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Postby BLACK V6 » Sat Jul 26, 2008 7:29 pm

I started to shave my emblems tonight and I got the rear TOYOTA off and the toyota symbol but they are leaving behinf this... stuff.... foamy glue stuff... and its really hard to get off and all that its doing is making me impatient. (I broke my TOYOTA emblem :evil: ) Could anyone give me any tips on shaving the emblems? Some pictures would be nice...
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Postby lilm » Sat Jul 26, 2008 7:31 pm

bumper sticker remover/goof off and patience you are taking 9 year old gule off there will be some residue and you will pull some of the paint off
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Postby dan99solara » Tue Jul 29, 2008 10:45 am

buy some goo gone
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Postby redgen1 » Tue Jul 29, 2008 12:27 pm

my entire process:
1. dental floss the emblems off
2. goo-off/carefully use thumbnail to remove old glue and misc crud
3. on a paper towel, griots garage fine machine polish to remove the lines of dirt left on there
4. after a lil rinse to ensure the polish was gone, throw some wax on there and buff it to a shine
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Postby DrLove » Tue Jul 29, 2008 1:28 pm

I shaved some of my emblems on my 99.

Use an hairdryer + GOO GONE

Never use "goo-off", it's way too powerfull and will remove your paint.
Goo-gone is safe for paint.
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Postby redgen1 » Tue Jul 29, 2008 6:08 pm

hah i only used a little of it and put a few drops on the foam stuff itself, never had a probelm, but it wasn't on there for a particularly long time mind you
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Postby SolaraMan7890 » Wed Jul 30, 2008 9:22 pm

i just used my fingernail? or something of that sort?? came out perfect. (for the residue) emblems i used i kitchen knife. lol.
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Postby Toy1mzfe » Wed Jul 30, 2008 11:55 pm

^^^^ i also used my finger nail and a heat gun.

HEated it up and rubbed it off with the finger.

As for the color difference, i used rubbing compound and wax.
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Postby BLACK V6 » Sat Aug 02, 2008 8:03 pm

RESULT:

I finished taking off the emblems today with the right tools. Here is what I did:

1-Took a heat gun and lightly heated up the emblems (low power)

2-Used a paint scraper and scraped off the hot emblems (careful not to scratch the paint)

3-Heated up the emblem glue leftover and used my fingernail and laquer thinner to scrape the rest of the glue off. (burnt finger lol :lol: )

4-Used a buffer and white compund first (buff for about 45 seconds using more compound halfway through)

5-Used a buffer and grey polish (buff for about 45 seconds using more polish halfway through)

6-Used spray 24K Gold Wax with a light buffing for about 20 seconds.

7-Look at your reflection! :D

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Postby Jakecallun20 » Sat Aug 02, 2008 8:10 pm

Nice Nice, it looks like my car!
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Postby SolaraMan7890 » Sun Aug 03, 2008 5:56 pm

i left the SOLARA on mine.
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Postby Solarizona » Sun Aug 03, 2008 6:04 pm

Ooh, nice and clean. Good job!
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Postby BLACK V6 » Sun Aug 03, 2008 6:21 pm

SolaraMan7890 wrote:i left the SOLARA on mine.


I did at first, then it started to bug me so I took it off... :lol:
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Postby SleeperSolara » Sun Aug 03, 2008 8:05 pm

Nice man. 8)
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Postby DrLove » Mon Aug 04, 2008 11:30 am

SolaraMan7890 wrote:i left the SOLARA on mine.


I did that too. Frst shaved all but after few days I felt too naked lol. So I bought brand new chrome "Solara" and "cowboy sign", before I had ugly peelling gold emblems. Make the car look like new again.
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