Bump Strip Removal ?
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Melting Slicks
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Bump Strip Removal ?
My Brother is about to paint his C4 and needs to know how to remove the "Bump Strip" that goes all the way around the car.
Do we have any body shop people here that knows this answer off the top of their heads?
Do we have any body shop people here that knows this answer off the top of their heads?
Le Mans Master
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From: Hellinois
Finalist 2020 C4 of the Year - Modified
Not a body man but I have just done this on my own car. The door strip is the only easy one to do, it has a nut at the front and rear of the door and the rest are clips. All the other's have small nuts on studs holding them on. These lovely little things are rusted solid and when you try to turn them you ruin the metal straps the studs are attached to. You get your Dremel tool with the small cutoff wheels and cut the nuts without ruining the studs, this usually means a cut on each side of the stud. Get ready to use a whole mess of the cutoff wheels and wear eye protection, when they break they're like shrapnel. No fun but necessary for a good looking paint job. BTW the only way to get the front and rear bumper strips off is by removing the bumpers.
