Tools you will need (if you want you can use tweezers to help get the vinyl out of the creeks)

You should start to pick up the vinyl with the razor blade but be so gentle so u dont scratch your whip (car) then slowly start to pull on it with a slow tough pull. You will have something that looks like this you will notice that the vinyl wraps around inside the door jams.


As you keep going you will notice that the vinyl is all the way in the weather stripping this is the hard part because u have to use the end of ur razor to peel it. But do this very gently we dont want scratches. as you keep going it should look like this

Keep peeling it off then you will get to the bottom which is tricky to get the vinyl out because its inside the door jam. The best way to do this is make sure u have vinyl that isnt ripped off that you can use to pull on so you dont have to worry about not being able to grab it (using tweezers will help here)
With all the vinyl off then u should spray some goo gone on the paint now and let it set for 45 seconds and then take a paper towel and take all that goo gone and she should look like this.



Hopefully this how to helped you out your fingers will most likely hurt when ur done but i love the way it looks if its not ur cup o tea then kool. Me and CSS.NET are not responsible for you scratching your car. REMEMBER GO LIGHT WITH THAT RAZOR!

 

cool nice how to. This looks good on color cars, I have a black ss but if i had any other color i would do this +rep

 

That looks bad ass on the yellow 'balts

 

u live on a farm?

 

Nice how too! I personally think it looks better with the black on it though. Or maybe CF.

 

lookin' good

i love that color! that and yellow anyway. the dealership i went through didn't have either at the time but red is just as nice.

 

looks good + rep good idea

 

Wow, I have no clue why you guys would like that.

The black is on there to keep the flow of the windows and the body line. you just ruined the side view IMO.

 

I agree.

But hey +1 for a good How to...

 

reminds me of an RX-8 when you take that off..kinda like it doesn't flow
but to each his own!
plus rep for makin a how to for the black balts

 

yes i live on a farm and thanks guys i just thought since i saw more and more people doing it i would make a how to!

 

HAHAHA i knew it... i cant believe we met like 3 or 4 years ago on live and both ended up getting balts

 

incase anyone wants to see it on a blue car

 

OK, looks good on blue also. I would do this if I didn't have a black 'balt

 

i like it

 

i just did it on my orange and i like it, was able to peel it off by hand, it gives the car a higher end look, some of the new lines resemble a BMW's

 

i would do it on the black... I hate the way that the oil in your fingers makes finger prints on the vinyl.... but since i have orange i like the consistent flow through the side

 

it ruins nothing
what ruins it is when it starts bubbbling and peeling on its own....
it looks 100 percent better imo and it beats the fact that i dont have cheap pointless vinyl on my doors.




also, if you end up needing to rip of the pain in ass lil pieces that are left behind on the bottom, there is a bolt you can loosen from inside the door, the liner comes right off practically so you can ensure you get all the vinyl off that was hard to get to at the bottom

 

Addition to HOW-TO:

Roll window down and pull window run (rubber piece) out of the way. (it is also wrapped in behind that)

Then take the phillips screw that holds the Belt moulding out (just inside door jamb -on door) and pull the moulding up out of your way to get the vinyl that is left behind it.

 

does anyone have it done to a red balt? i like the look it gives but afraid i wont like it when its done

 

I prefer the vinyl on... finger smudges on paint ftmfl

 

lol it don really matter to me im a mechanic/detailer at my work so i have access to everything at toyota to work on my chevy haha

 

i def like the way that looks... Good pics man!!!! What Tint % do u have?

 

i need pics of a blue balt with it off

 

I might do this to mine even though it's black. I can't stand the dirty-ass passenger door. I swear people just rub grease on it. At least with paint you can get it off. It might be a PITA, but it can be done