Removing embelms/symbols on cars

[dsturbd 10+ year member]

Anyone have experience with this, I want to make it look a little cleaner and remove the Civic and LX off the rear of my car, it's glue on, and I will be using a hair dryer, my question is will this leave a different color pain where civic use to be? or would it be some type of glue that I will have to remove, if you have any experience with this, please let me know, thanks.

Also not sure what they're called, but I want to remove those black strips that run down the side of the car about half way up and down of the doors.

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[crunktimes.com 5,000+ posts]

Depends on how long it has been on there and how bad the sun has faded the paint.. You are probably safer if your car is garaged and

I did mine about 2 years after I got it and it looks perfect.

 

[Dozy_production 10+ year member]

watch how long you have the heat gun on there, and just use some strong floss to wedge the stuff off there. Then its a lot of tar remover and similar products to get the glue off. The paint underneath will potentially look newer than your exposed paint. It depends on how fair you've been treating your car.

 

[azbass 5,000+ posts]

its not rocket science dude, just pull it off, then wipe off the goo with some googone or rubbing alcohol

 

[warriorlax45 10+ year member]

i took the symbols off my neon with floss and it just left some glue behind. I just such some rubbing alcohol and scrubbed for awhile and then did some polish and now you cant tell it was ever there.

 

[Lingerfelt 10+ year member]

Pinstripes (at least old ones) are a BIIIIIIIIIIIITCH to remove.

Good luck.

 

[fbi90909 5,000+ posts]

removing the pinstripe may be a little diffucult and very time consuming to do it right.

as for the emblems. depending on year i wouldn't just run out there and rip them off. some of them are in there with pins. i've seen some hondas where people take off the H emblem and have 2 little holes in the trunk where the pins used to go.

 

[budahbuddy803 10+ year member]

I used fishing line. Removed the glue with a claybar and bug&tar remover. Re-polish and wax.

 

[dsturbd 10+ year member]

Alright I just took them off and yes the Honda emblem left two tiny holes, I guess I will just ignore that since it doesn't really go directly into my trunk, and I have some goof off or something I will use, thanks for the help.

 

[azbass 5,000+ posts]

omg the world goes on!

 

[NoPh33rRaCiNg 10+ year member]

i used hairdryer, then goo gone on my blazer, turned out perfectly

 

[andrewmoore13 10+ year member]

i used hairdryer, then goo gone on my blazer, turned out perfectly

did the same to my trailblazer. looks nice and clean.

 

[azbass 5,000+ posts]

i used hairdryer, then goo gone on my blazer, turned out perfectly

omg I did the same thing for mine, it turned out perfectly also

 

[atoz350 10+ year member]

omg I did the same thing for mine, it turned out perfectly also

OMG! Me too! My results were astonishingly similar.