take off my side moldings, but im scared ill rip off clear coat with it, or even worse...my paint....

Should i take it too the dealer and have them do it since they put it on there? Im wondering if anyone has had some similar problems.

 

jst take it to the dealer to be on the safe side...........i recall reading somewhere that you can use a heat gun to remove the moldings

 

i used a hairdryer and my side mouldings came off.. took a long time though. Id say u get to remove 1 inch for every couple min of heating.. have fun It wont ruin your paint unless u force that crap off.

 

I used a heat gun to take off my side mouldings. I started by one end corner heating it up which took about 2 minutes to get hot and then slipped a credit card in the corner enough for me to get my fingers a hold of and then just ripped the whole thing off like that. I did not even need to heat the rest up it came off that easy and was that easy. Under it was glue left behind so I used some goo gone and it came off at the snap of the finger. The whole process for both sides took me about a total of 25-30 minutes. I took off both door mouldings in about 4 minutes.

 

R O F L

i just called a dealer, and they want 95$ an hour and estimate about 1 hour per side modling.....i literally laughed in their face.


guess ill be doing this sometime while im bored

 

HAHA! That is to funny. Its ridiculous how much they overprice the smallest things. You can do this yourself in about 25-30 minutes. Extremely easy if you have a heat gun and some goo gone and your set. Good Luck.

 

my moddings coupe is 03 does it matter how long it been there?

 

the longer they ahve been on the harder.. mine were on since january 1 of 04 and i took em off this year so they were on for nearly 2 years.. maybe thats why i had so much trouble

 

i noticed if the car is out in this 90 degree weather they kinda peel off as it is wihtout much force, so i figure ill try it out one of these after noons with a blow dryer and the lovely miami heat

 

My Twlight blue is over 2 years old. If I take the BSM off will I notice that they were there from the other painting being faded?

 

Anyone know?

 

mine didnt really have much fade

 

jst wax the entire car after, and you will be fine