i am wanting to redo my pinstriping. how do i remove the old pinstriping without messing up the paint?
You can try a plastic ser and carefully applied heat from a heat gun, be sure to check that none of the pinstripe has been painted up to, i've seen cars where lazy/cheap body men mask the pin stripe then paint :rolleyes:
In the body shop I used to work in we used an air powered angle grinder with a rubber wheel that looked like a paddle tire on it, took off the pin stripe without messing up the paint (as long as you were careful)
the method I used on my old car was with a can of air held upside down. Spray an end of the pistripe with the can of air held upside down to freeze it, and you can use a razor blade to pull the end up. From there just freeze short sections of the stripe with the air and pull the pinstripe up carefully so you dont tear it. Otherwise you have to use the razor again to get another edge. It leaves some of the glue residue on the car, but you can use naptha to clean that off.
OK...if you have the factory pinstriping it is painted on. There is a special rubber wheel that attaches to a cordless drill that is made to remove factory pinstriping. You can find that at auto paint shops for cheap. You *could* use lacquer thinner but that damages paint/clearcoat. As it is, factory striping eats into the clear slightly.
If you have aftermarket/tape striping, then a heat gun or blow dryer works.
i wouldn't doubt it was painted, it is fading out in spots.
exactly what i was going to say, that wheel works way better than the heat gun and razor, or plastic ser, or no heat and ser. iv tried all of em lol, i hate pin stripes lol.