Whats the best way to remove pin striping

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TonyStarks29
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The Pin strip that runs from the front of my car to the back that Thin line has cracks and id prefer to take it off but i DONT wanna scrach my car anyone use anything besides razor blades and im thinking of taking the black stripe off on the bottom anyone got ideas?


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If you find an auto paint and detail store, they make a round disk that you attach to the end of a rotary tool or power drill. It's a rubbery material that you use like an erasure. You just spin it against the pin stripe and it'll pull it off and just leave a glue residue in place. Then get some wax and grease remover or goo gone or something like that to clean off the residue.


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they also make plastic razor blades. i know on previous cars, we would use some sort of decal remover and a blow dryer.

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Use GOOP off and get the tape good and soaked with it. Let it sit a couple of minutes and it should peel off (adding some heat will help). You can also use Medical adhesive remover too (just harder to get easily). GOOP OFF is sold at places like Wal-mart and such. Good luck.

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I just used my fingernail on mine took a while, and my finger hurt afterwords, but was free and worked!

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I bought a little container of sticker remover that came with a plastic scraper with a semi sharp edge. The sticker remover itself was crap, but I went to Wal Mart and bought some 3M adhesive remover that I used with the plastic scraper and it worked awesome. Spray...let it sit for a little while...spray again, scrape off sticker, spray again on left behind adhesive, then start sraping the adhesive off with the plastic scraper combined with rubbing with an old towel. It is quite time consuming but I still managed to get it done in a day or two in the middle of Texas summer heat.

IMO those little stripes and decals can go to hell on ANY car. They look gay and leave marks behind when you don't want them anymore because the paint behind it isn't faded at all. I once was at a Nissan dealer and saw a dude in a van pull up that had like miles of rolls worth of the junk. He proceeded to ugly up a couple cars that looked just fine w/o it.

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Eikon wrote:If you find an auto paint and detail store, they make a round disk that you attach to the end of a rotary tool or power drill. It's a rubbery material that you use like an erasure. You just spin it against the pin stripe and it'll pull it off and just leave a glue residue in place. Then get some wax and grease remover or goo gone or something like that to clean off the residue.
Fastest way to do it on the bumpers. I just yanked mine off of the sides without any tools.

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yeah my finger nail worked better then a blow dryer didnt try that goop off though didnt really need it...

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boom i knew my method would prevail!


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