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Best Way To Take Off decals and Side Skirts

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SSSilverado23 Enthusiast

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I want to take off my 4x4 Stickers on the sides of my truck and the side skirt deals on the doors of the truck if thats possible without it looking like crap under them. Please tell me the best way to do these things. In the pic the side skirt things im talking about are the black and chrome looking pieces on the doors. Thanks!

 

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asc08 Enthusiast

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My driver's side door moldings were really faded and about to fall off, so I gave them a little pull and off they came. The double sided tape on those was all dried out, and a real bear to get off. Got a 3M eraser wheel, and that did the trick.

 

The passenger side were in great shape, but I used fishing line to get them started and pulled them off. The tape on that side was in good shape, and I was able to pull most of it off (very easy to do if you get it started and stretch it, rather than pull it away from the body).

 

The tan color of my truck was not noticeably faded after 6 years, clay bar and wax, made it look very good.

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SSSilverado23

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Keep the side trim, it'll save your doors lots of dings.

 

 

I didnt even thing about that! Hmmm idk what to do about the skirts now...

jdubub Senior Enthusiast

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If you take them off you may have paint blending issues. You can get all of the tape/glue off with no problem, but you may have bright red rectangles where the other paint has faded some.

blackout07 Senior Enthusiast

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I also want to do this, but scared I'll have a dark shadow. What do you do if it's crazy noticeable after removal?

 

 

You wont have that problem with your truck. Any mild hazing or discoloration will quickly disappear with a little polishing compound and a coat of wax.

cparks555 Senior Enthusiast

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I also want to do this, but scared I'll have a dark shadow. What do you do if it's crazy noticeable after removal?

 

 

You wont have that problem with your truck. Any mild hazing or discoloration will quickly disappear with a little polishing compound and a coat of wax.

 

 

Thanks man, I'm going to let a buddy of mine detail it once I have them off.

KMGZ400 Senior Enthusiast

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i took the trim off of my 2001 silverado last year and there was veryt minor not noticeable paint fade... they are easy to peel off but the sticky tape shit is a pain in the ass to get off. took me a lot of time to get all of the glue shit off. idk why GM put that horrid trim on the trucks.. it looks terrible. especially the trim on the 99-02 trucks

Jstalls2009 Enthusiast

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I had a body shop take everything off my 2009 Sierra, It definitely makes the truck look that much better and it's different than everyone else's.....

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