You'll see about 8 posts up a
L-O-N-G post by us. It tells the story of our graphics. This post will tell the rest of the story.
So.. as the other post says, we obtained a whole new set of graphics in 2008.
Then, we did what you are
not supposed to do: We let the new graphics sit in our garage from 2008 to mid 2012. Bad place for new graphics to sit because of the fluctuation of heat/cold and dust/dirt. And, graphics have about a two year shelf life. Oh-oh.
We peeled off the old graphics in late 2010 or early 2011 and it was quite a chore. Don't let your graphics go very long once they start cracking. Ours looked like puzzle pieces and each little piece had to be removed by itself. Our Montana was "naked" (all white) and it was
U-G-L-Y and embarrassing to take anywhere. We didn't get around to start applying the new graphics until yesterday. Just had to find them in the garage.
We are "Weekend Warriors". I retired in late 2010 and the husband still works full-time at a business that we own. Our Montana is stored in a storage facility so we don't get to work on it unless we pull it out of storage and over to our shop's parking lot on a weekend where we can work on it.
Once we took the graphics out of the two big boxes and started applying them to the Montana, we were pleasantly surprised. They look great. The colors are still vibrant and the adhesive is good. We are about 90% done with applying and it looks like we gave our Montana a face-lift. It's rather easy to apply the new graphics.
The set they gave us doesn't exactly match up to where the old set was and there are "ghosts" here and there of the old graphics. But that's okay. The Montana still looks great and when you really think about it... having a few ghosts aren't really something to be upset about.
Life is good.