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The Rusty Gear
08-23-2007, 07:15 AM
I managed to put a good dent in my drivers side front fender, right behind the mudflap. I'm pretty sure I could try brute force pulling and eventually get the fender cladding off, but being a new vehicle, what is the proper "finesse" way of removing the caldding?

Should be able to pop it back into something close to it's original shape!

Along similar lines, I put a pretty good gouge in the plastic cladding at the bottom of the rear drivers side door (not sure if sliders would have prevented it). Being plastic, I would have assumed gouges wouldn't show as much as they did. It almost looks like the plastic is painted and the scratch went through the paint. Are the painted? I'm looking for a way to reduce to the appearance of my Rocky Mountain Pinstriping.

Tucson T4R
08-24-2007, 09:12 AM
Good question. I have beaten the paint off my plastic clading in multiple places. I would like to know how to remove and re-install the plastic clading as well. I have seen some Cruiser guys paint theirs with a tough bed linning type coating. I'm considering doing that to my 4Runner's clading. It wouldn't be mall cruising pretty anymore but I think I have already gone way beyound that option. :D

Cruiserhead
08-24-2007, 12:51 PM
It is easy to remove- you just pull it off! :D

it is an expensive proposition, the clips that hold it on WILL break off and replacements are expensive.

http://www.toyota120.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1875

Tucson T4R
08-24-2007, 01:01 PM
It is easy to remove- you just pull it off! :D

it is an expensive proposition, the clips that hold it on WILL break off and replacements are expensive.

http://www.toyota120.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1875

Thats what I was looking for! Thanks.