sam-smith
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Registered: 8th Jan 07
Location: plymouth, UK
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is there grooves underneath or is it smooth bodywork? and will i get gunk and grime that wonrt come off? and will it pull my paint off??
basically is it worth it?
also will debadging have the above effects?
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Cupra Steve
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nothing a clean and a good polish won't sort out, it might take a few washes but definately worth de badging, sometimes the rub strips look quite good, depends what you are doing with the car.
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sam-smith
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any techniques on de-badging. if paint comes off ill start smashing things (not the car mind  )
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Mark330d
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Location: Netherlee, Glasgow City
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You can use a hair dryer but with mine they came off very easily just by slowly peeling them. That is the sri strips though, not sure on post 97.
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Cupra Steve
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badges are easy, some how you have to heat it, either hair dryer or kettle of hot water to try and melt the glue, i've used a credit card to peel off the badges then set about removing the glue by either rubbing / picking!!! Or when the co. round the back of my office had to remove their sign writing on there van they used white spirit with a cloth to remove the glue, worked v.well and didn't damage it at all.
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sam-smith
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would i be ok with a hot air blower (cant remember the real name) or would it affect the paint
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csweatherston
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Registered: 16th Jan 06
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heat gun - as long as you dont hold it too close to the paintwork
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TNM
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user a hair dryer. safe that way.
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deano87
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Registered: 21st Oct 06
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I hear nail varnish remover is good for remover the glue residual.
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AndyCorsaSport
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Registered: 12th Feb 06
Location: Horsforth, West Yorkshire
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If the car has been painted before, and not prepped right, it will rip the paint off aswell, like it did with mine, both sides ended up getting re-sprayed, just so i could get rid of the strips, wish i had kept them now!
Just use a hairdryer and pull them off, then leave glue to cool again, and use some tar and glue remover.
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sam-smith
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so i hold the drier on for a few mins then it should just peel off easily?
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AndyCorsaSport
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Mins? lol no.
Just hold it on, and keep trying to peel it off, if its too stiff warm it more.
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