How to preserve door sticker during chemical dipping?

[talljordan]

Ill be sending my shell off for chemical dipping and painting soon, and for import/legal/registration reasons I MUST retain the original door sticker with no exceptions.

What's the best way to preserve this thing? Cut out with a dremel and get the bodyman to very very very carefully weld it back in after dipping? Can a new one with a matching VIN be manufactured?

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[Glenn]

Ask the dipper.

This guy sells reproductionshttps://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=2413800

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[talljordan]

Dipper says that if the sticker is there, it'll be destroyed. Has to come off ahead of time.

Replacement may be the play, but the safety pattern doesnt seem to be punched out on the replacements
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[Glenn]

You can try heat, maybe a hair dryer and if not a heat gun.
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[67ctbug]

You're not getting it off in one piece, that's the point of the safety pattern. There is a company that makes them with the pattern and dots cut in, but I can't remember who.
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[viiking]

I don’t know about your US regulations but wouldn’t you get a problem “counterfeiting” a federally mandated ID plate?

I mean if it was that easy what stops people making these up to falsify stolen cars?

Just saying!
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[esde]

you either don't get that door dipped, or you carefully cut that section out and then weld it back. And then, not destroying the sticker with heat is the issue. I think carefully stripping that door by hand is the sensible choice, unless there's some reason the door absolutely needs to be dipped
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[67ctbug]

[talljordan]

These stickers are on the door frame, so not dipping isnt an option either. Leaning towards the dremmel at this point, if it gets wrecked ill buy a new one
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[Teeroy]

You have three other metal VIN locations, not having the door jam sticker isn't a deal breaker. When I was working at a Nissan body shop we had a vendor that made replacements for most makes (don't recall how far back), just had to verify the VIN.
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[bandi]

I've had decent success with a heat gun, hair dryer doesn't seem to get the adhesive hot enough.
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[obieoberstar]

Just curious as to how you proceeded with this sticker issue.

My main concern would have been trying to find the VW of Canada sticker for the door jamb in a reproduction.