messham11
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Taking the rubstrips off my car in the next few days and been told a toffee wheel is the best way to remove the glue. Just wondered how do I go about using it. ie what speed to use it etc
Any help much appreciated! 
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James_H
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Fast as poss 
Where in berks are you?
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BarnshaW
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take off the strips, remove the remaining glue with petrol or hot water, u need alot of elbow grease
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messham11
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quote:
Originally posted by jahunt
Fast as poss
Where in berks are you?
Burnham mate. Didnt want to go too fast incase it burns the paintwork or something
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James_H
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I live in maidenhead, so i could come down and give you a hand 
do you have a toffee wheel?
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messham11
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Yea I have mate, brother bought one a while ago and never used it. Its for my Golf MK5, got to take them off defo just unsure whether to have none or then replace them with colour-coded jobbies!
You used one before then?
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James_H
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What colour car do you have?
In my garage my old corsa has them colour coded and the other corsa has none, imo they both look good.
Yeh i done it myself on both of my corsa's!
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messham11
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Steel Grey
Just worried about car parks and some idiot letting their door fly! Will see when they're off.
Coolio! When are you free buddy?? 
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James_H
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Yeh someone did that to me when mine was colour coded 
Well busy this weekend but whenever in the week. If you wanna do it yourself you can, i was scared to do it at 1st cus i thought if i leave it the long enough it would burn through the paint
Just take them off, put the wheel in the drill, put it on full power, put at 45 degree angle and start twirling away and keep moving it, then after just was it off see if you missed anything, and then polish it, job done!!
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messham11
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Yea busy this weekend too. I might give it ago then, anything goes wrong i'll blame you
How long does it take roughly?
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James_H
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it wont, just make sure you keep moving it, but after 5 mins you will get the hang of it.
How long does what take? the whole thing? i would give it about an hour to get it all off inc polishing.
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messham11
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Yea to roughly do a whole car?! I'd take an hour, not bad at all!
May try and fit it in tomorrow, that way if I cant master it i'll shout you in the week!
Any good with changing springs/shocks??
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James_H
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yeh sure just send me a u2u.
Yeh can do, just need a spring compresser, which i can get
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messham11
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Awesome!! Wanted to order some this week but being the most indecisive! Unsure whether to just get springs, or shocks/springs or all out and get coilovers! Only thing being I use a country roads for work.
Decisions decisions! Will give you a shout either way then!!
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