We have some very attractive flowers stickers on a bay we picked up just over a week ago and I'm keen to take them off. There must be about 30 of them stuck to the outside of the van. A friend has suggested using a hair dryer on them then peel them off. Just wanted to see if anyone has attempted this before and whether they have any advice for removing them in the easiest possible way! Any help appreciated
Your friend is correct. Then once the sticker is off you need to get the glue off. Then you may be left with a different shade of paint under the stickers.
hair dryer is a pretty good idea!! you need to warm up the adhesive so it has less "grab" on the paint...
Very funkadelic YC Pic of Percy pasted below Silver; hopefully there won't be too many obvious signs of different paint shades on there
if you use to much heat it will leave the glue behind, then you will be needing to use something to get that off ( from experiance i use petrol ) if you get the amount of heat just right then it will leave minimal glue. if they ve been in a while there may be paint fade issues as well. Good Luck
try gently peeling one of the smaller ones, if its really stcuk try gentle heat to loosen the glue peel off sticker use auto glym tar and glue remover on any residue. the cheaper stuff isnt much good wash then polish the paint and it will be fine
wd40 is good for getting stickers and glue from windows. not sure about paintwork, but don't suppose it'll do it any harm (or will it?). wd40 is ACE at cleaning all sorts of stuff!
Attempted some of them today using hair dryer and then auto glym tar and adhesive remover, all worked a treat! Thanks for the advice from everyone. Before and after pics below: BEFORE AFTER
