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justinfox

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I have used the hair dryer before, and it can work on newer stickers. For others you can try Desolve-it or prepsol.

I have taken off my nissan and GTS-t stickers off the bootlid of mine but there is still one 'powered by' above the nissan one that i took off. i think it has a clear coat over it and will need a respray when i take my wing off and get the lid fully sprayed....

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Yeah the hair dryer work for some stickers.

I tried taking these metallic stickers that has been on my car for 2 years now and the heat is not working.

The stickers seems to be dried up and when I go to peel it just crack/flake off and it has been a BI7CH trying to get it off. I only taken a few off so far. Still have about 60 little checkers shits to peel off slowly. Maybe one a day and I will get there eventually hehe.

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Ok I used to do this for a living.

No comment on if they are painted over with clear coat (good luck). Yes a hair dryer lightly to pull newer ones off but if they keep breaking, and the older they are the smaller the bits they will break into, you need a blade. you can usually get a pack of different blades from a $2 shop or a hardware shop. You use them like a paint scraper.

You'll be left with bits of glue which you use prepsol to remove with a rag.

It's sort of easy and hard at the same time. Easy to do but easy to **** up. Just take it slow and you probably wont put a single nick in your paintwork, the only problem you'll have is that the paint underneath will be a little lighter in colour.

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OK this is really wierd. Same set of stickers on both sides of the car but one side there's topcoat on top of the damn stickers. I used the hairdryer method for all other stickers and they've all come off nicely, cheers guys. It's just three big stickers down one side that are under the clearcoat now.

NOW: IF I wanted to take these off what can I do? Get any old body shop to sand and then respray the entire rear 1/4 panel? How much would I be looking at for this? About $400?

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