What you do you need to remove those decals?
(not much)… This is all I used!
(Full disclosure, I am an amazon affiliate and this post contains links to products that I earn from qualifying purchases and I appreciate the support.)
- Decal Eraser Wheel
- Drill – if you don’t have one something like this would work: Click Here!
- 3M Marine Rubbing Compound
- Rags for apply rubbing compound or electric buffer (I’d recommend a 6 inch one like this because pads are available at most stores) with extra pads
- A plastic scrapper – I used an old plastic scrapper I had from wall papering
No one likes it when their camping trailer decals look dull, sun faded, and worse starts peeling!
After some research into how I could fix this issue, some suggested getting a good hand buffer and putting down several coats of wax. Spoiler – this didn’t work for us! While it did shine up the trailer it didn’t fix the fading and obviously didn’t help the areas that were peeling off.
It was back to researching for me.
Turned to facebook groups where someone had luck using a “decal eraser wheel” and a drill. At first I thought there was no way this would work or I’d just end up putting a bunch of mini dents all over the camper… but it wasn’t super expensive so I thought what the hell.
This is the decal eraser wheel product that I purchased here (full disclosure, I am an amazon affiliate and I earn from qualifying purchases):
I grabbed my husband’s drill and a step ladder and got to work.
The wheel was used for most of the trailer but I did need the small wall paper plastic scrapper to removed the decals from around areas the wheel was too big to get to or I didn’t want something spinning fast around (like the lights). I don’t remember where I got mine but this one is similar (full disclosure, I am an amazon affiliate and I earn from qualifying purchases): Click here.
Removing all the decals from our small 18.5 foot camper ended up requiring about 3 of these wheels. It also took me roughly 25 hours of work to remove them all and then buff out the trailer with the hand buffer and this 3M marine Rubbing compound (full disclosure, I am an amazon affiliate and I earn from qualifying purchases):
Our final result was a camper with no sun faded decals but we still had a lot of ghosting. The buffering helped a LITTLE but to me it was still fairly obviously ghosted. I was informed that with time and yearly buffing that this would eventually fade enough that it wouldn’t be obvious. Fingers crossed!
Over all – I’m happy with the results. Our little pod camper is naked and shiny! Well worth the cost and effort to me!
