Seems like my great joke was thoroughly unappreciated. And I thought my readers had a sense of humour! 😀

This afternoon, I made some real in roads in destriping Miranda. I’ve discovered that a hair dryer and a scraper are the only things I need to do an efficient job. The hair dryer softens the vinyl and adhesive and the scraper allows me to bring up an edge that gives me a good grip for removing large chunks. I just need to find the right scraper. Plastic isn’t sharp enough but metal is too damaging. The perfect thing is a finger nail, which is less than ideal!

I’m now working at doing whole sections and not worrying about ghosting at this time. I’ll get all the striping off then see how uneven the finish is after doing a thorough buffing.

Here’s the passenger side before:

Today, I got rid of the writing at the back, the big burgundy swipe next to that, and the wide burgundy stripe under it.

that white patch once held writing and a big burgundy swoosh; you can also compare the compartment door to the wall to see that I removed the wide burgundy stripe below the green and pink

you can see the ghosting of ‘Royal Classic’

You can see the ghost of the big burgundy stripe above the green