Removing Exterior Vinyl Decals

I'm ready to officially add the P71 to the Decker fleet. However, I need to remove all of these exterior decals and I don't feel like sitting out there with a heat gun wasting hours of time peeling them off by hand. I did some research and some folks suggest certain chemicals and others say to get wheels and attachments for the drill.

Any sure fire way to remove these vinyl graphics, quickly and without damaging the paint, preferably with something mechanical?

 

ttocs, I bought the wheel today that CWO suggested. I had a discount coupon for Advanced Auto and it ending up costing me $38.65 total after tax. It's supposed to be close to 50 degrees towards the end of the week, I may try and get the decals off the cop car and a pin stripe on my ranger that I've wanted off for a while.

The wheel looks like it will decrease in size as it's used, but I am sure that I won't use the whole thing. I can throw it in a bubble mailer and send it your way when I'm done if you want to throw a few $ my way later.

 

No problem. I'll let you know how it works out and post some photos along with the wheel itself when I'm done and we'll go from there.

 

Around here? Nah... these small town cops have nothing better to do but to harass people for lame reasons and I don't need to be on their radar by driving around some whacker-mobile.

I'll keep the spotlight and the "police interceptor" badge on the trunk lid, but the rest of it has to go.

 

What a pain in the ****ing ass! I don't know if I was doing something wrong, or if those decals were baked on the car. I think they've been on there for about 10 years.

I just spend about 6 hours (literally) removing those damn decals, and I'm STILL not done. I got about a quarter of the way to go, but it got dark and I was cold and pissed, so I called it a night. The eraser wheel seems to work, but it doesn't take the vinyl off in chunks, instead of breaks the decals into a million little pieces and smudges them everywhere. My wrists, hands and arms are so damn tired from holding that drill all afternoon. :deeplist:

 

Okay sounds good. I'll go back out there next warm day and try to wrap it up. Hopefully my eraser wheel holds up long enough to finish the job.

 

Do you think it would be safe to use it on the rear bumper cover? Unlike the metal doors and fenders, I'm a bit concerned about the friction and heat generated on the plastic.