Best way to remove something rediculously sticky?

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I pulled off my rear window tint today, since it was put on very poorly and the whole rear window was "blurry"


So what was left after I pulled it off was... glue. A lot of glue, and I couldn't see anything out the rear window.

I spent two hours. Two painful hours, in the back seat of the car with a sponge, some "Goo Gone", and a towel.


I've got about 90% of the window free of the stuff, but there just has to be an easier way to do this. What's left is the extremely hard to reach bottom section of the window.

Any suggestions?
 
Lighter fluid, paint thinner, turpentine, mineral spirits, or if all else fails gasoline, all work really well. Just do not get it on your paint, it tends to like to eat it. Also if you want take a hair dryer or a heat gun, heat up the glue and use a scraper to get rid of the glue...it's a million times easier when it's hot.

Use a scraper like this to, just be careful, I cut the hell out of my arm with one of those when it slipped. If you don't have one, they are like 3 bucks at any hardware store.

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Well I should add that it is a car. I don't want it to stink forever. Although that tint glue stunk like ass.

But Goo Gone made my car smell like industrial strength Oranges. So.. I'd rather it smell like that than straight up gasoline.
 
The moral of the story is to not put tints on your windows in the first place.
 
Doers the rear window of your car have those heating lines to get rid of the fog? (er... rear de-fogger?)

I had a Celica in which the previous owner had tinted the windows and it had the rear de-fogger, and when I took off the tinted windows, the defogger came with it...

Stupid cheap window tint. The best advice for that I think has already been said. Once you're done you'll notice the window probably doesn't look 100% pristine, and you'll probably end up wanting to throw a stone through it and call the insurance.
 
I have used turpentine to pull stickers off car windows.

I would be careful to not disturb the defroster, as Diego said, but if it was my car, I would start trying to remove it with rubbing alcohol, but if that didn't work I'd use acetone, and I'm 99.9% sure that can clean anything sticky.
 
You could do what Joey D said, then go back over the window with the goo gone stuff so it'll smell some what better.
 
-Diego-
Doers the rear window of your car have those heating lines to get rid of the fog? (er... rear de-fogger?)

I had a Celica in which the previous owner had tinted the windows and it had the rear de-fogger, and when I took off the tinted windows, the defogger came with it...

Stupid cheap window tint. The best advice for that I think has already been said. Once you're done you'll notice the window probably doesn't look 100% pristine, and you'll probably end up wanting to throw a stone through it and call the insurance.
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It does have the defogger lines. And no, they didn't come off with the tint sheet. The window behind the areas that I've already removed the tint looks amazingly clean. The tint is even cheaper than what your Celica had.

TuneRVisioN
Take a piss on it. 💡
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Helpful.
 
why wouldn't you want your car too smell like gasoline, yum :dopey: (No, im not kidding)

anywho, I mostly use goof off and it works very well. but it will take paint off to, but your in the inside so that nothing to worry about. You could also use a thing called dissolve it, my mom swears by it that it works for everything, but i have never used it because we can't find it anymore.
 
Omnis
...Waiting for the African and Asian to come in and suggest kigelia oil and bamboo oil respectively.


I'd suggest good ol' American baby oil. Works for gum and stickers and stuff, but especially gum.
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:lol: Thats rich.
 
Matthew Keller
Has your Brain started to function abnormally yet? :odd:
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are blackouts normal?, lol jk.

Gasoline smells awesome. Id say my five favorite smells would have to be:

1. Its a tie between diesel and premium gasoline.
2. spray paint
3. liquid wrench
4. burnt rubber (more like tire smoke)
5. whatever axe im wearing (right now unlimited :sly:)
 
engine degreaser, but don't let it touch anything on the interior. Any type of degreaser is the way to remove anything that won't budge, but be very careful with it. also make sure you have a lot of windex because getting it to be perfectly clean again is a matter of not letting it stay there for long.
 

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