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Those hideous side guard stick on moldings are gone
Since the car had been resprayed, i had concerns that some paint may lift when the moldings were peeled off.
That didn't happen, but they left a bunch of foam covered adhesive on the paint.
Peeling the moldings off took about 5 minutes, doing it carefully, removing the foam back and adhesive from the car took about 5 hours, including clean and wax the areas.. My fingers and thumb are sore, but the car looks a whole lot better now.
removing the foam back and adhesive from the car took about 5 hours, including clean and wax the areas.. My fingers and thumb are sore, but the car looks a whole lot better now
For future reference, tar remover (detailing product) also does a great job of melting adhesive. I'm pretty sure most tar remover is just turps 😂
I was using commercial (Auto paint store) adhesive remover. WD-40, which is tar remover was not giving desired results.
I could have used the WD-40 and a credit card scraper like they show on how to remove adhesive vids, but only on something I didn't care about, like an ugly pedestrian car such as a Yugo, Trabant, or Fiat Multipla.
I was using commercial (Auto paint store) adhesive remover. WD-40, which is tar remover was not giving desired results.
I could have used the WD-40 and a credit card scraper like they show on how to remove adhesive vids, but only on something I didn't care about, like an ugly pedestrian car such as a Yugo, Trabant, or Fiat Multipla.
Doug
Damn that must be some serious adhesive, tar remover has always got rid of sticky gunk in a few minutes when I've tried!
Yes those are hideous and you have earned a few points of esteem with the Jag gods for doing your part to remedy an obvious booger job from a previous misinformed owner I suspect. This is right up there with removing a hood leaper, chrome wheel arch covers, or non-OEM wheels (BBS excluded). BTW nothing beats Goo Gone for removing adhesive sticky stuff. Keep up the good taste!
The Goo Gone didn't work well, either. I already had some of that. Maybe it was the age of the adhesive.
BTW, I bought one of these a few months ago. Worth its weight in gold for cleaning wheels and doing low side jobs (like adhesive removal) on cars, esp once you get over 50 years old.
There is something to be grateful for. Back in the day a lot of those add-on side mouldings were riveted on. Removing them means filling a kajillion hundred holes and repainting!
There is something to be grateful for. Back in the day a lot of those add-on side mouldings were riveted on. Removing them means filling a kajillion hundred holes and repainting!
Cheers
DD
Mine are riveted.
As the BLACK is Real paint with Carbon Black, and not that water-based dark gray garbage they call black these days, I'm not messing with them.
(';')
... BTW, I bought one of these a few months ago. Worth its weight in gold for cleaning wheels and doing low side jobs (like adhesive removal) on cars, esp once you get over 50 years old.
My H&E had the riveted type moldings. I removed them for the respray but did not weld up the holes and have no plan to do so. I plan to replace them and purchase new inserts. This was when I got the car and before the respray
Those hideous side guard stick on moldings are gone
