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Old 03-09-2012, 03:52 PM
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I have a 99 Mazda B4000 Troy Lee Edition with the factory flame stripes. Sometimes I look at them and think that they look good but other times I look at them and think they're kinda tacky. If I were to decide to remove them do you guys think that they would come of fairly easy and not leave a shadow where the flames were. One of the stripes has a chip in them and it looks like the paint matches underneath them. So my question is would it look better with or without them? The last pic is where you can tell where the upper flame should look like the lower one, not a straight edge. I don't think that there is much color difference.




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Old 03-09-2012, 03:57 PM
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Definitely leave them on ! , I think they look awsome on that color, makes the truck different, I'm sure not many came with this option package either.
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Old 03-09-2012, 04:09 PM
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keep them! they look awsome on your truck
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Old 03-09-2012, 04:23 PM
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Definitely leave them on ! , I think they look awsome on that color, makes the truck different, I'm sure not many came with this option package either.
Yeah from what I've learned and been told it was a pretty rare package.
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Old 03-09-2012, 04:25 PM
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I say keep em it makes the truck different from all the other trucks on the rd.
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Old 03-09-2012, 04:30 PM
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Def leave em. I'm not a fan of flames in general, but who all do you know that has a TLD Mazda? It separates yours from the rest.
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Old 03-09-2012, 04:45 PM
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Agreed with above. Leave them on. It separates your truck from the millions on the road
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Old 03-09-2012, 04:48 PM
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Those stripes are amazing. Leave them just like everybody else said.
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Old 03-09-2012, 05:21 PM
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no offence,but!
i would have taken them off the day i bought it,they do look tacky!
but if you like them,keep them,its your truck.
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Old 03-09-2012, 06:12 PM
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If I were to get rid of them I mean I'd still have the interior part of the TLD package.
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Old 03-09-2012, 06:14 PM
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I'd take em off.
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Old 03-09-2012, 08:04 PM
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Leave them on, unless you want to see the ghost images of them in the paint when you remove them. Leave em. It'll look better.
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Old 03-09-2012, 08:05 PM
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Remove. Put them on a firebird.
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