Has anyone removed their GTS spoiler yet? I can't for the sake of it remove it after I get the screws off. The adhesive is extra strength gorilla glue+tape or something. I tried sticking a flathead in, but it just messed up the paint. Any ideas or solutions?
eek ! messed up the paint where.. on the spoluer or the trunk? I dont plan on removing mine.. it makes an otherwise unappealing rearend nice looking.. why are you trying to remove it, after-marlet wing?
All I see is two bolts that holds onto it. I dont want to use a hair dryer because I'm scared I might bake my paint. Haha. How about dental floss? I'm taking it off because I am kinda getting annoyed at the fact that I can't see clearly who's behind me. I might throw a trunk lip on it that's already ordered. We'll see.
yea that or fishing line.dental floss might be too weak to go through.unless you got a whole thing of floss :lol:
Heh, Here in New England, it seams almost every other vehicle on the road is a big ol' 4x4 pick-up or some other monstrosity. I like the wing cuase it blocks out the otherwise blinding lights from the high headlights, lol. If you put a lip on it, you must post pictures.. I would like to see how it looks cause my wife hates the wing for the same reasons as you... but then again, its my car and she can go take a long walk off a short peer for all Im concerned, lol
i debadged my friends SI for him with floss.it worked but i used alot.i wish i had fishing line at the time
I think the fishing line would have been faster and stood up better during the procedere.. but fishing line being as strong as it is, you might have damaged the paint.. whereas the dental floss would give before doing any real damage. Slow and sure is better then fast and risky any day :wink:
I spent 30 minutes myself trying to pry it off. Went through about 10 1 foot fishing lines.. GTS spoiler 1, tatsujo 0. 6.11pm, going back for round 2. Will be back in 30. EDIT: DONE! What a b*.. there was one of those plastic clip like on the doors that was embedded into the trunk.. didn't know and yanked that sucker out. hehe :whax: gts wing ( :crybaby: )
But why??? In the future if you need to get adhesive off and the heat gun method does not work, try some mineral oil. It will get in between the adhesive. Works great for bumper stickers as well.
Oh yeah, I finally got that sucker off. I ended up having to loop a fish line into fours to keep them from tearing or snapping apart. Everything looks good, anyone know where I can buy round white vinyl stickers? Wanna cover up these 6 holes.
Yuck! Take it to a body shop and get it done right. It'll probably set your back $250.00 or so, but that's better than covering the holes up with stickers. FWIF, the wing was one of the reasons I didn't get a GTS. Had it been a "delete" option I might have gone with the GTS.
do some body work and get the holes done correctly, vinyl decal is ghetto. Sand, bondo, sand, sand, primer, sand, sand, paint, sand, sand and clear coat.
I would do some body work, but have no clue how to start. I'm a teen, working part time with a measly job.. no money for a body work.. I might just cover it up for now.. waiting and see if anyone will come out with a cf trunk.
