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Jay700 Enthusiast

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Hair dryer and fishing line. Very easy looks great don't be scarred just do it.

glcbn Enthusiast

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I think you'd be better off masking and painting it in place...

 

Agreed. Why would you want to take it off, if all you are doing is painting it??

bdbake01 Senior Enthusiast

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I'm with these guys. Super easy to take off, and you could only damage if you used, say, a chainsaw instead of your hands. But, why? If u take off, you'll just struggle with getting repositioned correctly? Just tape and spray. If it's plastidip...forget the tape and just spray!!

Jay700 Enthusiast

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Skip painting it. Either take the ugly thing off or get some vinal and put it on. Once your tired of one color tear it off and put a new color on.

chuckl1218 Senior Enthusiast

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Just another thought, if you don't want to mask/plastic dip it or wrap it, there are plenty of places that sell kits to remove the colored portion on both front and back and stick on a new color. Really depends upon what you're trying to end up with. Personally, I would think sticking it back on again would be more trouble than any of these other methods. And there are threads explaining how to do these options. Have fun!

dg14terrian Enthusiast

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I removed the big GMC and the sierra emblem couple days after I got mine. Since I work at a body shop, all I did was use a small plastic door panel remover tool to pry the emblem off the tailgate. Then used a air eraser to remove the glue and no holes any where just left all terrian in right corner. Looks clean.

 

Also added the chrome tailgate handle and painted to match.

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jeff816 Enthusiast

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Agreed. Why would you want to take it off, if all you are doing is painting it??

Becuase if it isn't a pain to remove, it would be significantly easier to remove and paint in my garage where it doesn't rain every afternoon and the wind is not blowing crap into the wet paint. Thats why

glcbn Enthusiast

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Becuase if it isn't a pain to remove, it would be significantly easier to remove and paint in my garage where it doesn't rain every afternoon and the wind is not blowing crap into the wet paint. Thats why

 

That explains it.

bdbake01 Senior Enthusiast

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Becuase if it isn't a pain to remove, it would be significantly easier to remove and paint in my garage where it doesn't rain every afternoon and the wind is not blowing crap into the wet paint. Thats why

Truck doesn't fit in the garage?

bdbake01 Senior Enthusiast

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Yes realy. I mean, no offense, but what use is a garage that doesn't hold the precious?

 

If you live in a subtropical climate with a small garage and there is no other way, ok pull it off and paint it. May point was that if you just want to paint the emblem, personally I would exhaust all options for leaving it on before I removed. My OCD would be WAY tweaked if I couldn't get it back on straight. And chances are you won't.

dg14terrian Enthusiast

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If you can't fit it in there, just take the tailgate off and mask it like that should fit then. Unhook both cables, unplug wire going under bed, open tailgate, lift up on right side the pull left and bam your good.

LTZTom Enthusiast

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Not necessarily bad info. The camaro has two holes the back emblem sits in. Many vehicles have two holes with two pegs on the back of the emblem that slide into the holes. Its for allignment and easy of application. I would also guess its probably an attempt to keep badging on vehicles.

It was bad info where the trucks are concerned. I didn't notice him mentioning Camaros in his initial post.

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