You're My Boy, Blue

[ScottyB]

so earlier i mentioned that the passenger rear door doesn't have the factory decal, probably because it was hit and needed repainted.  can't believe i missed that when i bought the car, but excitement and tight schedules can do that to you.  

anyway, in my quest to keep the car as factory as possible and because i'm a secret ricer, i nabbed a factory decal to try to get the door back to how Honda intended it.  i've never done this before so i didn't know how badly i'd bork this up but it came out better than i thought.

after an area cleaning with dish soap, i went with windex as a lubricant to help position the decal.  i guess it worked OK because the decal's stuck on there good now.


did some rough measuring with masking tape as some guidepoints, trimmed the excess application sheet, and held my breath.  used a credit card as a squeegee.  the application sheet had started to curl in the heat in my garage, and pull up the decal as a result, so i had to hold down some of the end with masking tape.


i found that the decal took quite a bit of time to "Cure" with the windex under it, so that it wasn't floating on the liquid and started to stick to the paint instead.  the result was that i had to babysit it quite a bit after a few hours and re-squeegee the bubbles out as the windex dried out and the decal came into further contact with the paint.  

its not perfect - there's a few bubbles i had to pop with a careful x-acto blade poke and some of the edges got pulled here or there with the squeegee card.  but overall, from 3 or 4 feet out it looks about right.



here's hoping the new levels of stock-ness make me even less popular with the cool honda kids.