how can i safley remove my eblems off my car? how do i remove the sticky residue without ruining the paint?

 

Dental Floss works well.
Clean up the residue with WD-40 then polish the area.

 

On a warm day or with a hairdryer (be VERY careful not to apply too much heat to paint) take dental floss and carefully slide it down between the emblem and the paint. Make sure you put pressure more towards the emblem when sliding it down so that it doesnt scratch the paint. Afterwards, i just used some GOO GONE to remove the sticky stuff. After a few coats of goo gone , you should be set.

 

kool thanks i'll try it, thanks again guys

 

Or you can use a fishing line

 

ok, i took off the emblem and used wd-40 because i didnt have goo gone handy but i still cant get the rest off. there is a very light layer of the sticky stuff thats as smooth as the paint and i tried and tried to get it but i cant. where can i get goo gone? at home depot, savons???????

 

Goo Gone should be available at Home Depot I'll be buying it tomorrow from Wal-mart or Home Depot

 

this board is fantastic, kool thanks for the info jatan and the rest. i will go to home depot tomorrow and try out their self checkout for the first time, thanks again

 

The search function is your friend. Any questions you have, try the search and if the results don't answer your question, try posting then. Good luck. The shaved look rocks.

 

Slightly off-topic, but those self checkout thingies are pretty neat! We had them here at Super K-mart, but it didn't catch on too well and they took em away.

 

They have it at Home Depot and Jewel. They closed them down at some K-marts I always use the self checkout at Jewel

 

To get the outline or film/ whatever else is left on the paint from where the emblems were, use scratch remover (polish basically) I used mothers scratch remover on the outline and it totally got rid of every last trace. I wouldn't be able to find where the emblems were if I tried. Even when I shine a bright light at my trunk lid when its dark out you can't see any differences in the reflection. Use a couple coats just to be sure, then go over the area with some wax.

 

kool thanks

 

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have your tried using the #$@# search!??!?!! this $hit doesn't work 5 times out of 6 (I tested it). when it does work, it's good, but you susually have to do do 2-3 searches to find anythin useful.

next time you flame someone for not using the search, maybe you should think of the fact that this board has some major bandwidth and server issues.

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in fact, I just tried to post this and I had to wait 5 mins before it would let me post...

 

http://www.cardomain.com/member_page...=259701&page=9

get this stuff...i got it at wal-mart----->

 

I bought the "Bug 'n Tar Remover" in a spray can from Wal-mart and it didn't help much, just made the glue unsticky I'm going to try and take it off now, but if it doesn't work I'll go buy that remover. My car looks wierd with MAXIMA lettered in glue

 

alcohol pads work pretty well and some degreaser

 

I used the Bug n' Tar Off on the trunk and it worked fine, then used some paint cleaner n' polish, buffed it and vooala...looks great

 

hey guys i was wondering. how can i remove the word maxima on my 98se but then re attach it in a different space. so basically what kind of adhesive would i use. i'm trying to take off the maxima, make it into a max and then center it on the rear. any ideas?

 

double sided tape will reattach the emblems.

~THT

 

You can use a hairdryer and then GooGone.

The GooGone can be bought in a dollar store I think.

 

There is some emblem adhesive that you can use to put it back on some where (like on the dash board in front of the passenger seat) http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=emb...t&cop=mss&tab=

 

Would this technique also apply to removing aftermarket wood trim?

I bought my max with some sun damaged wood trim and I want it gone.

 

Dental Floss Goo Gone From your local auto store and 10 finger nails ready to be ground down and bleeding j/k about an hour of working away at the glue not hard just time consuming

 

wow this thread is OLD!

 

Make sure you get 3M brand. I had duck brand and it didn't last too long. Now I'm using 3M exterior mounting tape.

 

heck yeah its old

 

hey is goo gone sold at lowe's?

 

It's sold everywhere including Lowe's and pretty much every auto parts store.

 

I just yanked mine off then took off the glue with paint thinner.

 

hey thanks! gotta do it as my project today. ^______^

 

hey i just took them off. took me about 20 mins removing the sticky stuff but its coo now. thanks guys!

 

I used a hair dryer first then the dental floss, I pried it off then used a mix of WD-40 and bug and tar remover with the hair dryer. took me about 15 min

 

Talk about thread being alive from the dead...

 

So easy with a heat gun...I highly recommend it!

 

wow first post was 10-25-03 and its been brought back... very interesting. But hey i did just take my emblems off my car yesterday, i used wd-40 to get that glue off but it took forever

 

I'd say maximilia revived it so he could get over the 15 post minimum. I would not recommend using WD-40 on the paint.

 

^^ i agree, that will eat at the wax on your car. Hair dryer and some floss should work fine. Tar remover is good for the glue, but test it out on a small area to make sure it wont damage your paint.

 

ive been following housecors how-to's and he has never led me the wrong way

 

I know it's wrong to revive this thread again, but I think I might do it anyway. Does the current condition of your paint pretty much determine the amount of presence of the shadow effect? Or is it possible with the polish to make the shadow completely disappear? My paint is not bad, it's just as old as the car. I am hesitant to remove the emblem and have an unfixable cosmetic problem.