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Old 23 March 2006, 07:30 PM
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Anyone any good advice on how to remove stickers easily and not damaging the paintwork

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Old 23 March 2006, 07:38 PM
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Take your time and give it a good polish afterwards.

Applying a bit of heat may also help a bit, eg blast it with a hairdryer. Although you may want to do this in a garage to avoid dodgy looks from neighbours/passers-by..lol
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Took mine off using a hairdryer to heat first, then peeling very slowly whilst still applying heat, and very carefully.

Used a branded sticker remover solution to get rid of any adhesive left, then a damn good polish to reprotect the finish. Took me three times four hour sessions to remove mine, in the winter (full rally stickers).

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Old 23 March 2006, 07:58 PM
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I used boiling water, they just peeled off. Also WD40 removes any access glue, but wash off with loads of water.
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Hairdryer helps a lot IME
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IME...? In my experience??
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yep
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yes it took me and my other half two and a half hours with a hairdryer and some sort of professional heat gun to remove full rally graphics (which was the easy bit)

it then took four men (and me cooking bacon sarnies and making cups of tea) three hours to use Halfords sticker removing liquid, to polish off the sticky adhesive left (that was the hard bit) then a machine polish and it was done.

no marks left, paintwork looking very shiney, and a totally different looking scoob

good luck
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Cheers guys, better leave all Sun afternoon free then
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