Exterior Decals

Since it's going to rain this weekend and I can't do more work with the paint, I'll start documenting some of the mods I made prior to starting this blog.  First up, exterior decals...

When I bought my t@b, all of the exterior vinyl decals either fell off or were removed by the previous owners. It was completely bare. The very first one I added was the custom made U+0009 decal; I wanted to get this as a custom license plate, but DOL doesn't allow you to use one letter followed by numbers.  I guess that's a pattern they already use and didn't want to worry about excluding custom plates from the generator.

When I put it on, my husband just looked at it, rolled his eyes, and walked away. For those of you who don't work in IT and don't get it, take a look at unicode.  Yes, I'm hilarious.

The second one, the mountain graphic, is a stock vinyl decal from Amazon and was pretty cheap.  Find it and many more like it by searching for "vinyl decal rv".

The third one is a replacement "stock" decal on the front.  This came from eBay, from a vendor that I'm sure had explicit written permission to reproduce a trademarked logo (/s for the sarcasm impaired).

It was expensive ($60) but almost exactly the same size as the original, which left a faint shadow on the aluminum skin that I wanted to hide/cover up.  Applying decals of this size takes some practice (and occasionally three hands) but there are plenty of videos on YouTube that will teach you how.  Search for the "hinge method" and make sure it involves a spray bottle with slightly soapy water.