Plastic Lettering on Front Cap 2014 Itasca Meridian 40U

ItascaJoe

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Hello all. I'm trying to replace the one-inch lettering on my Itasca. They spell out ITASCA and are about one inch tall and have a chrome finish.
Does anyone know how they come off? It looks like they are glued on. Do they even sell them anymore, and if so, where should I look?
Thank you.
 
Likely to be decals. How to remove is often discussed and part of that depends on what RV surface and what tools you have on hand. There is a wheel made for decal removal and I tried it one time with somewhat okay results. It kind of rolls the decal up but tends to leave a fair amount of adhesive left over to scrub off and that is a long term ugly process!

So it can be done but not one I wanted to do again?

But then we also found getting the new to cover the weathered area left after we got the decals off was a trick as we had long decals and low experience putting the new exactly right to cover the area not weathered.

By the time we got done, we were thinking we would have been better to design and have built a new decal that was bigger to cover us for the places where we were never able to get it quite right on placement!

Thought about some of the ready made, off the shelf decals that might fit your style and be much easier to slap over the space left after getting the existing removed?
In our case, we had a definite idea that not being the original decal pattern on a 20 year old RV was not going to be a big factor!
Note that OEM decals can be incredibly expensive if they have to set up and make them one at a time for you!
 
I have never tried this but I've seen other posts about using a hair dryer to heat up and soften the adhesive under the letter and then using dental floss to saw through the glue under the letter. Then use some type of solvent to further clean up the glue. You could contact Winnebago or Lichtsinn RV to see if replacement parts are available. You could also search online for "chrome letters for cars" to find a generic kit of letters but it might be hard to find an exact match.
 
Thank you all for the info. Amazon has these letters, so I'll go there.
 
Likely to be decals.
I’m guessing he means the raised plastic chrome look letters???
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Yes, part of the description sounded like those but then the part about being one inch tall made me think they were possibly not OEM. Hard to tell at times.
 
If not too late, you should call Lichtsinn. The one they have are OEM and already spaced correctly. All you have to do is make sure they are centered when putting them on.
 
Thank you for the info. I called them and ordered from them. They are on a 3-week back order.
 

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