Question on taking stripes off a car

[hollerstiltner]

Is that your daughter as your avatar? She is adorable!

Yes sir it is! Thank you! She's now the big sissy, I'm gonna have to update when I get a good pic of them together.

Depending on the color, and considering only 18 months of the stripes, it may end up looking almost unnoticeable after a few months. My son's 4Runner is a 99 and the first thing I did when we bought it was take a stripe wheel to it and pull all the old dried out stripes off of it. It's a silver metallic truck and was noticeable right off the bat back then which was 15 or so months ago. Now you can hardly see it. Still there, but you really need to be looking for it.

That's exactly what happened to me. Magnetic grey tacoma. Pulled the strip off and a faint line (maybe 1 shade) was certainly there. Now it's been a little while and it's not as bad. I think I removed them in early summer.

 

[tuscarora dave]

Hey tuscarora I see you have alot of experience but what I am getting at is a vehicle that is only a 1 1/2 old and O.E. paint and the pin strips has been removed, there's not going to be any yellowing and the paint (that has not been covered by the pin strips) shouldn't be that bad and very easily cleaned and polish to look like the paint that has been covered by the pin strips.

Clear that is yellowing is often repaint and to many coats and/or to heavily applied. Years back I used to powder coat and started applying the clears when they first come out. And every time I applied clear to heavy or to many coats, it would always cure up with a yellowing hue. And you can see this easily over a white pigmentation of automotive paint as well.

I have also been polishing paint, metal, and powder coating for years not saying I know every thing but have a understanding and alot of experimenting with techniques and different methods on various things and again just trying to help and not making this a hard question after all it's just paint.

Thanks tuscarora for your explanationrops: Appreciate it.

You're welcome.

Just trying to be objective and participate in the discussion.

One would think 1 1/2 year old base coat paint shouldn't fade under the clear, but I'm sure stranger things have happened. :dunno: