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Old 10-28-09, 09:49   #1 (permalink)
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Exclamation How to polish around A LOT of vinyl graphics?

I'm curious how should one go about buffing the paint of a race car that is covered in a lot of vinyl stickers, sponsor logos and lettering/graphics? None of which can be removed
Slow setting on a D/A???
Hand polish?
just say no!?!?!?
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Re: How to polish around A LOT of vinyl graphics?

Post some pictures of said car, but I would just tape the edges of all the vinyl and go to town.
 
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Old 10-28-09, 10:05   #3 (permalink)
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Re: How to polish around A LOT of vinyl graphics?

My car has a ton of black vinyl stickers on it (check out pics of the "superbee" package on Dodge's web site, etc), and the only way to keep from inadvertently polishing or waxing them is to tape them off. It takes a while to do it, but while you're polishing or waxing, you'll run into the tape a few times and think, "wow, I'm glad I took ten minutes to tape those stickers off".
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Re: How to polish around A LOT of vinyl graphics?

post some pics if possible otherwise as stated before tape off the stickers as much as possible. It sounds as if there is a ton of stickers and if my visual is correct it might almost be better to do it by hand if there is that much graphics on it.
 
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Re: How to polish around A LOT of vinyl graphics?

here are a few of them that I could find.



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