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went to clean my car on sunday and accidently knocked the passenger bump strip off the door! thats ok i thought ill just take the bloody lot off, so i did. only to find that the car had had a touch up job coz the frigging paint underneath is darker that the car!! in know paint fades and all that but they done a crap job coz they left runs in it

anyway it tppk me 2 hours to get about 15" of glue off the drivers door so now i got another 3' of glue to remove

lifes a b***h!

Lol, i had similar probs with my bumpstrips, exept i dint knock mine off, i meant to av em off, my drivers side ones were stuck down with the original 3m stuff, but on the rear quater panel you can see where its been resprayed but they dint remove the side strip, its soo obviouse, and then the passenger side, well that was a p*** take, cuz they had been taken off, and stuck back on with epoxy resin (superglue!) only way to brake that down is to use the chemical that is in nail polish remover, so i nicked my mums, and started carefully trying to break down the glue, at first not much was happening then all of a sudden my paint started to dissapear lol! so i now have a nice white patch on my quater panel!

to say i was p!ssed off wud be an understatement after spending about 3 hours on my hands n knees!

Jay

yeah, i did mine in bout 2n half to 3 hours and it was a bas***d! you cant tell tyhere is a difference in the paint unless you get really close, and not everywhere is a difference, only in some little patches. guess some are luckier than others with the paint, and the extent of damage done when taking the strips off, cus everyone has a little bit of damage, me, i just took a tiny little bit of paint with the paint gun!! Oops!

lol i also spent ages taking mine off my mk4 when i had it! only to sell it not long afters with a few tiny bits of glue left on as i couldn't be arsed anymore!

lol it took me like 2days 2 get the glue off mine i cudnt think wot 2 use at the time then a guy said 2 me use petrol, then it came off with about 30mins of hardcore elbo grease while lookin the idiot with bright yellow rubber gloves on

cheers dude's your miss-fortunes have made me feel alot better

lol gdgd