[h=1]After the recall, how to remove your bumper sticker?[/h]
A little bashful about your bumper sticker politicking after the election?
Nail polish remover, rubbing alcohol or lighter fluid will loosen a bumper sticker, as will commercial adhesive removers like 3M and Goo Gone. Don't pour the stuff on the sticker. Pour it on to a clean cloth and saturate the sticker, let it soak for a minute, then peel it off.
Sometimes a sticker will come off if you heat it with a blow dryer (set on low), and slowly pull it up as the adhesive warms. WD-40 also works, though it is a little messier, and be careful on plastics.
These are just suggestions. If you didn't want to damage your car, you wouldn't have put a bumper sticker on it in the first place.
The easiest bumper stickers to remove are made with removable adhesive, commonly called "easy-off adhesive." The toughest are the paper ones, which fade quickly and wrinkle but are hard to get off. Remember, don't use solvent on painted surfaces.
Mark Hollmann, manager at the Octopus Car Wash on Park Street, said he uses a steam system to warm up the sticker, releasing the glue, at $5 per sticker.
The longer you leave the sticker on — if your candidate won, for example — the more likely the color beneath it will not match the rest of the car when you take it off, noted Hollmann.
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Of course, there’s a way to get those Obama stickers off too:
Nail polish remover, rubbing alcohol or lighter fluid will loosen a bumper sticker, as will commercial adhesive removers like 3M and Goo Gone. Don't pour the stuff on the sticker. Pour it on to a clean cloth and saturate the sticker, let it soak for a minute, then peel it off.
Sometimes a sticker will come off if you heat it with a blow dryer (set on low), and slowly pull it up as the adhesive warms. WD-40 also works, though it is a little messier, and be careful on plastics.
These are just suggestions. If you didn't want to damage your car, you wouldn't have put a bumper sticker on it in the first place.
The easiest bumper stickers to remove are made with removable adhesive, commonly called "easy-off adhesive." The toughest are the paper ones, which fade quickly and wrinkle but are hard to get off. Remember, don't use solvent on painted surfaces.
Mark Hollmann, manager at the Octopus Car Wash on Park Street, said he uses a steam system to warm up the sticker, releasing the glue, at $5 per sticker.
The longer you leave the sticker on — if your candidate won, for example — the more likely the color beneath it will not match the rest of the car when you take it off, noted Hollmann.
http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/lo...cle_bf044c7c-b0df-11e1-85cd-0019bb2963f4.html
Of course, there’s a way to get those Obama stickers off too: