How to Remove Rear Bumper Step Cover 2014-17 Subaru Crosstrek

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Open the tailgate. To remove an old faded bumper to protector like this. It’s stuck on with double-sided tape. We can use a heat gun. You could also use a hairdryer.

You do want to be careful that it's not set too hot, because you can melt and damage the paint. We just want to heat this up enough to soften the tape and be able to pull it off. Let's start with it at a fairly high setting. I'm going to start by heating up a corner. Then I'm going to use, you can either use a string or thin wire, after it's heated up.

I'm going to slide it underneath, just like this, and just work it down. Let me heat it up. There's tape along the outer edge here, here, and then around the back. I'm just moving it around, so I don't overheat one spot. I don't want to melt anything. I just want to soften up the double-sided tape. Let's try that out. That's some of it. Whoops. That's working pretty well, so I'm going to keep going, keep heating it up. If you don't have access to a hairdryer or a heat gun, you could always set this out in the sun on a summer day. It can get pretty soft. Once you get it started, usually you can peel it off. That stuff is going to be fun to remove. Just keep heating it.

There's our old one. I'm just going to wipe some of the dirt out of here, just dust it off for now. Sometimes you can take your fingernail, and just peel it off. This is pretty tedious, and you're just going to have to do this until all the remainder of this double-sided tape is removed. I'm using a rubber glove to actually remove it pretty easily. Just kind of rub it. Just go along. I'm going to take some adhesive remover. This adhesive remover is also safe on paint. I'm just going to finish getting off the remainder of it that won't come off with my gloves. Just keep doing this until any traces of the double-sided tape are gone. No more step pad.

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