About a year ago, I had my bike repainted. Vinyl decals from velocals were applied over the top of the automotive paint (and clearcoat) by the painter. I was told the freshly painted bike was put in a "hot box" to cure before the decals were applied.

All in all the painter did a fantastic job....except the downtube decals are ever so slightly misaligned. The panels are painted so it is individual letters applied over the blue paint.

You can't really tell that much from the side of the bike.

Drive-side:




Non-drive side:



However when I'm riding, every damn time I look down this is what I see:



And it still bugs me one year later!

I'm so tempted to re-purchase one set of decals from velocals and attempt to reapply myself. However velocals indicated to me that there is a risk of pulling up the clearcoat if it adhered to the decal before fulling curing :-/

What would you do? I'm tempted to try the heatgun and go slowly to see what happens. If it looks like it is pulling the clearcoat, I abort and glue it down.

Or I can just live with it and hopefully not obsess over it...