Looking real nice Steve!
The lettering, hmm... I bought some letters to use for for masking when we go to paint the tailgate. My tailgate lettering is suppose to match the bronze color, surrounded by white. The idea was to put the decals in place on top of painted bronze letters, then paint white for surrounding. Thinking the decals would be easily removed, what you are saying is begining to make me wonder if we should apply them differntly so that we can take them off after white has been sprayed. I know windex (which you hadn't used) is good to use for applying window tint.