Debadge your car in 10 minutes, WARNING dial up users

[savage1987]

haha you'll have to wait until I stop using the car.. Need a bit of money saved then I'll get myself a VP Calais instead. Then you can buy my bootlid Not sure how long that'll be though!

Sam

[alokin]

hey. me and my mate, debadged our cars 2day. ive got a vx acclaim, he has a vy acclaim. looks much better and cleaner. thanks for the write up.

[nicko]

no worries mate, good to c people getting some results from it

[VT_Berlina89]

im gunna pull the black strips off the VT anyone have a really good method of doing it, and is it just stuck on or are there any holes? im gunna debadge the whole thing this weekend and try and get the strips off see how i go, if it comes to it ill just get all my mates together and get on 1 section each and get everyone into the car to give it a hardcore clean,

Mark

[nicko]

mate the black strips are extremely different to get off compared to the badges:

this is what i wrote in a PM to another member have a read and then work out if you want to try get them off.

Quote:
Originally Posted by meanvy
G'day mate,
Didn't know if you had done one....but i just read through your de-badge thread and it was awesome. Thanks so much. The debadging could have gone pear shaped without your help i think. But now i'm wanting to do the black stripes along the side of the car, and i noticed yours were off. I was wondering if you had taken photos and stuff of your doing that, cos i heard the black parts are harder to get off than the badges, and i don't want to get stuck somewhere along the line and end up scratching my paintwork.
Any help would be appreciated.
Cheers.
Mitch

Hey mitch,

The black strips are a pain in the arse to remove. Thats not to say that its imposible though! I ripped mine off with my hands and it left a very thick hard dry eurithane glue. Its prety much cement!! You need to use what called a 'caramel wheel' to remove this. A caramel wheel basically goes into the end of your drill and it spins around slowly rubbing the glue/cement off, the caramel wheel is a semi hard rubber and you will need more than one to complete your car on both sides. I contacted a crash supply shop and got them for $13 each.

I did one side (about 10 hours work and 2 caramel wheels) of my car and i could see that when i pulled the strips off the car i had actually pulled somepaint off with it. Because my car is 2pack silver paint it showed up and i wasnt very happy. I ended up having the entire car resprayed due to someone keying it so it didnt really matter.

If i took more time in getting the strips off by using a heat gun and only pulling on the strip slowly i wouldnt have damaged the paint at all, i was just in a rush which was a bad idea. Be prepared to spend a month of weekends just slowly working away at it with your caramel wheel and you should be ok.

I found using the caramel wheel 'dry' with no chemicals like metho etc worked much better.

Good luck with it, hope this helps

Nicko

[VT_Berlina89]

damn, your thinkn days of workl getting them off??? becouse on my berlina they have a silver line along them and thats all warped and looks like utter crap so i think im going to give it a try , ill pull one of my mates up n get him to give me a hand with it, he has a 300zx so he knows what its like to spend time on a car, (it keeps stuffing up i keep telling him get a commy, bloody Nissan drivers just dont listen)

thanx for the help, ill try get some pics when i get around to doing it might be a few weeks yet and ill make sure its well documented so it might help others in the quest for a clean car


Mark

[nicko]

sounds good mate, have fun and best of luck

[v8_jofes]

How's this for odd... When I bought my vx S2 acclaim, there were the strips on the doors on one side, but not on the other.... obvious sign of a rebuild after a prang? (only done 83000 early this yr when I bought it) or did the acclaims just come like this? Seems odd.
At least being an acclaim they were painted the same colour as the car, so they dont' stand out too much. Still, will give removing them a go tomorrow with the above techniques. Will try to take photos as I go.
Cheers for the ideas (didn't think metho would be worth a shot)

[Branch]

sales of prepwash have gone up 800% after this thread.

[nicko]

lucky i bought shares in it you debadged yours yet branch?

iv got a massive tin of prepwash at my joint swing around if you want

[Branch]

nah not yet, there's a few other cosmetic issues with the paint of my car i'm not too happy about too.

[elemeNtz]

thanks man!
i did mine early and it looks so much cleaner