Contour Enthusiasts Group Archives Forums Modifications Aesthetics Just removed door ding guards and...

Where could I find this T Cut stuff at?

Yeah, same thing happend to me when I was debadging my car- a faint barely visable outline around where my badges used to be after I used "goof- off". I put it through the car wash, and its completely gone now (I'm lazy, and it was like 10 deg. outside when I took them off...NOT fun).

Damn guys I just did mine after 63,000 miles and not a mark on the doors! Did the side marker lights while I was at it. Sides look nice and clean now.

Jim

So when your removing door dings you just pull the plastic coating off them take a piece of dental floss to get that stuff off?

you use the dental floss to loosen up the door dings from the door...u gotta pick at the adhesive with something to get it off...that takes a while

Sounds like one more guy burned by a body shop not removing the ding strips when painting/blending . I'd love to remove mine , but 1) I'm sure some J/O will find a way to dent my car immediately after removal 2) With MY luck , the factory will have had to respray a door for some reason (before I bought it new) and I will be in the same boat . So my ding strips will stay on ...

where can I get this crap at?? i need to get rid of these damn racing stripes

Well I have been threating myself and my Mystique with taking mine off...So today I finally did it!

It turned out way better then I expected!! No strip, which I do have a '98.

Some things that I think not too many have mentioned before... I used a plastic puddy knife. Actually it is a paddle sort of thing. Anyway, it was really soft and cut through the foam easily without scratching the paint at all. All I had to do was insert the knife edge of the paddle in the lead edge of the ding gaurd, grasp each side of the paddle and slowly pull it to the oppisite end. To remove the excess foam and adhesive, all I had to do was run the knife edge of the padel in a downward motion while holding the edge at a 45 degree angle. Small short strokes and it just peeled right off! To get the residue and dirt line off - I first tried 100% Isopropyl Alcohol on a small area, then just the clay bar on another small area. Neither worked great alone, but the clay bar did work a bit better. I found that it was easy as silk to get off by first laying down a nice application of the alcohol, wipe off the excess and then apply the clay bar and it was just like claying the car. Whatever was left just lifted right off. Then after a nice buffing, I polished and waxed the area using my buffer. Of course I washed the area right after removal of the ding guard.

All and all, it took about 1 hour, maybe an hour and 15 minutes. Like I said, it looks way better then I thought it would! I really thought that it would just be one of those things that you would not really notice, but WoW!! When it is your own car it makes a world of difference in the apperence.