Pin stripe
01-25-2002, 04:45 PM
#2
That's easy...
Take a credit card and run it under your pinstripe the whole way. They wash and wax the car and you won't even know they were there. I did mine a few months ago and IMO think it looks much cleaner.
-Cyrus
-Cyrus
01-25-2002, 11:54 PM
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i work at a local used car dealer and took the stripes off several cars. hair dryer is a big help, sometimes itll peal right off in strips sometimes itll tear off in small peices being a big pain in the a$$. i took it off on my last car and it left kinda a stain in the paint. you could see a slighty dif shade where the stripe was. so it might be a a easy job maybe not worth the aggrivation. give it a shot, max looks better without it 
01-25-2002, 11:58 PM
#8
Originally posted by finny
i work at a local used car dealer and took the stripes off several cars. hair dryer is a big help, sometimes itll peal right off in strips sometimes itll tear off in small peices being a big pain in the a$$. i took it off on my last car and it left kinda a stain in the paint. you could see a slighty dif shade where the stripe was. so it might be a a easy job maybe not worth the aggrivation. give it a shot, max looks better without it
i work at a local used car dealer and took the stripes off several cars. hair dryer is a big help, sometimes itll peal right off in strips sometimes itll tear off in small peices being a big pain in the a$$. i took it off on my last car and it left kinda a stain in the paint. you could see a slighty dif shade where the stripe was. so it might be a a easy job maybe not worth the aggrivation. give it a shot, max looks better without it
I'm imagining that on a white car, you aren't going to notice it, because oxidation doesn't show on white cars as much.
Hence the term: Resale White.
01-26-2002, 08:19 AM
#10
I have a black SE that came with a pin stripe on it. I'm not particularly fond of it, but I'm afraid if I take it off, even after I remove the glue there will be a pinstrip of a different shade of black on the car...
What are the chances of that happening, and if it does, how to I get rid of that?
What are the chances of that happening, and if it does, how to I get rid of that?
01-26-2002, 08:36 AM
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I left my car out in the hot sun for a couple hours to heat it up, then carefully ran a plastic putty knife under the pin stripe. A citrus-based cleaner cleaned off the adhesive residue.
My car color is Granite Pearl, a dark metallic grey-purple color. The paint under the stripes was a tad darker than the rest of the car at first, but after a week or two, I can't tell a difference. The car looks cleaner without the pin stripe. In fact, I wish I'd never asked the dealer to put one on in the first place. Good luck.
My car color is Granite Pearl, a dark metallic grey-purple color. The paint under the stripes was a tad darker than the rest of the car at first, but after a week or two, I can't tell a difference. The car looks cleaner without the pin stripe. In fact, I wish I'd never asked the dealer to put one on in the first place. Good luck.
01-26-2002, 09:30 AM
#13
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My car is Neptune blue with a tan pin stripe.
Yesterday I broke out the hair dryer, clay bar, polish, and wax.
2 Hours later my car looks dramatically better without it.
I think without the pin stripe it makes the car look shorter as with it the pin stripe goes forever. I will post before and after pics later tonight.
-97SEMAX
Yesterday I broke out the hair dryer, clay bar, polish, and wax.
2 Hours later my car looks dramatically better without it.
I think without the pin stripe it makes the car look shorter as with it the pin stripe goes forever. I will post before and after pics later tonight.
-97SEMAX
01-26-2002, 01:37 PM
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Originally posted by iansw
What color was the last car?
I'm imagining that on a white car, you aren't going to notice it, because oxidation doesn't show on white cars as much.
Hence the term: Resale White.
What color was the last car?
I'm imagining that on a white car, you aren't going to notice it, because oxidation doesn't show on white cars as much.
Hence the term: Resale White.
metalic green
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