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Old 06-16-2010 | 04:56 PM
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What cleans them? I have the 98-02 Trans Am Ram Air checkered flag decal kit on my car and its BAD...I don't know wether the heat has gotten to it or what....but what can I use to clean the strips?



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Old 06-16-2010 | 10:36 PM
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i just wash them the same as the car
Old 06-17-2010 | 09:57 AM
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Yeah I've always washed them as same as the car but this time that isn't working. I have scrubbed and scrubbed and isn't working.


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Old 06-17-2010 | 10:06 AM
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Wow, thats bad.

Looks like the heat got the front as that looks like the steel underframing of the hood.

You could try polishing it. I recently did a car with Silver Vinyl stripes and they were severly etched with water stains. I got them covered with Glaze and it took a lot out of it. But I hesitated ruining them with trying Products like SwirlX, or Meguiar's Ultimate Compound.

Since this is your car and after washing and claying, if its not coming out, then try Polish, worse comes to worse you gotta replace them.




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