what did you use to get the adhesive off!!! i'm going crazy! i was using a heat gun and it just wasn't happening!!!! PLEASE HELP ME!!!!

 

try that goo gone stuff, or maybe even lighter fluid. lighter fluid works great on getting stickers and other stuff off of guitars, and guitars have the same kind of paint as cars. i know people who have taken their guitars to auto shops to get them painted.

 

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i used WD40...goo gone works...oh and lots of time and patience

 

couldn't have said it better myself. i used goo gone and lots of scrubbing. it's frustrating, but your car will look much better when you're done. just keep scrubbing and be patient!!

 

Ah, following in the steps of that wise man who first removed his door moldings. I wonder what that guys name was?....

 

hmm....


mabye it was that james92se guy.... i think

yo dood, it was a good idea, i think my car looks 10x better without them

 

i'm always number 2

2k muffler, removed moldings....i need to start a trend...hmmmm

 

I was number 3 I think and I used this rubber eraser thing from 3m...attaches to a drill and pulls all of the adhesive off...without damaging the paint...hope that helps

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I want to do this to, so how do I get started?

I don't have a heat gun, but I can get my hands on a hairdryer…

What next? Did you guys pry them off by hand, or did you get it started using a flathead screwdriver? Please let me know what you did because I want them off as soon as I can get the 'Goo-Gone' and a couple of hours to get them off.

I'd really like to do this tomorrow, so please let me know how to get started. Thanks!

peace2u

 

A hairdryer will work. Just heat them up, and start prying them off any way you can/want. They'll pry off just by pulling them off, and it's easier if you pull with one hand, and with the other scrape away some of the adhesive crap using a screwdriver or something. Then it's just the matter of dealing with the "goo".

 

a hair dryer will work better than my heat gun. i keep burning myself!!! it's too hot!!! i scratched the paint on the right side, and in a moment of insanity i used a power washer. . . it took a little chunk of paint off too!!!! IT"S TAKING FOREVER!!!! i got the right side done, and i was so frustrated after like 5 hours i quit. maybe sunday i'll get around to doing the driver's side. but it does look alot better. i just gotta finish getting the last little bits of adhesive off.

 

Try Goof Off I use it at my job, I'm a detailer so I know this works just be sure to wax it after you're done

 

I'm wondering about doing this to my car just can't picture what it would look like.

Thanks
Jason

 

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i tried goof off. . . it worked ok. . . i'm gonna try some goo gone later. . . .

 

you're STILL working on this? i know i said time and patience but damn

 

well i only have like 2 hours here, an hour there. . . .i'm a busy man!!!!

 

well stop hanging out witht he teeny boppers and get working...

 

19 is legal!!!!! actually, imho, 18 is the best age. they're still nice and skinny before they go to college . . . . MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM good!

 

hey how do you get the yellow tinge off frm where the door guards were......im guessin you guys are gonna say more scrubbin. also you guys max's came with black rubber things over the wheel well too right?

 

I just took mine off. You guys inspired me, i've hated them ever since I bought the car but I didn't know what the paint would look like underneath. I used Simple Green, a screw driver, a tooth brush, and a washcloth. It only took me about one and a half hours, I think mine were pretty dried out from the sun, except for the passenger door it was a pain because the adhesive was still there. It looks 10 times better now. How has anyone took the black strip off around the fender because I want to take those off too but I don't know what they will look like underneath. About the yellow underneath I don't think you can take it off but it looks fine on pearl.

 

Ooooh, geez, get those things off of there! Gotta hate the black strip. I dont think all Maxima's came with them, I know mine didnt have it when we got it. It's a 92 and we got it in 94. But eww, I hate em.

 

Give this a try. "Avon" skin so soft. This works great for removing road film and tar but is made to apply to the skin. Go Figure????

 

what are these black strips you all are talking about?

 

Some Maxima's have this uuuugly black trim around the wheel wells...

 

hmm... sounds ugly. glad mine doesn't have it!!

 

Whats this talk about yellow "stuff" under the door guards?? can that stuff come off??? i did not take the guards of yet but i will this weekend. my max is white
L8r

 

 

i took the trim off one of my doors this afternoon. i just used a long flathead swrewdriver to pry it off. i started picking at the adhesive, then put krud kutter on the stuff and let i soak for a while. then i used a hairdryer and rubbed the stuff off with my fingers. i have 2 blisters now though. do you think using a blow dryer or a heat gun while peeling off the trim will cause there to be less adhesive left on the car?

 

wow, would ya look at what i started!

 

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most likely...i used the same route as you though when i did mine

 

Now the problem is this adhesive goo.

I've tried the Goo-Gone, but it doesn't seem to be doing the trick, unless I'm doing something wrong. It took me all of 5 minutes to pull the trim off both sides of my car, and I know it's going to look much better, but now I have that dark grey adhesive hanging in there. I worked on it for about two hours with the Goo-Gone, a flathead screwdriver and a washcloth, but I wasn't able to hardly get any of the stuff off. I stopped using the screwdriver because I was afraid of scratching up the paint while I tried to remove the 'goo'.

Anybody have any suggestions? While I worked on the driver's side, I tried to soak the passenger's side witht the Goo-Gone, but it didn't seem to do much to loosen the adhesive. Should I try the hairdryer now? Please help - I've got my company's 15th Anniversary party to go to this Sunday, and I don't want to show up with this crap on my car. Thanks for the suggestions and good luck to everybody else that's trying to remove these things.

peace2u

 

Use the heatgun/hairdryer on the adhesive to heat it up as you're working on getting it off. You can kinda roll it when you heat it up a little bit and that seems to help...

 

I'll give it a shot when the weather clears up (By Thursday). It's supposed to rain until then, and I should be able to work the stuff off pretty easily if the hairdryer will help.

peace2u

 

i'm got my dads heatgun, and i'm going to try it out after school on tuesday.

 

The job is nearly 100% completed…

BTW - Thanks to Abbey for the advice with using the Avon "Skin so Soft". I don't think I'll be using it for use on my skin any time soon (unless I'm going somewhere where there's lots of mosquitoes - I heard Skin so Soft is better than most insect repellents for use against mosquitoes).

I was finally able to get the spongy adhesive 'goo' off, and my car looks so much better! I still have to get the actual adhesive off, but I'm sure I can get that off with the Goo-Gone, lighter fluid, etc. Right now, I'm just happy that I've finally got those damned things off. It took me about 3-4 hours of work once I started using the Skin so Soft. One trick when using this or the Goo-Gone is to make sure that you keep the spongy adhesive soaking wet - once it dries, it's harder to remove. Also, I parked my car in the sun so the warmth of the car would help as well (I'm sure it wouldn't have taken me so long if it wasn't cool, windy & partly cloudy yesterday). I would also suggest finding a tool other than a screwdriver to 'scrape' the adhesive from the car. Oddly enough, my 7 year old son found an abandoned zip-tie which I used to keep from scratching the paint. I imagine an old plastic spatula would probably make the job easier as well.

Thanks again, everyone - I'm a much happier Maxima Owner!!!

peace2u