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How to remove stickers on soft top window

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Anyone have a way to safely remove stickers from a soft top window? Friend has a 2021 JLR.
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Safely? No.
You can try standard sticker removal techniques but it is very easy to damage the soft window in the process. I wouldn't even attempt it unless I hated the sticker so much that window damage would be preferable.

If you do attempt it, try Automotive Goo Gone, WD40, or 3M Adhesive Remover. Maybe light heat from a hair dryer but not so much as to weaken the soft window. Try to lift it up with a soft edge, like a credit card. Proceed very slowly and carefully.
 
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Ok, I have goo gone and wd at home. I will tell him what you said!
 

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I took a dealer sticker off my rear window with no damage but it was a pain. I used WD40 and just kept rubbing it with a towel until all of the glue was gone
 

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WOW why would a dealer do this, how horrible.
I know. Fuckers put it right on the window. They also put a dealer badge on the back after I told them I didn't want one.
 

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Hit it with a hair dryer or a heat gun. Just don’t go too hot with a heat gun. This will soften the adhesive and make it easier to peel the sticker. Then use goo-gone or a similar product to remove any adhesive left behind.
 

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I know. Fuckers put it right on the window. They also put a dealer badge on the back after I told them I didn't want one.
They probably didn't tell the lot tech preparing the car and they are told they have to do it to all vehicles, still not an excuse when you told them not to.

Luckily when I picked mine up all they did was put a license plate frame on and a duck on the dashboard when we were signing paperwork.
 

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Second everyone suggesting googone and wd40. I prefer googone I recommend removing in a cool shady spot. I used googone to remove a stripe off my old nissan cube and it worked pretty well
 

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I know. Fuckers put it right on the window. They also put a dealer badge on the back after I told them I didn't want one.
Any chance since you told them you didn’t want it they get you a replacement window?
 

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A few beers and your fingernail with patience and even then probably start looking for a sticker you actually like as removing one from clear plastic that's been baking in the sun..... probably leaving some sort of mar to cover up regardless..... ugh !!! ?
If using any of the above chemicals test a very, very small spot as those ideas are generally for glass, bumpers, bodies, and hard plastics... not soft flex clear plastic.... but, who knows ?
 

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Any chance since you told them you didn’t want it they get you a replacement window?
It was a used car so I doubt it. There was no damage other than my utter rage at having to spend over an hour getting all the gunk off my window. When I looked at it on the lot, no sticker, said I didn't want anything on it, when it came out of detailing there was the sticker and dealer badge :mad:
 

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Just an FYI on goo gone, as others have said, test carefully.

I just used goo gone on my f150 where a previous owner had 3M VHB taped side window visors on. and goo gone got on my rubber weather stripping around the windows and it definitely caused it to swell a little wherever the drips stayed on it.
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