Diamond Shield removal

TechWriter wrote:
I'm putting a vinyl bra put over the whole front because (I'm sure you know) when you clean Diamond Shield it "clouds" easily and turns butt ugly.

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Plan on installing a bra on our Phaeton. Don't mind the snaps, beats a lousy looking front end with DS installed.

Did mine in 2010. Actually if you get some xylene and an old windex spray bottle you can get the adhesive to release easier by keeping it wet with xylene. I pulled mine off in big pieces and only used a scraper edge to lift just enough for me to grab another piece. REMEMBER, your clear coat is under the Diamond Shield and you don't want cut marks in it. Xylene will not harm the clearcoat. The spray bottle helps a lot to remove the adhesive. Just have a lot of patience and pull slowly so as not to pull the paint off especially near the edges where it seems the paint is its weakest.
Xylene will also make your hands very dry so if you can use a good pair of non pourous gloves that would help except that the Diamond Shield will stick to the gloves. I did it bare handed and eventually after months of using hand moisturizer they were OK. MH looks a lot nicer now without the Diamond Shield and the black mold.

nothing will work on this crap! It took us 2 whole days to remove ours on our 2004 Country Coach. You are doing it the only way possible unless you take it to a shop and have them remove it. We got 2 quotes about $1000 each with no guarantee that they wouldn't have to repaint the front of the coach after it was removed. Never would we have it put back on!

I have the Diamond Shield logo on my coach -- my coach is a 2007 Newmar. If anyone has advice on how to remove that stuff from my coach, I would appreciate hearing (reading) it. There is mold under the Diamond Shield....I contacted the company--their reply was that I could pay $1,000 for removal of their defective product from my coach and the installation of a wonderful brand new product on my coach -- I don't think so. I simply do not trust a company that puts out a defective product and refuses to stand behind their product.

I had my Diamond Shield film installed by Diamond Shield in 2006. DS claims on their website that they manufacture their own product. I tend to doubt it. I think it is either Llumar or 3M. Both have had mildew problems and both have claimed they had solved them when I bent over for it. I was aware of the problem when I had it installed. Mine started to fail in warranty, which I was told was five years. Their idea of standing behind their product was offering me free film if I paid $700 to have the old film removed.

My response was to tell them to pound sand and took it off myself. And I tell everyone with an RV about my experience. Often, twice.

Diamond Shield sucks.

I think what you guys are calling Diamond Shield is probably a 3M protective film. Diamond Shield is a fairly recent product - say 2009 or later. If you don't have the Diamond Shield logo under the passenger side mirror, you have a 3M film - and yes, the stuff is terrible. 3M actually makes removal products for this. You should be able to buy them at a NAPA store.

The problem I have with vinyl bras is drilling a hundred holes for the snaps.

The DS did actually protect the front paint. It looked new after I got it off. And it looked good for a few years until the mildew started growing.

I'm putting a vinyl bra put over the whole front because (I'm sure you know) when you clean Diamond Shield it "clouds" easily and turns butt ugly.

It was a nightmare. I went to a window tint shop and bought some tint removal tools.
On the bottom, I could get an edge started and sometimes peel off a square ft at a time. Other areas were quarter sized pieces. The top over the windshield was pure helll.
I still curse the day I had it installed.