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100amps' C3 repair/update project
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<blockquote data-quote="100Amps" data-source="post: 288604" data-attributes="member: 8438"><p>I spend some quality time with the heat gun on the weekend, peeling vinyl off the rear of the car. I was expecting the rear bumper to be plastic but it's fiberglass. Maybe that's as it should be, or maybe it's been replaced at some point. It needs some body work, it has some waviness along the deck seam. The paint on the body looks fine. The gray stuff in the photo is adhesive from the vinyl wrap. There's a square patch to the right of the gas cap that I scrubbed on with lacquer thinner and it comes off easy enough. It looks like there will be a lot to scrub off. There didn't seem to be any magic amount of applied heat that would let the adhesive peel off with the vinyl. I'm guessing it was cheap Amazon wrap. I wouldn't expect that from 3M, though I know nothing about wrap. </p><p></p><p>I'm disassembling all the pieces; lights, filler cover, emblems, and I'll take the bumper into the garage for some minor body work. It looks much worse than it really is in terms of condition and structural integrity.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]102823[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>The patch over the antenna hole is comical. Must have been a drywaller that mudded that up. It is a significant bump. Yes, that's a metal screen embedded in the bondo. It'll be fun to remove. ...yeah.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]102824[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>..Todd</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="100Amps, post: 288604, member: 8438"] I spend some quality time with the heat gun on the weekend, peeling vinyl off the rear of the car. I was expecting the rear bumper to be plastic but it's fiberglass. Maybe that's as it should be, or maybe it's been replaced at some point. It needs some body work, it has some waviness along the deck seam. The paint on the body looks fine. The gray stuff in the photo is adhesive from the vinyl wrap. There's a square patch to the right of the gas cap that I scrubbed on with lacquer thinner and it comes off easy enough. It looks like there will be a lot to scrub off. There didn't seem to be any magic amount of applied heat that would let the adhesive peel off with the vinyl. I'm guessing it was cheap Amazon wrap. I wouldn't expect that from 3M, though I know nothing about wrap. I'm disassembling all the pieces; lights, filler cover, emblems, and I'll take the bumper into the garage for some minor body work. It looks much worse than it really is in terms of condition and structural integrity. [ATTACH type="full"]102823[/ATTACH] The patch over the antenna hole is comical. Must have been a drywaller that mudded that up. It is a significant bump. Yes, that's a metal screen embedded in the bondo. It'll be fun to remove. ...yeah. [ATTACH type="full"]102824[/ATTACH] ..Todd [/QUOTE]
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