Removing warning sticker

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  1. bldxyz

    bldxyz Well-Known Member

    This sticker seems completely wrong. What’s the best technique to cleanly remove it? IMG_4573.JPG
     
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  3. insightman

    insightman Well-Known Member Subscriber

    LOL! California will likely prosecute you for removing that sticker!

    My go-to sticker-remover is the rubber-cement solvent, Bestine. It won't smell-up the interior like the handier solvent, gasoline, would. It would be ironic to use gasoline to remove an inappropriate ICE-car sticker from your electric car and then have that noxious smell inside your electric car. Still, I'd try to remove the sticker w/o a solvent so there would be less chance of having to clean off residual adhesive after using the solvent. If that failed, I'd use the solvent.

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  4. GvilleGuy

    GvilleGuy Well-Known Member

    Ah - I was like "I don't have that sticker". But then I saw the P65.ca.gov. :)
     
  5. quietlyspinach

    quietlyspinach Active Member

    I had that sticker. I just grabbed it slowly and it peeled right off with almost no residue. The tiny bit around the edges of the sticker came off with a simple moist cloth.
     
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  6. Hutch

    Hutch Active Member

    Tetrahydrofuran is the best at getting any residue off windows. But you won't find if at Walmart.
     
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  8. quietlyspinach

    quietlyspinach Active Member

    I had no issues because I pulled it off within hours of getting my car, so I suspect the sticker was not on for very long. But for stickers which are older and have dried out glue, I use Goof Off. It dissolves pretty much any glue residue; it's what I use to clean up that super-strong dashcam adhesive when I remove the old dashcam mount.
     
  9. Toi

    Toi Well-Known Member

    any chemical suited for removing that label will also cause the state of california... er... known to california to cause cancer...
     
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  10. bldxyz

    bldxyz Well-Known Member

    Sitting at stoplight
    A fingernail did the trick
    Barely any trace

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  11. It almost looks like you’re giving it the finger.
     
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  13. bldxyz

    bldxyz Well-Known Member

    I had that thought, too. I had to double check I wasn’t using the wrong finger before I posted!
     
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  14. F14Scott

    F14Scott Well-Known Member

    After removal, to dispose of it, I'd drop it in a bucket of used motor oil and pour it down the storm drain.
     
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  15. GetOffYourGas

    GetOffYourGas Well-Known Member

    Then light the drain on fire?
     
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