Diamond Sheild

There is no easy way. It takes a lot of patience and there are many ways. I did mine a few years ago by gently getting an edge and rolling my hand to pull. Pulling straight out may result in pulling paint too. I also used a solvent to help loosen the adhesive which does not want to let go. Just take you time and you can do it.......very slowly.

Not a fun job. My new Itasca had bubbles in the film and the dealer had a "special" trained person do the removal - he took a lot of paint with the film.

You could do a Google search on the subject. I read an article of a shop using a wallpaper steamer to remove it. Sounds like it came off fairly easy. Good luck.

cableguy574 wrote:
My diamond shield on my RV has to be removed anyone know a easy way

The easiest way is with a credit card :B You didn't say cheapest.

My 05 Itasca Horizon had that same defective product. I removed about 4 sq ft. myself, along with some paint. Local body shop removed the rest, along with some more paint. Total cost including the 4 colors of paint to match stripes as previous. $2,200. Coach now looks like new.

In the process now on our 05. Steamer and plastic razor blades followed by adhesive remover. So far no paint damage. It is a slow process.

Heat gun or hair dryer does wonder

First off, do you have Diamond Shield or do you have a 3M product? Diamond Shield will have a logo applied (usually below the passenger mirror). I'm not sure if the 3M will have anything telling you what it is. True Diamond Shield is much harder to remove than the 3M product. You might want to contact Diamond Shield for information on removal.

I think it was 3M product, I have removed 95% with just pulling the product very slowly. Now I have to remove the letters on the front of the rv. they put letters on after the shield was on. lost some the clear coat. I will add a coat of polish tomorrow & remove any glue left. Buy this Saturday I having a bra made & installed.

Here is a good write up from another forum. I have not yet tried it but plan to.Hope it helps:
How to remove 3M RV film easily
The 3M shield was installed in 2003 after a full body paint job. It looked good for 4 years and then started cracking thru out and brown mildew started appearing in the cracks. Note RV winters in Florida from November thru May each year. The scratches look look you scratched the film with a razor blade in all directions.

I have read all forum info on how to remove. I tried several without luck. Last week I bought a portable clothes steamer, a plastic scraper with 25 plastic razor blades from Amazon and a can of 3M adhesive remover ( which proved useless).

I learned by trial and error, that if you scraped horizontally with the scraper and applied steam directly in front of the blade you could slowly peel off a strip of the film two inches wide by 24 inches long. It would curl as you scraped until the curl blocked the steam. At no time did the film beak in the little pieces I heard so many people complain about. I peeled the film on the entire front of the RV before attempting the glue removal. Note the brown mildew spots stayed in the glue.

Next step I sprayed the 3M adhesive remover on the glue and let sit the required time. Then I used the scraper and blades to scrape the glue off and nothing came off. I waited longer and the same result..Off to Lowes several times for Goof Off, Acholol, Acetone and several other adhesive removers.. No luck with any of them, the glue would not soften. I then went to an automotive paint store and they swore by a product called Auto Tech Quick and Easy Adhesive Remover. They told me to spray on and wait a minimum of 7 to 8 minutes rather than the bottle warning of not longer than 2 minutes.They said 3 spray treatments were necessary.

The ist spary allowed for the scraper to easily remove one thin layer of glue. The second spray really softened the glue and the scraper could remove it down to the clear coat layer of paint but still a reside remained.
When you scraped the glue it rolled up on the edge of the scraper into a cocktail frank size and resembled a partially cooked and sticky marshmellow. Therefore the plastic blade needed wiping after each large buildup.

Last spray treatment was to spray the area (2 feet by 3 feet) and wipe a cloth on the paint finish to remove oll the residue. spraying while wiping worked best.

Final result was 3 six hour days of relative easy work in the required shade.
No paint or clear coat was damaged and the finish looks like the day it was painted by Creative Coach in Lakeland Florida.

The glue remover was made in Grants Pass in Oregon (1 800 545 8624) by Auto Tech. Cost was $29.00 per spray bottle and I used 2 bottles and should be available in specialy paint stores.


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