How to get this dealers sticker off

[gman]

There area hundred things you can use.

Prep-sol is a spray painters preparation solvent used to remove wax and grease from painted surfaces before either painting or buffing or to remove excess build up of adhesive/wax/painters coat etc from clearcoated surfaces. If my panel beater uses it, its good enough for me.

There are lots of different ways to clean paint, some are harsher than others. Just becareful no matter what you use.

[Neeko]

just don't use paint stripper

[gman]

sandpaper perhaps? then again perhaps not...

[axe246]

Go to bunnings a bottle of De Solve IT glue and sticker remover. its natural so wont screw your paint.

[sooty]

Go to bunnings a bottle of De Solve IT glue and sticker remover. its natural so wont screw your paint.

That stuff sorta works...but you have to let it soak in A LOT. I use it almost every day i work to get the stickers off the furniture and patio heaters etc at work. There are probably better things out there...no detriment to the above comment of course..just letting you know my personal experience with it

[pd-xc-72464118]

I used a hair dryer and a plastic cap from a 5 1/4 computer drive bay cover!

I removed a dutch international car sticker that had really faded like buggery. Once heated up the sticker itself came off very easily. Unfortunately the lettering was almost steel in that there was some sort of aluminium-like thin layer behind the N and L lettering. This seems to have caused a very-noticeable-up-close but not-noticeable-from-a-distance 'shadow'.

To remove the oval-shaped excess decrepit glue mark I did indeed use very small amounts of Eucalyptus Oil branded none other than "Eureka!" of course. The bottle says it's a 20% solution and water soluble so I guess I just got lucky because I tried it before even joining this forum, let alone seeing this thread.

I guess if I really want to get the 'shadow' off, I could cut and polish it, but I'm not sure I care enough to risk a bigger-looking 'bald spot'.

At this point I would like to give a huge swift slap to any and all morons who are stupid enough to put stickers on duco. Really, what the flying truck are they thinking?

[HappySlapper82]

http://www.rcr.com.au/proval/catalogue.php?subid=8

Completely removed vinyl's that covered our 12yr-old sun baked work ute pretty easily.

[Wraith]

Once the sticker is removed - by whatever means, what's wrong with just using some simple wax n polish to remove the adhesive or any other left over residue ?? it will do the task and is absolutely no risk of adverse effects, why would one have to go to the trouble and expense of acquiring solvents or other products mentioned which will then sit around and 'probably' not be ever used again...at least with the wax n polish, most people already have this and can use it all the time !

Also for any work of this kind, use a cotton terry cloth, much better than even microfibre and everyone has cotton terry cloths already in their homes ...just my 2 cents

[USC]

Once the sticker is removed - by whatever means, what's wrong with just using some simple wax n polish to remove the adhesive or any other left over residue ?? it will do the task and is absolutely no risk of adverse effects, why would one have to go to the trouble and expense of acquiring solvents or other products mentioned which will then sit around and 'probably' not be ever used again...at least with the wax n polish, most people already have this and can use it all the time !

Also for any work of this kind, use a cotton terry cloth, much better than even microfibre and everyone has cotton terry cloths already in their homes ...just my 2 cents

True but wax and polish could also remove layers of paint. Solvent will only dissolve the glue, then followed by a wax n polish to polish the whole surface. but each to their own.

[guy 27]

I just spent a spare hour or so picking at mine then some bug and tar remover I already had followed by a quick wax.

I would say just use what you have and take your time.