My car is a 95, and I didn't remove the strips until 2000. Man was that adhesive a pain. I held a rag against one end of the strip and poured hot water over it. After I held the hot rag there for a while, it just peeled the strip back with my hand and SLOWLY pulled the entire length of strip off the door. Then I methodicaly removed the adhesive with my thumb nails little by little.
A quick wax job on the doors after that and I was done. Total time........3.5 hours!! I love it though. It's like a totally different car to me now.
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95 Contour mtx V6
TH Fix/ Tru Rev Induction/ Leda Springs/ SHO shop front STB/ Dynomax Muffler/ Resonator removed/ Quaker State Synthetic Oil/ Removed Hood Liner/ Pioneer 8200 deck/ Debadgerized/ Kanueberized/ Richmond shift knob/ KKM pedals/ Lighted Moon Roof switch/ new cup holder/ Xenon "cool blue" headlights