Morning all,

 

I am slowly working through my newly purchased Octavia tidying the little bits of neglect its picked up, and one of the next jobs is cleaning the headlights as one side has what's left of a beam deflector stuck to it.

 

I have no idea how long its been stuck on there for as I have just bought the car, but it certainly looks like its been there for a while !  I was thinking the easiest way clean this might be to use a razor blade / Stanley knife blade to scrap the worst off and then clean of the remaining adhesive with tar remover or something similar.

 

My main concern was that there was some sort of coating on the glass that I could damage by scraping it (as I have done previously on other cars), has anyone attempted this before who can confirm I am not going to make matters in all look much worse ?

 

Cheers

Jon

 

 

try some de-solve it sticky stuff remover. I've used it to take off flyeye, badges, lettering etc. and it takes it off very easily and leaves no residue, think it's fairly cheap too

Brake cleaner, 

https://www.eurocarparts.com/ecp/p/car-accessories/car-maintenance-accessories/maintenance-fluids-and-greases/maintenance-fluids/?NOR2897333500&&cc5_858

 

Great for all manner of removing marks, sticky bits etc.

 

Spray on some kitchen roll and gently rub the sticky residue. Keep using a fresh bit of roll with cleaner until its all off.