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At first I was hesitant to use a propane torch too. A heat gun seems like a safer option. But I thought since my bed rails were terrible, and my truck is a real truck (meaning I'm always hauling and/or towing something), it wouldn't really matter if I messed them up a little bit. Plus I like experimenting, and I like fire, so I couldn't pass this up! Also, you can see that I took them off. I wouldn't dare take a torch near my paint!
If you want to do the bumper though you have to make sure to prep it right... If you step on it and it cracks the paint/ chips after while then you'll know you didn't do it right hah
this is how I feel. I'm sitting here at work just stunned that this works. The results are amazing!
I just painted my bed rail caps. My wiper cowl looks terrible though. May have to give this a shot
At first I was hesitant to use a propane torch too. A heat gun seems like a safer option. But I thought since my bed rails were terrible, and my truck is a real truck (meaning I'm always hauling and/or towing something), it wouldn't really matter if I messed them up a little bit. Plus I like experimenting, and I like fire, so I couldn't pass this up! Also, you can see that I took them off. I wouldn't dare take a torch near my paint!
They turned out great IMO. Don't worry about burning your paint, you shouldn't be holding the torch in one spot long enough to do that. I would be to affriad of breaking the bedrails upon removal.
And to squatlife, eveybody has there own opinion on what they think is right for their truck, I happen to like the stock trim (ex.. you like squatting, I think it looks stupid). But you are right, everthing has a shelf life, mine just happened to cost me 0$
They turned out great IMO. Don't worry about burning your paint, you shouldn't be holding the torch in one spot long enough to do that. I would be to affriad of breaking the bedrails upon removal.
And to squatlife, eveybody has there own opinion on what they think is right for their truck, I happen to like the stock trim (ex.. you like squatting, I think it looks stupid). But you are right, everthing has a shelf life, mine just happened to cost me 0$
Changing my username currently. At first I was into it when I joined F150forum and decided to stir the pot. Then it became a trend of kids with too much plasti-dip, bad cv angles, and overall chaos.
I've been hearing about this for years on the jeep forums, apparently works for up to a year. Using Back-To-Black immediately helps it last longer. The trim on my truck still looks OK but I need to do the fenders on my jeep. I plan to use my heat gun, will see how it works out.
Took a picture of my trim today 4 months after using the propane torch method and is still looking good. I have done nothing to he trim except washing my truck.
I painted my trim in Krylon Fusion black. It looked great for a while but looks bad again. I thought the paint would be a better long term solution, but it wasn't. Gonna have to hit them again. Looks like it looks ok for less then 2 years.
08-27-2015, 02:19 PM
Trim Restoration
stupid). But you are right, everthing has a shelf life, mine just happened to cost me 0$ 
