nkgosselin

Spent 7 hours removing the two back stone guards around either wheel from my 951 today.

They were all cracked and looked like fish scales. Picked off the hard plastic shell then spent copious hours removing the glue.

I put a couple of tiny scratches in(f*%$), will touch up this week.

Anyone else ever do this miserable job?

Now to order new ones.

Lorax

I hurt my clearcoat doing it.. Its not really noticeable, except of course by me. Please use light chemicals. Learn from my mistakes.

David Floyd

Yep... sux ! I chose to not to install new stone guards and has been fine for 4 years.

I am now painting the entire car due to being rear ended and I will not put on stone guards

bjzorn

I removed them It took me about 90 minutes to do the car. I just used a heat gun and a plastic scaper and it turned out really well, no scratched paint, and no marks

Brandon

Techno Duck

I am in the process of removing the stone guards also. I did it exactly like Brandon did. I am taking them off a white car which has them colormatched to the paint. They come off in three layers it seems with the plastic scraper. The white top layer first, then the adhesive layer needs to be scraped off, then more adhesive, which can be removed with a rag and some acetone.

I am going to try the clear ones on my red car sometime in the next few days using the same method..these should come off in two layers i bet, just the clear vinyl then adhesive.

The only fear i have is the paint under the stone guards looking different from the paint around it, IE faded or discolored for some reason.

Lorax

Ive never heard about them coming color matched, I thought they were only clear.

bjzorn

They where orignally color match on the black and white cars from the factory now all you can get are the clear ones.

Jon, when my stone guard came of it wasn't that bad of a color difference you actually can't notice it until I point it out and only then is it really hard to catch. I will be waxing my car before heading east next week and hopefully it wll all look the same after.

Brandon

bleucamaro

I think they came clear, bleack, and white. . . . mine are the "ultra-rare" yellow

FRporscheman

A heat gun is essential. It melts that stuff to an easily scrapable goo, and a light amount of acetone loosens the glue. I used a thick metal putty knife... I was gentle, but I had plans to repaint the car (which is done now) so I didn't really care that much about scratches on the red 944. As it turned out, there were hardly any scratches, so I think metal putty knives are OK. A friend of mine used a plastic spatula with the heat gun and acetone on his white 968, and it did the same job but took a little longer.

nkgosselin

Seems everyone has shared in the pain.

Too bad you can't get black ones, it would look good on my car(beige metallic).

I did have some slight color difference under the decals.

ibkevin

Heat gun, plastic scrapers, a stripe eraser, and 45 min. Presto!

potent951turbo

This project is waiting for me on my alpine 951, however I have been putting it off for months.

jenket944

Let's see...I started this job about two years ago. Finished the driver's side...gave up on the passenger side. Looks like I need to buy a heat gun...I tried with a hair dryer, lighter fluid and a plastic scraper. Wasn't careful enough with the metal scraper on the driver's side and took off the clear coat in several areas.

AndyK

I used a heat gun, plastic putty scraper, and, the most important item--Sticker Shock bumper sticker remover. Nasty chemicals, but it really made mush out of the second layer of goo that seems impossible to remove at first!

Lorax

The way I damaged clearcoat on the driver's side: I used brake cleaner to get that second coat off - even with a plastic scraper it still took some off. I just ordered the spray on clearcoat from paintscratch.com well see how that turns out. If it looks bad then off to the body shop I go...