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If I leave my Vibe parked on the street, my town requires a town parking sticker (I actually paid more to garage park it to avoid putting the stupid sticker on). However, if I do put it on, has anyone ever found something to remove the sticker and glue?Any guidance would be helpful.

I had a parking warning sticker put on my window while away on a business trip. The sticker was designed not to come off. I went to Wal-Mart and got a glass paint scraper, and it came right off, glue and all. Paint thinner or car tar remove would get any possible remaining glue off.

There's a product out there called "Goo Gone".I've used it on all kinds of stickers and glue and it's never failed yet. No scratching just rub with a cloth. It's also pretty cheap.

I was looking at both Goo Gone and Goof Off at Lowe's. One of them (forget which) has a regular and a "Professional Strength". The professional strength says "extremely flammable" so ti is probably solvent based. The other is just a skin & eye irritant - I would not expect that to work as well. There are websites for both that provide more information than the labels.

Since the sticker would be on glass, I would personally use a razor blade to remove the sticker itself, then use the razor blade along with some WD 40 to remove any leftover residue.

Google 'sticker shield'When we used to take groups climbing in devils lake, my climbing partner would either take his suv or mine. We found it cheaper to purchase one season state park pass than to keep purchAsing individual passes every time we went up. We bought one permit, and bought the 'sticker shield' . You put the sticker on this and can remove it and move it to another part of the window, or to another car easily

used to live in a town that had the stickers to park on the street, thankfully moved out of there before i had the vibe so never had to put any on her. on the other vehicles i drove while living there whenever i had to remove a sticker i would use a razor blade and liberal amounts of windex. didn't want to be one of those people with year after year of sticker on the windscreen. just one is more than enough for me.

thanks - since the stupid sticker has to be on the bumper according to town law, I will try goo gone - assuming it doesnt remove paint...

On paint? Use WD40 It will dissolve the glue, leave the paint absolutely unmarred. It'sCheap, you probably already have a few cans of it and it has many other good uses as well.Dave

Quote, originally posted by ramenboy... »Google 'sticker shield'When we used to take groups climbing in devils lake, my climbing partner would either take his suv or mine. We found it cheaper to purchase one season state park pass than to keep purchAsing individual passes every time we went up. We bought one permit, and bought the 'sticker shield' . You put the sticker on this and can remove it and move it to another part of the window, or to another car easily Wouldn't that also make it easy for someone to steal it?

Quote, originally posted by jake75 »Wouldn't that also make it easy for someone to steal it?Sorry Jake, didn't realize the OP had to have the sticker on the bumper. Was thinking it was a windshield sticker. That's what the sticker shield is for. Mounted inside the car, on the windhield. Then the sticker can be removed easily or moved from one windshield to another

Quote, originally posted by boudini »thanks - since the stupid sticker has to be on the bumper according to town law, I will try goo gone - assuming it doesnt remove paint...I think goo gone is basically acetone. I would be afraid of harming the paint.

I've used this to remove decals and never had a problem with the paint myself. Can't guarantee it for anyone else.Here is what I used: http://www.googone.com/GG-Brow...r-1oz

Quote, originally posted by boudini »thanks - since the stupid sticker has to be on the bumper according to town law, I will try goo gone - assuming it doesnt remove paint...Having to put it on the bumper is the dumbest thing I have ever heard! What a bunch of bs ! Any city/parking/etc. sticker I've ever seen is on one of the windows .Quote, originally posted by djkeev »On paint? Use WD40 It will dissolve the glue, leave the paint absolutely unmarred. It'sCheap, you probably already have a few cans of it and it has many other good uses as well.x2. I used WD 40 to remove the badges on my hatch and it doesn't hurt the paint at all. Hopefully the sticker isn't too big and doesn't leave much residue behind. You should be able to just carefully remove the leftover adhesive using the WD 40 and your fingernails. A hair dryer might also help to soften the adhesive and make it easier to remove.

it is (one of) the stupidest rules in the world-which was why I did not want to get the permit to begin with.I do have wd-40, and anything that will not damage the paint is my choice-so once again, thanks for all the guidance

Quote »I think goo gone is basically acetone. I would be afraid of harming the paint. I used goo gone to remove the leftover glue from my badges when i debadged my car. I also used it too remove a very annoying dealer sticker that took me a very long time to remove and lots of goo gone. That was a couple months ago and there is no harm to the paint in any of those areas

Quote, originally posted by boudini »thanks - since the stupid sticker has to be on the bumper according to town law, I will try goo gone - assuming it doesnt remove paint...I would contest this "law" they don't allow you to deface their property don't let them do it to your soon to be collector car

The only thing WD40 is good for - removing stickers.