Rubber strips around car

[Blakie]

Hey guys sorry didnt know what to call them.. but the rubber strip around my car is fairly cracked and isnt looking too good, i can pull some of it off fairly easily this doesnt seem like much of an issue. When i bought the car it had one door with a silver metal strip instead and looks alot better, i was wondering if anyone knows where this can be bought and price etc.. help would be appreciated

heres a pic of the existing metal strip sorry its taken in bad lighting and on my phone

[Torquen]

lol, adam hows it goin.
um well you gota pull it of then scrape the shit of...i did it to mine.
onli do it if ur prepared 2 spend like 4-5hours scrapin black shit of from underneath... msg me if u want help

[Blakie]

oh sweet mines awesome cos its cracked itll come off easy , oi did u take the bumper ones off!? i wana get metal strips instead of the rubber like in the pic theyre metal.. or paint the existing ones... wud prefer metal :P yeh i havnt seen ur car for ages ill have to c it again 1 day lol

ne1 know where to buy the metal strips from :S?

[Haze]

its the tape that causes the black shit. um theres a thread about removing it and what does it best ad from what i read eucalyptus oil.
Removing Black Rubber Side Strips

[Blakie]

sounds like no1 knows where to get these strips from im guessing theyre not really common i might just take them off and leave em... or take em off and paint em any1 got pics of a car with strips off?

[Torquen]

leave em off! they look WAY better... and yes i tried eucalyptus oil and it does sweat F A! i still havnt got all the black shit of myn...aghh the bitchs just dunt want 2 come off. and no i havnt taken my strips of the front n rear bumpers...itd look wierd as.

[TheForgotten]

metal strips around front and rear bars are calais items, and are not a part you can bang on your current bars. they're a completely different bar.

to get the black shit off, use a caramel wheel. it's a disk about 3" across, made of rubber like material. put it in your drill, and rub the sikaflex off.
it's gaurenteed to get it off, but be careful not to burn your paint - just don't hold it in the one spot for too long. no idea where to get one from though, but they're pretty expensive, so maybe your best bet to talk to a paint shop

[nick88]

i got my caramel wheel from an auto paint supplier, cost like $15 for 2
best thing ever to get that sikaflex sh!t off if u have 2pac paint, not arcylic tho...

[nick88]

Heres some pics, excuse the stocky wheels n ride height:P:

[Torquen]

are all VS's 2pac paint??

[Blakie]

the metal strips are already on my car... on one door...? if u look in the pic thats metal on my exec.. but i guess that means u guys wudnt know where they got it from?

sweeeet cheers for the pics that looks hell nice! ... might do that to mine :P howd u get em off front n rear bumpers? was it alot harder?

[nick88]

yes im pretty certain that al VS's were 2pac paint
My bumpers had stickers, not actuall rubber so it was alot easier, i just peeled them off

Nick

[Blakie]

serious.. thats pretty cool :P i might paint the rubber strips.. let me know what u guys think.. a silver paint or something cos my white rubber strips are a bit rank and black now

[TheForgotten]

i got my caramel wheel from an auto paint supplier, cost like $15 for 2
best thing ever to get that sikaflex sh!t off if u have 2pac paint, not arcylic tho...

jeezus they're about $80 each up here...

[nick88]

wheres uphere?

[semi]

blakie, dont use a caramel wheel on your car. you'll strip the paint off, bacause your vr has acrylic paint. only way to do it is scraping it off with a razor blade and eucalypus oil. The side strips are glued on with sikaflex/urethrane. However, the ones in your bumpers are only held on with double sided tape, which can be removed simply by rubbing with your fingers

[Blakie]

ah really do VR's have acrylic paint? cheers lol wont be doing that then.. i might just take em off and paint them now considering it will look weird taking the strips off the front and back bumper just trying to think of a colour.. original were white.. now a nice black mouldy colour lol might go for silver

one side of my car has the rubber strips stuck on with double sided tape and the other feels alot harder to get off.. :S

[Torquen]

yeh id have 2 say..'nick88' im really warming to that look with removed rear and front strips! i thought it looked shit at first but now after lookin at it for a while im startin 2 apreciate it
mite do the same...ohh and cheers for the caramel wheel advice, il go to an auto paint shop and buy a couple. cheers fellas!