Removing those aweful stickers from the factory paint job:

Dive Bar Casanova

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I fear I may take the paint off removing the stickers from our new Momentum.
GD use to put the stickers in the inside of the slide-out, but now is plastering them on the paint job itself.

Any trick, any tips or tales to get these stickers off without damaging the paint?

Thank you for any help.
 
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I used a plastic razor blade to get an edge started and then just peeled them off. Cleaned up the residual glue with WD-40. Main thing is to get them off immediately, the longer they are on there, the harder they are to remove, and the more likely the paint will be slightly different shade due to fading.
 
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Going well. The torque wheel lug sticker pretty stubborn.
This is taking 3 years off my life span.
Why in the world does GD do this?
 
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The lug nut torque sticker may be important if it gives an actual torque number. Otherwise, it is just a CYA sticker. The dealer added several stock number stickers to our trailer, and I'm slowly peeling them off.
 
I think it may be like the RV parks that only accept clean, nice newer RV's. They don't get it.
They don't understand why a RV owner is concerned with low hanging tree branches that pin stripe the paint and poke holes in the roof, yet this is the RV owners mindset they cater to.

In 2017 we ordered a Heartland Toy Hauler and the stickers had to be removed by a body shop. They then ordered the special paint stencils and sweetened up the work. Heartland plastered massive brutal stickers.

No Heartland dealers around here anymore so we went with GD again noting the tragic issues with our last GD have been cured with the new rigs. Well most of them. still a few mulligans.
The saying "If we all put our problems in a pile then selected the problems we want to deal with, we'd pick the problems we put in the pile" Goes with buying a new Grand Design. We are familiar with dealing with it's issues, but there should be no issues.
 
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"We are familiar with dealing with it's issues, but there should be no issues." In an ideal world, yes. In the real world, no. As long as humans are involved in the manufacturing process, errors will occur. Remember the issues the American car manufacturers dealt with 50 years ago? Spark plugs that required engine removal to change or else making holes in the fender? Being able to see daylight around the closed door?

The RV industry is no different. People make them, and mostly by hand. Yes, there are machines that help, but go tour any factory and you will see people putting the rigs together. Some of those people are well rested, well trained, and focused on doing the best possible job. Some are hung over, have no training, and are there just for the paycheck. Most are somewhere between those extremes.

When we, as buyers, start demanding better quality AND ARE WILLING TO PAY FOR IT we will get it. As long as we're focused on the lowest price we'll get cheap junk.
 
Took all those stickers off and more this weekend on our new 30g. Used my trusty heat gun :)
 
Took all those stickers off and more this weekend on our new 30g. Used my trusty heat gun :)

X2 using a heat gun to soften the glue backing. Slowly work it off. Followed by WD-40. Did it right after delivery so the glue was not adhered very well yet.

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