Best way to remove paint from spare tire cover

[Michael L.]

Guys,

Trying to clean up the spare tire cover on my 69 coupe. A previous owner had painted it rattle can black. My first thought was to carefully use paint remover, doing small areas at a time and not letting it sit too long. What do you think?

Mike

[Edward J.]

Re: Best way to remove paint from spare tire cover

Mike just do not use any paint stripper, use fiberglass paint stripper. or try some lacquer thinner and fine steel wool .

[James W.]

Re: Best way to remove paint from spare tire cover

Mike,

There was a like post a few weeks ago about removing paint from a C2 spare tirecover and the general consensus was to use lacquer thinner and a rag orpossibly the softest 3M Scotch Brite pad that they make.
Regards,

James

Guys,

Trying to clean up the spare tire cover on my 69 coupe. A previous owner had painted it rattle can black. My first thought was to carefully use paint remover, doing small areas at a time and not letting it sit too long. What do you think?

Mike

[Patrick H.]

Re: Best way to remove paint from spare tire cover

Lacquer thinner or acetone. They work quite well.

Interestingly enough, I've also recently had good results with WD-40.

[Michael L.]

Re: Best way to remove paint from spare tire cover

Thanks guys.

[Richard F.]

Re: Best way to remove paint from spare tire cover

An old sign painters trick, use oven cleaner it also removes "traded paint" I used it often when I was in the part time used car business. it never harmed the original paint.

Thanks guys.