What is the best way to remove stickers\decals from your bike\vehicle and not damage the finish underneath? :confused:

I figure with all the sticker s!uts on the trail, someone has done it a feww times before. :D

Good question - I want to know too.

Blowtorch

howitzer

3M makes a decal removing wheel, or maybe a a hair dryer and a credit card.

3M pinstriping removal wheel. This is what we use in our body shop w/ perfect results. Use a die grinder w/ 10k rpm or air controller to slow a fast die grinder down. Call you local auto body supply they should have it

OH OH I am a sticker SLUT :flipoff2:


1. park car in direct sun
2. take some soapy water
3. spray sticker until it is soaking wet
4. use thumb nail very slowly to start a corner, keep spraying soapy water on sticker and pull

It will come right off

Originally posted by Franklin
3M pinstriping removal wheel. This is what we use in our body shop w/ perfect results. Use a die grinder w/ 10k rpm or air controller to slow a fast die grinder down. Call you local auto body supply they should have it

What's the wheel made of? Can it be used on any material? I want to take a couple of decals off my bike but don't want to mark the black fairing underneath.

the 3M part number for the stripe off wheel is 07498 any auto body supply store would have it

Originally posted by ShawnM


What's the wheel made of? Can it be used on any material? I want to take a couple of decals off my bike but don't want to mark the black fairing underneath.

its a soft rubber ish type of stuff...it dosent hurt paint or anything...we use it to remove decals off the side of our peterbilts

Originally posted by Chaz Murray


its a soft rubber ish type of stuff...it dosent hurt paint or anything...we use it to remove decals off the side of our peterbilts

Yep what Chaz said. Almost like a pencil eraser except beige. Works killer

OK here is my one actual helpful post this year, consider yourself special I used it for you.:flipoff2:


http://www.magicamerican.com/googone.shtml
this schtuff is the shiznit!

another vote for the 3m wheel. they are 20 bucks and will last a long time. i peeled off all the uber gay decals on my 79 toy with one wheel. made short work of it.

Originally posted by Just Some Asshole
OK here is my one actual helpful post this year, consider yourself special I used it for you.:flipoff2:


http://www.magicamerican.com/googone.shtml
this schtuff is the shiznit!


Careful with that link. Watch out for the :rainbow:.

http://www.magicamerican.com/ggg.pdf

Originally posted by killingthemonkey



Careful with that link. Watch out for the :rainbow:.

http://www.magicamerican.com/ggg.pdf

whatchutalkinboutwillis! Polly is an all out goowhore!:flipoff2:

Heat gun and fingernail, roll the decal back on itself starting at a corner.

Works well for me with bumper stickers, and my neighbor used it to remove decals all down the side of his truck that advertised some kind of business. They had been there so long the paint had faded, yet they peeled right off with some heat.

Simon

so, will that wheel help take off large decals like this?

Originally posted by surveyboy
so, will that wheel help take off large decals like this?

That was what I was just wondering. Mind you my decals aren't nearly as large as yours but are much more then pinstrips.

Heat gun

Originally posted by ShawnM


That was what I was just wondering. Mind you my decals aren't nearly as large as yours but are much more then pinstrips.


have you seen the decals they put on 79 toys? there is a 8-9 1" wide strips going up the hood, on the door, and following down the bed. they were so baked on that the wheel was the only thing that would take it off.

Originally posted by ShawnM


That was what I was just wondering. Mind you my decals aren't nearly as large as yours but are much more then pinstrips.

Yes it will take the stickers off but will do nothing for the confused sexuality of the owner:flipoff2:

Originally posted by McJeep
Heat gun

Heat gun + good paint ==REALLY FUCKED UP PAINT

Seriously I have had to repair paint jobs after people tried a heat gun and left it on there too long. $20 for the wheel and no probs ever.

Originally posted by Chrisjeep7



have you seen the decals they put on 79 toys? there is a 8-9 1" wide strips going up the hood, on the door, and following down the bed. they were so baked on that the wheel was the only thing that would take it off.

ok, you sold me on the wheel.

and franklin: :flipoff2: :flipoff2: :flipoff2:

http://www.ronsoncorp.com/images/ronsonol_12oz.gif

test a small patch of paint first. ive seen it react now and then

I second the GooGone for the smaller stuff.

