[Dark_Knight_335]

For me, I just learned mine today. Removing Lamin-X taillight film.

Items needed:
1) One bottle of Goo Gone
2) One whole roll of Bounty paper towels (the good kind, not that cheap shit)
3) One pair of vinyl dishwashing gloves
4) One small pair of tweezers
5) The patience of all the Patron Saints.

I thought I had it all figured out gents- I would simply peel up a corner GENTLY, and SLOWLY AND GENTLY peel the films off until they came off with no glue residue, much like my ghettotastic headlights a few months back.

No such luck friends... here is what unfolded, in a most slow, painful, backbreaking, horrifying fashion.

After 2 hours of rubbing and rubbing, and rubbing and rubbing (and sweating) and painstakingly plucking off the glue balls from the grooves where the taillights meet the body, I finally got about 98% of the glue off the taillights. I am sure the rest will come off in time (or when I next muster the strengh of 100 men to finish the job.)

Please do me a huge favor- if I ever so much as MENTION tinting out my headlights and / or taillights for myself or anyone else on the forum for that matter, I give you full permission to cock punch me as hard as is humanly possible

Anyone else have any "de-modding" horror stories to share?

[Krozi]

Should have heated them up with a blow dryer....

I don't remove my mods...they just keep piling on the car

[Dark_Knight_335]

Well hey, it's done eh?

Sweet ride btw man!

[Express]

headers.

[NFS13]

Originally Posted by Krozi

Should have heated them up with a blow dryer....

I don't remove my mods...they just keep piling on the car

+1, Heat as you pull and it comes up pretty easy!

[Krozi]

Originally Posted by SDeFranco1

Well hey, it's done eh?

Sweet ride btw man!

Haha yea I felt the same way when I removed the warning labels on my visors...did the second side with a blow dryer and it literally un-pealed itself.

Thanks man

[NiVeDh]

If I ever have to remove anything...

UUC DSSR - put up quite a struggle while installing, even with my small hands
Window trim vinyl - removed it once but took forever
Exhaust - this would be a major pain in the butt
Spoiler - removed it once and took a while to peel off all the 3M tape

Can't think of anything else at the moment.

[J. Dub]

So far, it's been my DCI's by CPE. Only because the couplers would not slide in. I ended up using a little tiny bit of astroglide to get them in.

[NightStalker]

Complete Headliner removal. Including sunroof cover

[bimmette]

Originally Posted by Krozi

Haha yea I felt the same way when I removed the warning labels on my visors...did the second side with a blow dryer and it literally un-pealed itself.

Thanks man

Yup, removing warning label on visor. I only did the driver side and then gave up before doing the passenger side haha.

And also removing the OEM side reflector. Ugh.

[Dark_Knight_335]

Originally Posted by bimmette

Yup, removing warning label on visor. I only did the driver side and then gave up before doing the passenger side haha.

And also removing the OEM side reflector. Ugh.

Y'all shouldn't be removing those visor labels. Here in the states it's jail time...and kills the resale value.

[Needbmwpartzz]

Baked some pine tree sap on my paint then tried to remove using ineffective methods the I discovered rubbing alcohol and even then it's a very tedious and methodical process to get it all off.
Scratched my clear coat to hell but should buff out with a proper paint correction.

[max]

Originally Posted by Needbmwpartzz

Baked some pine tree sap on my paint then tried to remove using ineffective methods the I discovered rubbing alcohol and even then it's a very tedious and methodical process to get it all off.
Scratched my clear coat to hell but should buff out with a proper paint correction.

Mineral spirits removes pine tree sap the best. Get mineral spirits at wally world or any home improvement store. A paper towel or rag, wet well with mineral spirits and some elbow grease and the pine sap is gone without any harm to clear coat as long as you get it off before it gets baked on.

[Ali-E90]

Performance spoiler, applied with 3M tape.

Removed with lots of heat, goo gone, compound, and even wet sanding, and the marks from residue adhesive are still there.

Compound and wet sanding done by a semi-pro with experience.

[J. Dub]

Originally Posted by Dark_Knight_335

Y'all shouldn't be removing those visor labels. Here in the states it's jail time...and kills the resale value.

hahaha ok buddy.

[Camman]

Originally Posted by Dark_Knight_335

Y'all shouldn't be removing those visor labels. Here in the states it's jail time...and kills the resale value.

Well on mine, they are literally falling off due to using the sun shade. I'll probably take the rest off because I'll have to replace them anyways at some point