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mb
Dodge Dakota
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5/17/2005
20:28:54
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 Subject: Someone Egged My Dakota
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Someone hit my 2002 Dakota SXT driver side with a raw egg over the weekend. I got the egg washed off, but the last "A" on the Dakota decal is now missing a piece.
Any one ever have to replace one before? I called a dealer and a new decal is pretty cheap. They want minimum $34 to replace it for me. And then he said something about maybe having to grind it off, if it won't come off easily! The $34 sounds reasonable. But having to maybe grind the old one off??? That sounds like major surgery.
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GTO/Kota
Dodge Dakota
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5/17/2005
22:08:43
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Grind off a decal? Never heard of that. I replaced the "Dodge" decal on my tailgate with a "Dakota" one. Granted, it takes some time to get the gunk off from the old decal, there is no grinding involved. I just used some "Goo-gone" and some good old elbow grease and had it off in about 10 minutes.
My guess is the dealer service rep you talked with has not done much work with decals or something.
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goatdak
Dodge Dakota
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5/17/2005
23:31:12
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mb, use a hair dryer to heat up the decal and a razor to scrape it off once it gets hot enough. i removed all my decals "99 sport" like this. use a solvent to remove the glue stuff. its easy.
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dakkid
Dodge Dakota
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5/18/2005
01:57:59
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i wouldn't take the dealers word too seriously about the grinding. you should be able to take it all off with what the above posters mentioned. if it were me i would just go without all the decals, it makes the truck look smoother in my opinion. i am personally fed up with dealers. mine seems intent on trying to rip me off. if i didn't know what i know they could've really torn into my wallet. just recently they told me my back passenger wheel was bent and it would cost $485 to replace. had it checked out by another place and it wasn't bent in the least, none were. but now i'm ranting, so just be careful about dealers' advice.
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Izzy
Dodge Dakota
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5/18/2005
10:40:08
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Why replace it? I'd take the rest off and polish that surface and leave it alone after that. I am playing with the idea of removing all my decals anyway. I know a guy who airbrushes and have thought about having him custom airbrush everything in place of the actual decals.
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RPRacing
Dodge Dakota
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5/21/2005
03:58:16
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MB, heres what we did when we needed to replace a letter in a vehicle decal when I built conversion vans.
Its just the last 'a' correct? Easy.
*Make sure the area the 'a' is cleaned compeletly.
*Get a replacement decal in the proper colour and cut off the STX part of teh decal.
*Use some low sticky clear scotch type tape and tape over the 'Dakot' but make sure you dont go beyond the 't'.
*Most decals have a semi transparent transfer paper. Take the decal and peel the backing paper carefully off all the letters BUT the 'ta'.
*Carefully line up the 'Dako' over the existing letters on the truck and lightly rub the letters down.
*Then peel the backing paper off the 'a' and press it down firmly. then remove the transfer paper. Then remove the scotch tape with the extra letters.
Thats how they taught new decallers how ot fix missing letters. I usually just skipped the scotch tape part, but I've done that for a while so I could do it without using clear scotch tape.
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