As nice as the dealer sticker looks on the back of my Octy.. I would rather it not be there.

I've tried picking it off.. and gave up very quickly when I realised it wouldn't work. Washing it off failed too. Can anyone suggest an idea before I get the scouring pads out..?

Its quite hard, silver plasticy-vinyl.

Cheers.

Get a hair dryer on the other side of the glass - they're a pain to remove at this time of year but once the glass is hot its much easier.

If it's not near any heater eliment wires in the rear screen you can use a Paint scraper for windows [razor blade type ] Nail polish remover for the glue.....Hpoe this helps.........................Andy

just get ur hair dryer out and blast the heat on it..... it will peel off easy! no scrapping or razor blades needed. Meths gets the glue off. 2 min job. 1st thing i did.

Sorry, its on the boot.. not the glass. I'm just worried about damaging / scraping the paint by picking it off with anything.

Use the hair dryer on the paintwork too. A good rule of thumb is that if you cant hold your hand under the heat, the paint wont like it either.

Just needs a gently warming and it should come off OK.

Cheers guys.

I can just see the conversation now..

"Mrs UncleRic, can I borrow your hair dryer?"

"Can't you just towel dry?"

"Erm... actually I need it for the car..!

"Eh?"

Just as an aside to this some dealers insist that you leave the sticker on until 6 months have passed from sale (a local garage i wont name actually will put new stickers on when the car goes in for service)

I'd be quite annoyed myself if one had been put on the bodywork and you hadn't asked for it! Window ones I can cope with as they can be quite easily removed.

Get them to take it off!

What is it with buying a car and having to run around with free advertising for the dealer? Do estate agents glue a sign to the outside of all houses they sell? Errr, NO! :confused:

Steve

Just as an aside to this some dealers insist that you leave the sticker on until 6 months have passed from sale (a local garage i wont name actually will put new stickers on when the car goes in for service)

That's unfair. You buy the car and get an unwanted sponsorship deal thrown in too! Perhaps you should charge for their services??

First thing I do when I buy a car is remove the dealer stickers.

I've never heard of this 6 month business before, but if a dealer re-applied a sticker to my window, they'd be taking it off before I paid for my service.

I specifically requested not to get stickered up beyond the normal one inside the windscreen that holds the tax disc.

That one was replaced asap with the briskoda tax disc holder. All those stickers take up valuable screen estate in an area where I would actually like to see out of the window.

My dealer(s) didn't seem to mind at all + you can still see where I bought it from on the number plates anyway, sufficient IMHO

The longer they stay in the more difficult they are to get off :(

If the hairdriyer doesn't work completely because glue residue remains, try petrol or barbecue igniting fluid in small quantity LOL on a bit of soft cloth.

Mo

Cheers guys... I tried the hairdryer method and it worked a treat.. no more free advertising for my dealer!!

WD40 and lighter fluid work well for removing glue residue.

use a microfibre cloth though to avoid scratch marks

Or maplin / servisol label remover.

Smells nively of orange too

I don't mind adveritsing for my dealer because they are brillint with me (being their best customer) but not today...

Just as an aside to this some dealers insist that you leave the sticker on until 6 months have passed from sale (a local garage i wont name actually will put new stickers on when the car goes in for service)

No dealer whatsover has any right to insist you keep a sticker advertising them on your car. If a dealer ever said that to me I would insist on a monthly payment from them for advertising.

I did hear someone took their car in for a service at a different dealer from where they bought it and when he picked it back up it had their stickers in instead.

One Cambridge dealer puts there name in black transfers - on the rear tailgate. I know I bought a new car from them, and made them take them off before I would pay for the car.

That is going too far.

A small dealer sticker is fine for me.

I made sure when ordering my car that the dealer knew not to put any of their 'orrible stickers in the back window. They block out a significant amount of what is an already small window (a bit letterbox-like on a Furby) and if you try and tear them off you knacker the heater elements.

There's enough dealer advertising on the car anyway: both number plates, tax disk holder, service reminder.......

Just as an aside to this some dealers insist that you leave the sticker on until 6 months have passed from sale (a local garage i wont name actually will put new stickers on when the car goes in for service)

they've no right to 'make' you keep it on for any length of time at all. If they stuck a sticker on my car when it was in for work I'd be making them take it off, and if any damage was caused to paintwork or the windows/heater element I'd be mentioning something about unlawfully damaging my car.

Aside from the reg plates and tax disc holder, my new vrs doesn't have any dealership stickers on it at all.

All the other cars (non fabia vrs) I've seen from there do have stickers on so I can only presume they used their heads and didn't think that a 20something couple would want a bloody great dealership sticker in the back window of their new car!

Would agree it's out of order applying all these stickers, requested my car came without them and it did, pity it's on the number plate though.

It is a legal requirement to put on the plates where they were made so they have to. Although I agree it is annoying.