Taping "trim" before detail, what exactly is it?

My short answer is anything you don't want wax on. If you're looking at high speed with a rotary, then you also looking at sharper edges where the paint will be thin.
 
I tend to do it especially on card with unpainted trim, such as Jeeps. There's so many inside right angles on my friend's jeep it's easier to take 20 minutes to tape it off than it is to be 100% sure I don't touch it with the rotary.
 
PC'd this one...

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Rotaried this...

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I used to tape the trim on my vehicle; up until my UDM got to close to the tape and pulled it off along with the sticky residue gumming up the polish...



I find the polish on my trim has no determental qualities (alot easier to remove versus the sticky residue); but I will still tape other people's vehicle just to insure their trim doesn't get damaged.



I also use Canadian Tire 3M automotive paint tape; so maybe that is the issue too?
 
Asad_A203 said:
I used to tape the trim on my vehicle..[but now]..

I find the polish on my trim has no determental qualities ...but I will still tape other people's vehicle just to insure their trim doesn't get damaged.



I also use Canadian Tire 3M automotive paint tape; so maybe that is the issue too?
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Yeah, the type of tape can make all the difference.



I seldom bother taping trim on my vehicles either unless I'm using the rotaries, but on the Audis I *ALWAYS* tape off the clear-anodized aluminum trim; it's just *so* fragile.
 
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