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LIAM HADDOW
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Registered: 4th Jan 12
Location: Sanquhar, Dumfries and Galloway
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1st May 12 at 17:51   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

took the bumpstrips off my silver corsa c and i was wondering whats best to take off the black gluey stuff off that was below them? cheers
Copie
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Registered: 13th Jun 11
Location: Scunthorpe
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1st May 12 at 17:53   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

heatgun/hairdryer
JaffaTB
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Registered: 7th Oct 09
Location: Sheffield, South Yorkshire
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1st May 12 at 18:29   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

as above but make sure not to get it too hot, i went along the strip getting it warm then rolled it off with my thumb
LIAM HADDOW
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Registered: 4th Jan 12
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1st May 12 at 19:23   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

cheers guys, will give that a shot tomorrow
Jed D
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Registered: 15th Mar 11
Location: Durham
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1st May 12 at 19:27   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

silver always leaves a awful greyish line down the side

i wanted to take mine off but after doing it on a previous silver B i thought against it... and i had a toffee wheel first time round... whizzes it rite off
Mark.W
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Registered: 3rd Jan 07
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1st May 12 at 19:57   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Auto glym tar remover is the dogs danglies for removing stuff like this
jay.jay
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Registered: 28th Dec 10
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2nd May 12 at 21:37   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

i bought one of those toffee wheel things other day and used it to take the glue off my silver b, took me like 10 mins to do one whole door, then just cleaned and waxed it and it came out perfect. makes it so much easier if you use one of them
Jed D
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2nd May 12 at 22:00   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

normally on silver ones theres a faded line rite down the side behind the door that doesn't polish up

 
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