kuckle1

I was bored so I thought I'd debadge my tl I had read the diy a few weeks ago but took awhile to actually do it, stupid me I didn't take anything look before I started today, I took the badges off but don't have goo gone or any substance listed in the diy but I used rubbing alcohol on the 'A' my question is, will rubbing alcohol ruin the paint ? It worked really good, I just don't want to continue if it's gonna ruin the paint

kuckle1

Bleep bah bloop

peewizzle

i used a heat gun to heat up the badges and then fishing line to floss them out.

with the adhesive, all i had was rubbing alcohol and that worked fine for me. i overloaded my rag with it too and my paint turned out fine...i did wait a few minutes for the trunk to cool first tho since i did use a heat gun

kuckle1

Thanks I appreciate it

dreem1er

iTrader: (2)

alcohol won't do much to anything its not really an abrassive liquid, you can use it on alot of surfaces and not worry about it.

you will probably have a bigger issuse with the emblems ghosted/burned into the paint from being on for so many years.

kuckle1

Yeah that's exactly what happened, any advice on getting rid of that

chuckton

I wouldn't think alcohol would do to much damage to the paint if any. Worse case scenario may dull the clear coat. As for the burn in maybe try a light compound then wax, wet sand with high grit then compound and wax as last resort.

dreem1er

iTrader: (2)

a good professional buff would help the burn

cmlteg

i just took mine off to, used a bit of alcohol no problem

Ruyguy331

i had the acura letters deeply engraved after i removed em, it looked really bad. had it buffed out and now you cant tell at all. best part was i was body work done to my front end so he said he could buff the trunk for free

kuckle1

That's legit !