To remove decals a good method us to heat it up with a heat gun or
hair dryer. Any remaining adhesive ( if any) can be removed with
adhesive remover. There are citrus natural earth friendly kinds thy
work great and smell great  or goo be gone would work too.  But often
after heating the decal as you go it just peels right off magically. I
usedto work doing vehicle graphics and this is how we worked on decal
removal.

Aimee in Olympia

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On Mar 18, 2010, at 4:55 AM, Raymond Paquette
<raymondpaquette@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> Hi
>
> Anybody have ideas about how to remove the reflective stripe that goes
> around the vanagon (or at least around mine)? I want to paint, so it
> has
> to go. On mine, and on the one in the picture, it is the grey stripe
> just below the windows, right through the door handles.
> http://www.vanagon.com/static/img/old/media/syncro/img/syncro_brochure_1.jpg
>
> I'm hoping there's a better way than sandblasting or scraping, as I
> hadn't intended on going to bare metal on most of it.
>
> Raymond