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Old Apr 21, 2009 | 11:44 PM
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Alrite peeps I would like to remove my WRX sticker on the boot lid and dont know whats best to use to remove a sticker thats basically fourteen years old!!! Anybody know????
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Old Apr 21, 2009 | 11:46 PM
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Alrite peeps I would like to remove my WRX sticker on the boot lid and dont know whats best to use to remove a sticker thats basically fourteen years old!!! Anybody know????

Hair dryer or hot air gun. Take your time with the hot air gun.
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Old Apr 22, 2009 | 12:26 AM
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Cheers< do I need to use any solution or just a hair dryer?
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Old Apr 22, 2009 | 07:24 AM
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Just put the hot air on the sticker and you should be able to peel it off
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Old Apr 22, 2009 | 09:58 AM
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Once they are off any residual glue can be lifted off with some meths/white spirit. Preferably not in a brown bag for later
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Old Apr 22, 2009 | 06:00 PM
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took ages to peel ours off and had the glue stuck there for ages..........finally used Autoglym Bug and Tar Remover
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Ok, so the mr's hair dryer and some autoglym bug and tar remover! Great guys!
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Ok, so the mr's hair dryer and some autoglym bug and tar remover! Great guys!
I bet the hair dryer is yours really
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Old Apr 22, 2009 | 09:26 PM
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I don't have any hair on my head, No the hair dryers the mr's... I own the straigteners!
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Guys, It took ages to remove the sticker... I even roped in the mr's to help me peel it off (she has longer nails) she'd even snapped a nail, now thats dedication!
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Old Apr 25, 2009 | 06:41 AM
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Originally Posted by classic joe
Guys, It took ages to remove the sticker... I even roped in the mr's to help me peel it off (she has longer nails) she'd even snapped a nail, now thats dedication!
You will have to pay for new one's for her now at the salon
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Old Apr 25, 2009 | 05:53 PM
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yeah i know, cost a bloody bomb aswell!
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