Tuesday, March 9, 2010

How do you take a stubborn sticker off from your car without damaging the paint?

Try soaking it with WD40. That will usually loosen it up and allow you to remove it. A normal wash job will get rid of the WD40.How do you take a stubborn sticker off from your car without damaging the paint?
I find vegetable oil very helpful. Use a cotton bud soaked in a little amount of canola oil or coconut oil. They are friendly to any car paint just in case you over apply . Concentrate on the edge of the sticker, apply slight pressure to allow the oil to react with the glue on the inner side of the sticker. You will discover that the edge would slowly peel off and concentrate on that weak portion by continuing the rubbing action. In addition, veggie oils are biodegradable so they are safe to the environment and safe to your skin as well. Practice your whistling as it may take a while on those synthetic glues.How do you take a stubborn sticker off from your car without damaging the paint?
I would use Goo Gone, that can be purchased at many stores. It does a bang up job. After removing the sticker, just wash the car down and make sure you clean off the area pretty well. You may notice it might be different for a couple of washes for water beading, then it will be normal and 'clean'
Yeah the WD40 should do fine, or if you want a ';natural'; method rather than chemical, I think Simple Green works on some adhesives... but if its really stubborn, probably going to have to be a chemical removal.
But be careful heating this up. Heat it up slowly and check it often. If you just keep heating it you can damage the paint. I have done this quite often to remove the dealer stickers.
Try some rubbing alcohol. directly on the sticker. Then take a plastic knife and carefully work on the gummy part. If sticker is still intact then you might take P knife and loosen one edge of sticker and gently pull a little at a time.
WD-40 is excellent on glue residue. Heat it up, pull it off. Afterward spray WD-40 on the glue and let it soak. Then just wipe it off.
Try to heat it wiht hair dryer.
use a hair dryer or heat gun.

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