Removing painted pinstripes

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brwill2004

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I have a customer who wants some painted pinstripe designs removed from his Harley. I am thinking that the only way to remove them is to wetsand. Does anyone have some other suggestions besides wetsanding.

Thanks, Brad Will- Reflections Auto Salon
 
brwill2004 said:
I have a customer who wants some painted pinstripe designs removed from his Harley. I am thinking that the only way to remove them is to wetsand. Does anyone have some other suggestions besides wetsanding.

Thanks, Brad Will- Reflections Auto Salon
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Try polish or compound first. I have seen some stripes only come off with wet sanding and some come off with just polish. Depends on the paint and quality of the work and prep I think. Some are even done UNDER the clear and those won't be fun. LOL
 
AS 2001 said you need to check to see if they are under the clear coat. Try a little polish on the stripe and see if it comes off, a small amount should come off if its on top of the clear coat. However I would bet that its under the clear coat. Wet sanding will take it off but that will also ruin the finish on the clear and I'd have to say repaint might be in order at that point.
you do not want to remove any of the clear
 
According to the customer, the stripes are on top of the paint. The customer is going to repaint if he can not get the stripes off. They are a design that he really doesnt like.
 
brwill2004

If they are on top then it should come off. I would try a small area where you can't really see it. With some Laqauer thinner on a rag to see how easy they will come off. After which you shoud use some APC to clean each area that you clean then polsih back out to bring back the luster.

Polish will also take it off with some rubbing again only if they are on the surface. It might be after market stripping is why they are on top.
 
I removed some tasteless pinstriping around the trunk lock on a car I owned back in the 80's & all I used was some kind of white polish in a plastic tub, could have been a TurtleWax product but it did the job & did not mar the finish.

Probably through some RainDance or Mother's carnauba (this is the 80's, remember???) on it & you'd never know the awful pinstriping was there.
 
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