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Tucker

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Had a few digs and in mine. Touched them up with GM Indigo Blue touch up paint from Auto Zone. Yea, up close you can see it's paint but get 6-feet away and it looks perfect. for what it's worth...
 
I'm in the process of replacing mine. Too many bad spots on mine to try to repair. I did think about the paint option and it does appear to be a good one. Glad it worked out so well.
 
Get back to us with how that flippin' job goes. If I had to replace my stripe, I know I'd screw it up. They say use lots of water and a drop of detergent in a spray bottle. Try putting it on dry and your screwed.
 
I'd buy the liquid expressly made for that purpose (as a matter of fact, I did buy the stuff when I redid my tapes). Why take a chance on screwing up a 25-30' long strip of not so inexpensive tape? Before you pull the old tape off, draw a line in pencil along one edge of each of the tapes. A lot of the pencil will still survive the cleaning of the old tape residue. After the new tape is on and dry, you can get rid of the rest of the pencil with some wax.
 
Your local Grady dealer parts dept. will sell various stripes by the foot. Cut out the damaged part of the stripe, clean the surface and replace with a new piece of the stripe. I just did it on my Grady and it seems like new again.
 
Wow, very cool. My truck is indigo blue, and I would have never guessed it was the same color at the Grady stripe. Go figure. In the sun can you tell the touch up paint is metallic?
 
Touch up is not metallic. For that matter I don't think they do touch up paint in metallic. Your truck's a Chevy right? It's a GM color.
 
Tucker said:
Touch up is not metallic. For that matter I don't think they do touch up paint in metallic. Your truck's a Chevy right? It's a GM color.
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Yep Chevy truck. The touch-up paint I have for it is metallic.
 
Why touch up, or replace the stripes at all? Take em off!
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I'd post pics of my boat to show her off, but forgot how.... :?

But click here and scroll down a bit, and there are pics of my "Naked Lady"
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