MaximaGirl02

LOL anyone in AZ want to come help me w/ my rear freaken clear marker.. The stock red one will not come off. and I try everything and I my paint keeps chipping.... I am frustrated w/ this matter .. and I need to get them off. I tried a flathead screw driver.... i tried it wa/ a rag.. I give up .. Please please help.. thank you!

NuJerseyDrive

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Too bad ur not in Jersey

Seriously though, I had the same problem with the rear markers as well. I left a deep scratch on my baby for them things. It eventually came of with a little more pressure. Any AZ fellas wanna help this lady out?

MaximaGirl02

Yeah Some nice sweet guy help me please!!!!

did you have to use touch up paint?? I don't feel so bad now.. I am not the only one here... that scratched my precious baby I am still crying!!!

JoesMAX

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it definitely is a pain... i put the front and back on my cousins 2k max... you have to do it on the fatter side, and just use a rag and a thin flathead screwdriver and try not to dent the paint

MaximaGirl02

It seems impossible to do.. I thought about using a spoon.. with a rag over it.. seem like it would work better.. I think I need someone to do it for me I can't bare to see my car cry from paint chips..

drudawg888

maximagirl, i feel your pain.. when i first tried to pry the rear markers off i couldn't even BUDGE it.. needless to say i was frustrated so i put it aside.

a few weeks later i tried again, this time with a bigger flathead screwdriver and a thinner piece of cloth and VOILA! it just popped out so easily.. i left scratching my head.

so just keep trying!

NuJerseyDrive

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I didn't want to take the touch up paint route. I remember people her saying that it looked horrible. I just used Meguiars XScratch over and over again. You can hardly see the scratch now. This XScratch thing really works. I've used it on so many scratches, which are now gone.

MaximaGirl02

Hey well while your at it come ova here and do mine k??

well mine isn't a scratch it's a chip.. do you reccomend me using the paint touch they give u at NISSAN parts center.. they said if you do a good job you can hardly tell.. I paint my nails good maybe I can do a good job! hehe but That still doesn't solve my headache w/ the LITTLE Ugly Markers that don't want to come off.. H E L P! lol

JoesMAX

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just use something that isnt thick, so you arent wedging too hard between the light and the bumper

NuJerseyDrive

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Hmm. Jersey to AZ? Hope it's worth the trip

Since your a pro with them little brushes I guess give it a go. As for the side markers, keep trying with a little more force but please be careful. Otherwise you'll be using a much larger brush than ur accustomed to.

jtkirk00

Same problem here. I finally pulled mine as hard as I could with one hand, and with the other took a grip on the marker. I then pulled as hard as I could and broke off a clip on the back of the marker. I looked at the back of the marker only to find out that it was assembled incorrectly. Oh well, it's off now and the paint chips aren't too big. Good luck! Keep pulling.

MaximaGirl02

well i have decided maybe I need a smaller thinner screwdriver.. anyways is there a certain size i should get Iam planning on going to sears tonight to get one.. any ideas on what size to get.. so I can tell the sales guy what I need?

Ludacris

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The rear left one was a b!tch to take out..chipped paint and red marker. I tried using thinner ones and nothing worked, just tugged real hard

drudawg888

being a girl has its advantages in this forum.. i posted the same thing with the same problem a while ago and i got like 3 responses.. heheh.

MaximaGirl02

LOL well it loooks Like we all have problems... with these damn sidemarkers maybe we all need to complain to nissan about this..

MaximaGirl02

LOL I am sorry

Versace

DONT USE A SCREWDRIVER

Get a thin strap (about the thickness of a seatbelt) put it under the back of the sidemarker and yank everything out. A screwdriver just damages the paint and chips the lense.

Colonel

What I found is after I gouged the crap outta the one side (left) is not to actually PRY the side but rather insert the "prying device" straight in (at the front end closest to front of the car), carefully, and then laterally (sp?) moved to the reflector side. Kinda like moving a slide bar. I did this one the second side w/o marring the paint or mutalating the reflector. I used one of the Craftsman shorty screwdrivers and it was a wide thin blade.

I was however able to get the whole bumper painted when some bozo bonked the rear at a stoplight. No real damage, but a free paint job!

Good luck!