b pillar vinyl removal

[brett at ataxxia.com (Brett Van Sprewenburg)]

It gets rather stiff and brittle when it's this old.  I heated with a  
heat gun or hair dryer (don't remember which at this point) and then  
scraped with a plastic putty knife.  Some of the tougher parts I  
think I used a flat bladed razor, but carefully of course.  The thing  
that surprised me was how much of the vinyl was under the rubber  
window molding.  Years after scraping it off, I would still get  
pieces of it wandering out and sticking up from under the window  
molding.
Removing this was nasty business.  I probably used a variety of  
chemicals hoping to loosen it, I don't think any of them worked very  
well - especially considering I was trying hard not to have them run  
down the paint on the side of the car.


The part on the door I think I left alone.  I masked it all off then  
repainted a flat black (so it was consistent), after the paint dried,  
I misted it with overspray to give it some of the vinyl like texture  
back.

==Brett

On Jun 14, 2007, at 10:32 AM, Breandan Mcilwain wrote:

> can anyone recommend a way of removing the old vinyl from the b  
> pillars?
> mine is in rather sad shape and i would like to get this stuff off  
> in a non
> intrusive manner.  i dont want to mess up the paint underneath the  
> paint
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