Good luck making the new stick back on. If you go back with new.
Yeah ^This.
Idfk why, I’m not a total idiot, hell, I repainted the whole truck and got the paint to stick just fine.
But that fckin trim….
I laid it all out flat for weeks, even in the sun, applied in warm weather, prepped the paint with wax and grease remover and f it if I haven’t had to re-stick at least 50% of it in the first year.
Biggest issue is it doesn’t lay flat so when I pressed it on, the outside edges grabbed first and the inside edges of the adhesive strips wouldn’t.
Any of the contours like at the fender wells or around the back corners it never stuck right and I heated those up with a heat gun until they bent like a cooked noodle. (I ran the trim all the way around to the tailgate. Can replace easy enough with the tin pieces I removed, but…..)
I’ve gone thru almost 2 rolls of the replacement 3M double sided tape. Which also holds MUCH better (original on the trim was 3M too, so???idfk).
Doing it again, I’d suggest if it doesn’t sit flat (curled a little top to bottom) I’d spend the time to try to press it flat first. Idk put it all between 2 pieces of plywood and span it with some lumber and park a car on top of it?
And/or consider just doubling up the tape with more 3m before even trying.
