Cornish Aids
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Registered: 2nd May 11
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So I started removing my door strips today, got the strip off no problem, removed the adhesive without too much difficulty as well. But now I'm left with a strip of funny pale coloured paint, just wondering if anyone else had a similar issue and if so, how did they solve it?
I've tried intensive T-cutting / polishing with little to no success.
Bizarrely you can sort of see the paint through whatever this stuff is..
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Jamie-C
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Registered: 3rd Jun 08
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I've heard people saying before that sometimes it can be moisture underneath the paint and putting a heat gun on it can solve it. Just don't go mad as you could burn the paint.
If that's unsuccessful then the only way is to get it painted unfortunately 
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Phillips_91
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Heatgun  worked a treat for me, only needs a coupld of seconds
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Piér
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Its condensation strangely!  happened with mine, like said, use a heat gun but be careful and don't hold it in one place for to long as it will melt the paint! Then you will be in for a re-spray
Mine took longer than a few seconds but it was fine after 
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Kieran
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Post up results after please
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tomo2k9
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I've got the same on pasenger side, had loads of people sayin use a heat gun , so I mite give it a try, bt u can try it first mate and show us the results lol
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Cornish Aids
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That's a relief! I was contemplating putting it back on
I'm just about to sit down to dinner but I'll go back out and have a go with the heatgun straight after, will post pics of the results too. Thanks guys.
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Cornish Aids
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Just went out with the heatgun and had a go at clearing this streak up and it was a great success. 30 seconds of waggling and the line disappeared!
Took off the rear quarters trim as well which had the same thing under it but armed with my heatgun I took that on no problem.
Here's how she's looking now:
Still can't decide whether I like what I've done though
Any suggestions for the rectangles where my badges were?
Cheers for the help
[Edited on 04-05-2011 by Cornish Aids]
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dean101287
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Registered: 22nd Jul 07
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T-cut or machine polish?
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Root
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Btw park your park on the opposite side of the car park from now on 'cus you'll get dings, mind you, even when you park your car out the way, people purposely park next to you, it's boring, women tbh
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Piér
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Still need to go over them with the heatgun a little bit mate and for where the badges were T-cut or Auto Glym colour restorer.
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Jed D
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Registered: 15th Mar 11
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i had a star silver envoy that had a batterd in door, got the door for £5 on ebay (smae colour) removed the bump stip and had this problem. decided it wasnt that bad compared to the rest of the car but gave it a really good poslish anyway, sorted the problem out good enough for what it was
get that dropped pal
[Edited on 04-05-2011 by JedDy]
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Jamie-C
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Good job  , looks like you need to go over the door again though.
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Cornish Aids
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Yeah, you're right, I had another go over and got rid of the last bits.
Lowering is in the works, with these wheels and tires especially it looks really high haha
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tomo2k9
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Just done mine , I used a hairdryer lol took me like an hour bt didn't trust myself puting a heat gun to my paint lol bt well chuffed with the results
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Martin W
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Registered: 10th Aug 09
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looks exactly like mine did on my silver one. ended up putting them back on
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