Every. Decal. Peeling.

Let's assume you got all those nasty decals off there and have nice clean sides to look at - but with lots of ghosting from the old decals. Now what do you do?

Put on new decals? You are not supposed to ever wax over a decal. It causes them to age prematurely. Has anybody ever had any luck waxing an RV without getting wax all over the decals? Replacing decals seems pretty stupid to me.

So the fallback position is to have them painted back on. But that's real expensive. What to do? What to do?

Take a mess of pictures of your rig at a campground around other similar type trailers, get on the phone and call Thor Industries, get who ever is in charge on the blower, send them the pics of your rig in public with their competitors and remind them about how word of mouth can be very damaging bad press but to add physical display of their shotty product is even worse! Demand they send you a complete decal kit, go buy a bunch of 3M stripe removing wheels and a couple of cases of beer, invite a few buddies that own drills over for a de-decaling/BBQ bash and re-do the graphics then sell that P.O.S. and find a better rig! Life is too short to be stuck to an ugly trailer!

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all in this together

Cool gonna have to try it.

Ghost strips will disappear with 3M adhesive remover available at auto paint store and leave you with the perfect surface for re application.

I bought the cheap Harbor Freight heat gun that always goes on sale for $9.95 and removed mine on my old trailer using the low heat setting. Be careful not to get things too hot. Hair dryer will work too, but slower.

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Don't forget to call the GM van guy that delivers the barrel of Elbow Grease on the ad at the start of This Old House on PBS.

Use a low level heat, wife's hair dryer or a trip to the "Big Boys Toy Store" (Harbor Freight)for a low price variable heat range gun, plastic razor blades, and a long handle razor blade scraper. Then you will end up with ghost stripes and no peeling junk decals. Remember, the first ones were junk, so the second set would more than likely do the same thing. I stripped ours this past winter.

Using hair dryer, gently remove all decals and end up with a "clean" exterior. You might then go to a firm that does wraps and get prices on something you really want. This all assumes you want the other stuff gone.

Jim