bump strips

[phil_h]

just had a crack at removing the bump strips- started just by trying the little bit under the side indys. came off fine as did the adhesive strips but now theres a line on residue stuff from the adhesive that wont come off at all! any tips for gettin it off??

 

[SimonP]

Soak it in petrol and get at it with something soft/plasticy...old credit card or something. Once done, cut the area back with G3 or something, then buff up to shine with a good polish.

You can burn the stuff off with a foam/rubber composite wheel (drill attachment) too.

 

[phil_h]

cheers mate, will give it a go in a bit!

 

[astraman1]

surgical spirits works too but i did it the hard way with blisters

 

[Greg]

use a old credit card to remove the adhesive strips then use t-cut to match with the rest of the car

 

[LukeC]

took me and 2 mates 4 hours to get mine off using autoglym intensive tar remover.... haha

 

[jack2006]

took me and 2 mates 4 hours to get mine off using autoglym intensive tar remover.... haha

What??

Were they using feathers to get it off?

I used auto glym internsive tar on mine, did a good job and took about 20minutes, make sure you apply lots of pressure when using it though.

 

[phil_h]

im about qaurter of the way through doing it now with autoglym intensive tar stuff- its lookin good but christ- its knackering!!

 

[DavebGsi]

wen i did mine, everythin came off, all it left was the color being a different color to the car due to fade! just oilished n tcut the car n all now! think i was lucky by sound of u lot!

 

[astraman1]

surgical spirits will take 5 mins to do the lot i wish i knew that when i did mine

 

[lee-roy]

when i done mine i just used the girlfriends hair dryer and peeled the sticky strips off, worked fine

 

[glenis]

warm them up or use cellulose thinners, its pisses them off

 

[msdj]

strips

just had a crack at removing the bump strips- started just by trying the little bit under the side indys. came off fine as did the adhesive strips but now theres a line on residue stuff from the adhesive that wont come off at all! any tips for gettin it off??

beleive it or not i used a hair dryer sum hair laquer and t cut to take of the glue comes of quiet easy heat it up and then spray the hair laquer and rubb of

 

[C3MKY]

Due to a recent respray on a Gsi i stripped (Cavalier) Upon removing said bump strips, the paint came off with them too.! Not pretty lol

 

[Niffer022]

owwww sounds nasty..... any pics.....

 

[Nathan...]

yea mine did that too on my astra it looks gash but i have a touch up pen which will have to do for now, once i get all the crap off. lol