I removed my painted pinstripes tonight

[casketcrewchick]

I found some info on the net saying that you could use easy off oven cleaner to remove painted pinstripes.

I bought some easy off after work today and made sure I shook it well before applying. i started to use masking tape to mask off the area but it started to fall off when when so i just took it off and applied ot right to the car with a sponge brush.

I let it sit for about 30 seconds or so and started to rub it off with a cotton towel (flipping often to a clean spot). only problem was, it kept on smearing onto the rest of the car from my cloth. LOL *must have gone through 4 towels*

Then after i got the pinstripe off I washed the area off with water and dried it. It didnt damage my paint in any way.

I am going to wash and wax the car tomorrow i believe...

Make sure you wear gloves if you do this cause that stuff burns.

car looks better now. No more red and black stripe.

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[97chevycamaro]

Good, I was never a fan of pin stripes.

[ May 19, 2004, 03:57 PM: Message edited by: Loochy88 ]

[smiley49]

Glad to see you got them off. Mine looks 100% better with them off, except I still have some glue residue I can't get off in a straight line down the whole car...

[Loochy88]

so the oven cleaner worked perfectly? there are no smudges or cloudyness to the paint? thats good to hear... i would have been hesitant to use that stuff

[BLLDOGG]

good job. it would have been hesitant too

[casketcrewchick]

nothing wrong with my paint at all!!!! *big grin*

Yea i was a little nervous at first but i sorta picked off a little part of my paint with my fingernail last weekend so i had to just go and finish the job and i wish i had used it in the first place.

I think maybe the zaino i had applied a few weeks ago protected it? Who knows... All i know is i wasnt going to let it sit for too long. hehehe

it looks great i gotta post some before and after pics.

[MrCoffee]

cars look so much better with out those stripes. I just had mine taken off while it was in the body shop getting my front bumper swaped.

[Ted]

Yea, probably because the clear of your paint can resist the over cleaner. And the base they painted the stripes with cannot. I don't understand why people paint stripes on to begin with. It makes life so much harder, especially when you have to repair a panel. Glad to hear you got them off though.

[Phat3800]

Good call man--NOTHING ruins the lines of a car worse--particularly an F-body--than pinstripes.... They're for suits--not cars....

[casketcrewchick]

Maybe the zaino i had done to it a few weeks ago had something to do with protecting the car?