80s crap styling

[slowLux]

how do i get rid of the crap down the sides? and no i dont have access to a hairdryer!



thanks

[jimbo jones]

a hair dryer or heat gun it the best wat with some prepsole and elbow grease
jimbo

[slowLux]

another thing, underneat will obviously be whiter than the rest, how do i even out the tone. Heavy duty buffing and waxing?

[mud4b]

heatgun is best but also give teatree oil a go... soak it in and it just peels off by hand.

[slowLux]

heatgun is best but also give teatree oil a go... soak it in and it just peels off by hand.

indeed.

Where can i get that from, supermarket? how much will be needed?

[A1]

Go to your nearest Car Panel / Paint consumable seller and ask for a caramel wheels ...they use them to remove stubourn stickers etc

In short its a rubber type wheel that has a shaft moulded into it which you just put into a drill or die grinder .....still need to be carefull not to get the paint to hot but they work awesome the reason they are called caramel wheels as when used they smell like caramel

I used 1 to remove all these on the doors



from above to this below (not the best pic but they all came off and with a light polish all the marks were gone .)

[75 cruser]

just use a grinder

[beavis]

I used 1 to remove all these on the doors



from above to this below (not the best pic but they all came off and with a light polish all the marks were gone .)

how long did you have to soak the vitara to dissolve its arse?

[A1]

Not long @ ALL the SAWZELL soaked straight in

[mud4b]

heatgun is best but also give teatree oil a go... soak it in and it just peels off by hand.

indeed.

Where can i get that from, supermarket? how much will be needed?

yeah man anywhere...

[mud4b]

Go to your nearest Car Panel / Paint consumable seller and ask for a caramel wheels ...they use them to remove stubourn stickers etc

In short its a rubber type wheel that has a shaft moulded into it which you just put into a drill or die grinder .....still need to be carefull not to get the paint to hot but they work awesome the reason they are called caramel wheels as when used they smell like caramel

I used 1 to remove all these on the doors



from above to this below (not the best pic but they all came off and with a light polish all the marks were gone .)

this works so much quicker... but as said dont heat the paint up too much...dont push too hard either.

[chimpboy]

I would just live with them personally, they probably don't bother anyone except you!

[slowLux]

yeh, ive lived with them for about a year. I dont mind it really, just makes the car look really old i reckon, would look a whole lot brighter without it

[slowLux]

heres a quick dodgy photoshop comparison of what it looks like without it

[chimpboy]

Your real looks problem is that your tyres are too small

[Highway-Star]

What looks 'off' to me is the rear wheel arch. Its only half blacked out, do the whole thing or none.

I like things that break up the monotoney of a single coloured car, and to me the photoshopped picture looks too plain. That said the existing sticker is pretty 'average'.

I think I read somewhere (in a Holden book about commodores I think) that metho should disolve the sticky stuff. However this was specific to Holden. It did work when we pulled some stuff off of dads lux when we stripped it; you wanna see bad 80's styling that bloody hilux had the saddest flames in history on it.

[slowLux]

the rear wheel arch, thats how it came out from the factory. Or do you mean the flare?

I thought metho did bad stuff to your paintwork?

I'd rather have it like it is in the photoshopped picture, than have the gay crap down the sides, reminds of those american cars that had the wood boards down the side!

thankls for all the replies by the way

[slowLux]

The other option was to take off all the thin stripes back to the solid gray arch bit that has the "4wd" in it and leave the rest back from there, and also leave the top red line to where it is

[Ezookiel]

I know you don't have access to a hair dryer, but then if you have a supermarket to buy the other stuff you'd need, then they sell some pretty cheap junk hairdryers that will do for a one off job.
Hairdryer, and then some goo-remover, did the job for both my Zook, and a mate's Zook. Hardest part was getting the edges up with a razor blade without damaging the paint. Probably better options around for that - such as the caramel wheel mentioned - than the razor blade we used very carefully.

I'm not a fan of large expanses of white, so I tend to agree that in the photshopped version it does look a bit too plain.
I wanted some custom made decal for the front bonnet on my zook because it was too much of a "blank canvas" with all that white and nothing to break it up, but ended up selling it before I got the chance, and I used a bonnet scoops, and a set of tally stickers for the doors, to break the monontony on the Troll. Though it's a two tone, so not quite so bad anyway.

Good luck with it. She's a nice lookin truck.

[Highway-Star]

the rear wheel arch, thats how it came out from the factory. Or do you mean the flare?

I thought metho did bad stuff to your paintwork?

I'd rather have it like it is in the photoshopped picture, than have the . crap down the sides, reminds of those american cars that had the wood boards down the side!

thankls for all the replies by the way

Yeah the wheel arch, it does look standard (the sticker probably is too), but I think it looks dicky. It probably does serve the function of protecting the rear wheel arch from stone chips though (looks plastic). I just like white when it is contrasted with black, and I think going by the photoshop photo there needs to be more black. The black wheels are an excelent start though .

I wasn't aware of any effects from metho . Doesn't bother me when I took the stuff off dads lux, its getting re-sprayed eventually anyway.

Yep, I hate those american cars with the wood panelling too, believe me your Patrol looks no where near that bad!

[slowLux]

Yeah the wheel arch, it does look standard (the sticker probably is too), but I think it looks dicky. It probably does serve the function of protecting the rear wheel arch from stone chips though (looks plastic). I just like white when it is contrasted with black, and I think going by the photoshop photo there needs to be more black. The black wheels are an excelent start though .

I wasn't aware of any effects from metho . Doesn't bother me when I took the stuff off dads lux, its getting re-sprayed eventually anyway.

yeh, my plan is to have it all white and black. Tinted windows, black sliders etc I agree the whilte does need to be broken up a bit, but i think the decals on there are a bit much!

One the weeknd i might just get rid of the thin lines on the door back to the grey bit and see hopw that goes!

[slowLux]

I know you don't have access to a hair dryer, but then if you have a supermarket to buy the other stuff you'd need, then they sell some pretty cheap junk hairdryers that will do for a one off job.
Hairdryer, and then some goo-remover, did the job for both my Zook, and a mate's Zook. Hardest part was getting the edges up with a razor blade without damaging the paint. Probably better options around for that - such as the caramel wheel mentioned - than the razor blade we used very carefully.

I'm not a fan of large expanses of white, so I tend to agree that in the photshopped version it does look a bit too plain.
I wanted some custom made decal for the front bonnet on my zook because it was too much of a "blank canvas" with all that white and nothing to break it up, but ended up selling it before I got the chance, and I used a bonnet scoops, and a set of tally stickers for the doors, to break the monontony on the Troll. Though it's a two tone, so not quite so bad anyway.

Good luck with it. She's a nice lookin truck.

the decals arent that badly stick on, the thion stripes arent anyway. IUf i wanted to i could pull them all off with my fingernails!

So if i heated them up, then peeled it, theyd come off real easy?

As for the whole white thing, i think its broken up a bit by the black wheels, the flares and the rear wheel arch. You also cant see in the photo, but along the bottom of the doors theres black all the way from front to back wheel arch

Yes i like my little GQ, it's crtaintly changed a bit from when i first bought it!

[Ezookiel]

....So if i heated them up, then peeled it, theyd come off real easy?....

That's my understanding of it. They were a total pita on the zook until I read to heat them with a hairdryer, and bingo, they came off much much easier, and in much larger sheets. But that was the zook stickers. While I don't see it being much different with your ones.

[chimpboy]

Why would you buy a hair dryer instead of a cheap heat gun? You'll have a lot more uses for a heat gun in future.

[slowLux]

....So if i heated them up, then peeled it, theyd come off real easy?....

That's my understanding of it. They were a total pita on the zook until I read to heat them with a hairdryer, and bingo, they came off much much easier, and in much larger sheets. But that was the zook stickers. While I don't see it being much different with your ones.

thanks for the help

[slowLux]

Why would you buy a hair dryer instead of a cheap heat gun? You'll have a lot more uses for a heat gun in future.

how much is a cheap heat gun?

[chimpboy]

Why would you buy a hair dryer instead of a cheap heat gun? You'll have a lot more uses for a heat gun in future.

how much is a cheap heat gun?

Something like this would be thirty bucks or so; the usual suspects like supercheap, bunnings, maybe even the reject shop or crazy clarks/go-lo would have them for anywhere between 15 and 40 dollars I am sure.



I can't recall what I paid for mine but I know it would have had to be sub-$30 for me to bother. Much more heat than a hair dryer, for some reason chicks don't like drying their hair at temperatures that would roast meat.

[A1]

Those wheels cost like $12

[chimpboy]

Those wheels cost like $12

I'm not knocking the chocolate/toffee/vanilla/whatever wheels, just saying that a heat gun is a more useful purchase than a hair dryer!

[chimpboy]

This is the stock paintjob on a white swb maverick:



.... just since we're talking about breaking up the white.

I am pretty sure the black part of your rear wheel arch has been painted; I am sure they were always grey plastic originally.