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Removing vinyl lettering from a wrapped car
Hello
Two years ago I did three of these utes for a good customer.
The lettering is Oracal 751 applied over a 3M IJ180 with laminate.Now the customer wants the lettering on the doors removed, leaving the print intact, with another logo put in its place. They dont want to replace the whole door
wrap, as the whole fleet is being replaced in six months or so.I am very nervous about doing this without ruining the laminate below. The gloss laminate is quite soft, and 751 is very sticky.
Does anyone have any words of wisdom or shall I just say I cant do it?
Simon.
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It is very difficult not to ruin the laminate I’m afraid.
I’ve done it a couple of times, you have to peel the vinyl off slowly and without heat. Even then you might damage the lam a bit.
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(can you not just re-wrap the doors?) – edit (no you cant, you said)
If not if your handy with a brush you could paint the oracal letters with thinners (cellulose is best) this should wrinkle the vinyl and split it from the adhesive. then it should just be a question of cleaning off the adhesive. But the trick is not to let the thinner run onto the wrap.
In theory…
But test a bit first!!
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Update…
Thanks guys I did the first one…cold and slow, and managed to get most of it off without too much damage…I did make a couple of little holes in the laminate, but they cannot be seen from more than couple of steps away.
I made the customer sign a release first though.I decided against the thinners, Russell. Too much to go wrong too quickly!
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