how to remove pinstrips?

thanks for the info! got way too busy today... will try to pick one up tomorrow..

 

Let us know how it goes.

 

sorry, I know it has been a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG time... but since it's my friend's car, it took me a while to get to it.

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after:

 

I used heat gun + plastic scraper to remove the pin strips first. turns out the lock end of the zip tie was the easiest thing I could find and use.


There was a lot of adhesive left. First tried Adam's Swirl & Haze then with Menzerna SIP both with yellow pad. Tried both PC and Makita. Some came off, but not all and took a lot of time. I then tried googone with yellow pad on a PC. It actually remove the adhesive pretty nicely and didn't take as much effort as before. Since I was on PC I didn't have to worry about burning the paint.

So it's all gone now!

 

Nice job and it looks better with out the stripes...:thumb:

 

thanks! oh yeah, it does look A LOT better without... Too bad the guy just wanted a simple detail, nothing fancy. Which I understand, it's just an old 4Runner... But it would be nice to bring it back to live.

 

Detail, who's Evo is that and who is it tuned by, if you don't mind me asking?

I'm often in the SJ area for school (SJSU) and was wondering if I may have somehow crossed paths with you, hehe.

 

haha I don't think you've ever seen that evo on the street. It's a full blown race car own by Speed Element, built by Speed Element and Tuned by Speed Element. The owner is a good friend of mine and I do a lot of my work there.

I drive a slow 00 Subaru 2.5 RS and 08 BMW 328i.

Leo