I've started to remove my pinstripe - but I've got a problem

[Mastrcruse]

I am trying to remove a pinstripe/badge residue from my new trunklid. I might try the goo gone stuff but what about magic eraser? Will that also take paint up too? My car is zinno if that matters

[Sean]

Wow, this is old, and just happened to run across this.

The eraser tool may work. Half my car still has traces of my pinstripe on it. I gave up. lol Maybe I'll undertake it again sometime - but my roof is beginning to fade and I wax my car maybe once a year. School is too demanding...hehe

[Dibo718]

im going to try it soon and i hear it works wonders, 3m adhesive remover i guess really works. its worth a shot.

[Rocla]

I used real heat gun instead of haridryer, helped much to get vinyl off.

Heat gun will very easily burn the paint(and your fingers), so be careful.

Rubbing alcohol or acethone will work with the glue residue, if you can't use the rubber disc.

20 year old pinstripe will leave shiny area on paint, and it will be a real PITA to buff to match rest of the paint.

[whelton70]

I use to own a detail shop and pin strips can be a BIG pain in the butt more so if they real old too!! I think its 3m that makes an attachment that goes on a crodless drill that is like a rubber disk. It is used to remove pinstrips and other decals on cars. It actually works great and gets the decal or strip glue and all. Also if you are very careful you can remove the strip if it is coming off in very small pieces with a single edge razor blade, but you have to be very careful just to get the strip and not go to deep and sliver the paint off. Once it is off then to remove the adhesive just a good adhesive remover or even a paint thinner and do like 1 foot areas at a time and just keep rubbing the adhesive and once it gets loosened up then it will come off alot easier with some good elbow grease. Make sure the elbow grease is a heavier weight as it will be needed alot!!! LOL unfortunately there is not a real easy way. Also the raised area and difference in the paint color is NOT reversable at all. Even if you repaint the car !!! If the car is repainted you have to take the areas where the strip was all the way down and bring back with primmer or it will just transmit through the new paint. Same goes for birdsh.. too !! Bugs!! Treesaps!! Acid rain hard water spots!! and any thing else that etches in the paint. Hope this was helpful to anyone needing the information. Feel free to ask me if you need more help.

[Rocla]

difference in the paint color is NOT reversable at all. Even if you repaint the car !!!

I've never repainted a car which had stripes, will it be enough if I sand the clearcoat away from the area of the stripe(and about an inch from surrond), or should I grind to the bare metal?

[whelton70]

No !! In most cases the strips have raised the primer coat beneath the paint as well. And it will have to be taken down further than just the clear coat. Same goes for birdsh.. stains. I have color sanded birdsh.. stains to be perfect looking again where it could not be seen under a jewler's magnifying glass that I use when needed and in several weeks it has returned. Bascially I am saying when it etches the primer coat then you have to take it that far or it will return. Although acid rain spots usually just etch the top coat of the clear or enamel finish and in most cases can just be wet sanded out.

[Rocla]

No !! In most cases the strips have raised the primer coat beneath the paint as well. And it will have to be taken down further than just the clear coat. Same goes for birdsh.. stains. I have color sanded birdsh.. stains to be perfect looking again where it could not be seen under a jewler's magnifying glass that I use when needed and in several weeks it has returned. Bascially I am saying when it etches the primer coat then you have to take it that far or it will return. Although acid rain spots usually just etch the top coat of the clear or enamel finish and in most cases can just be wet sanded out.

I believe you, in one of my previous cars I had oil stain on door, the door was sandedto factory primer, yet the spot became visible after few weeks from painting the car.

Never thought that the stripe glue would do the same thing, thanks, propably saved my future paintjob, since the stripes are not coming back.

[osoquicke30]

this may have been said but i used this product by 3m thats removes wax and stickers. got it at the parts store and it worked great. used an old tooth brush for the hard parts.