A bondo spreader to get most fo the sticker off and the googone to get rid of the sticky stuff.

As for the big stickers, a heat gun will fawk up paint, put a girly hair dryer on low should soften stuff up enought to start peeling...

Originally posted by Franklin
Heat gun + good paint ==REALLY FUCKED UP PAINT

Seriously I have had to repair paint jobs after people tried a heat gun and left it on there too long . $20 for the wheel and no probs ever.

Well yeah, that's a factor too I guess, if the individual using it is ummmm "gifted?" :flipoff2:

You're right though, the wheel is more user friendly. I equate the wheel to a dremel and the heat gun to an angle grinder ;)

I took some BIG graphics off a car with the goo gone, I also had some good luck with WD-40. The graphics were vinyl and were about 8 inches wide and ran from the turn signals up front to the tailights in back, it took about 2 and a half hours to get em all off.

just so happen to have one of the wheels in my desk

Originally posted by Chaz Murray
just so happen to have one of the wheels in my desk

Looking at the shank on that, I don't think it would fit my dremel. Are there different shank sizes available. No air tools in my shop, it's all muscle power!

Originally posted by ShawnM


Looking at the shank on that, I don't think it would fit my dremel. Are there different shank sizes available. No air tools in my shop, it's all muscle power!

High speed elec drill will work too. Just slower. I know what ya mean about no air, BTDT.

GOOF OFF (http://www.goof-off.com/) works great...

Originally posted by ShawnM


Looking at the shank on that, I don't think it would fit my dremel. Are there different shank sizes available. No air tools in my shop, it's all muscle power!


i really dont think a dremel would be up to the task...like someone else said..use a drill motor

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I have taken off dealer stickers with a heat gun and goo gone.

As long as you aren't a complete moron, you shouldn't screw up your paint this way. I did this about 3 years ago to my current car and you can't tell the sticker was ever there.

3M wheel is the chit.

i used my wifes blowdryer on high & my fingernail to raise an edge then as i was peeling off the stickers i kept the blowdryer pointed on the part of the sticker that was about to peel off and they came off very easily. then used some wd40 to remove any glue residue. then waxed it. worked great & easy. i also did this at night when it was about 50 deg outside and without the blowdryer there was no way the stickers were coming off. even a complete moron wont screw up the paint with a hair blowdryer.

Originally posted by luv4low
...even a complete moron wont screw up the paint with a hair blowdryer.

You underestimate the power of stupidity.

Originally posted by Entropy


You underestimate the power of stupidity.

yes your right. time & time again im proven wrong when i think someone cant be that stupid.

well I don't think I'm a complete moron, I tried both the hair dryer method and non hair dryer. the only difference is the ease that the decal came off. still had damage to the underlying paint, but, I feel that the paint was weak in areas and the decal removal just finished them off. heres the results

all the grey spots are where the paint came up

before:
http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/attachment.php?s=&postid=2047347

after:

ouch

still looks better.

Originally posted by Just Some Asshole
OK here is my one actual helpful post this year, consider yourself special I used it for you.:flipoff2:


http://www.magicamerican.com/googone.shtml
this schtuff is the shiznit!

Got lots of bottles of Googone at work. I use the WD40 instead. Faster and cleans up with a bit of rubbing alcohol.

Can minimize the work if you've got a high pressure washer. It'll take off most of a sticker, leaving only a bit of residue and maybe fragments to deal with.

Your problem wasn't with the process you used to remove the decals, it was the shitty paint on those trucks. There was nothing else you could have done.:(

who's got the link to the jackass who used like 80 grit to remove stickers from his Jetta?

one of the funniest threads evah

Surely you could sand that down and have some $200 paint place reshoot that for ya. Like Blackdog said, it wasn't your fault, it was the shittay paint. :(

Originally posted by Chemical442
Surely you could sand that down and have some $200 paint place reshoot that for ya. Like Blackdog said, it wasn't your fault, it was the shittay paint. :(

I'm trying to find someone local thats got the paint gun and paint hookup

alot of the fords have two tone paint, top middle bottom, where the top and bottom are the same color. right now we are just debating on what color to paint the middle. I say grey, my wife is saying kawasakii green like my jeep. :rolleyes: