How do I remove the badges (sliverado, 1500, ect.) without scratching the paint or geting any dents? And how would I remove the huge fender panels along the doors (I don't know what they're called)?

 

You can use fishing string to cut the glue behind the emblems or just use a plastic putty knife, just be careful. To get the glue off, you'll need some adhesive remover or an eraser wheel will work. They sell the eraser wheels at any auto paint supply place for use on a drill. You might get lucky and the glue just comes off by rolling it up with your hand.

 

I heated mine with like a hair dryer and i also did it in the middle of summer so it was like 102 degrees. Its not hard to get the modling off it is the adhisive thats a b**** to get off. I just heated it, and spent like 4 hours of rolling it with my fingers. Don't do it and think you can do it in like a few hours. I did mine in two days, but it looked great 2 days and like 10 blisters later.

 

Honestly the best way, but the most torturous is to heat them up with a heat gun or hair dryer. Then pull them off trying to get as much tape to come up with it. Then use your fingers to "roll" up the left over tape. Finally, get some goo be gone and get rid of the sticky residue.

Painfull on the fingers, easiest on the paint.

 

That's the high-tech process I used also. It works. I used a plastic kitchen spatula along with the heat gun and that worked very well but there was still a lot of sticky glue residue to get off. Rolling it up with the fingers was painful and slow but it worked without any damage to the finish. I used PVC pipe cleaner or PPG #440 grease and wax remover to get off the rest of the goo. These worked the best of all the chemicals I had in my collection.

 

i had blisters for 3 days after doing mine!

 

I removed the side molding by just grabbing a corner and pulling it off. The tape rubbed right off. Spent $8 on 3M Adhesive Remover and didnt need it.

 

you must have done it when the truck was brand new...lucky. the fishing string method didn't work good for me at all. it didn't work. it was easier to just get a corner up and start pulling. i used a pressure washer at a 45* angle to blast off the thick stuff and gasoline/fingers to rub off the thin film of tape.

 

I did it when the truck was new and used the pressure washer at a local car wash, it was hot that day so the metal was hot and the water was hot too, they almost fell off when I really got the nozzle in close. The toughest one for me to get off is the Chevrolet emblem on the tailgate, broke it in twenty pieces, PITA!!!

Good luck

 

Thanks for the replys.