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Have spent about 4hrs peeling off the original, but badly faded, set of 'kamper' side stripes on my autohomes kamper. What is left is a sticky residue. Any tips for removing this? Have thought about white spirit, thinners, even petrol, but before I try all three has anyone any better suggestions...and one that is unlikely to harm the paint?

Many thanks

Us a hairdryer to warm up the old ones before removal. Remove the glue residue with WD40 or 3 in 1 oil.

Worked a treat for me. Best of luck.

supergalaxy wrote:Us a hairdryer to warm up the old ones before removal. Remove the glue residue with WD40 or 3 in 1 oil.

Worked a treat for me. Best of luck.

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Hi, yeah I used my wifes hairdryer (special permission was granted!), didn't think about wd40 to be honest. I'll give it a go.

thinners will remove the paint

deicer, the aerosol stuff you use to clear the windscreen when frozen that has isoprop2 in it will remove the glue residue, as it says on the product avoid prolonged contact with paint, so do a small area at a time, but it softens the glue and makes it mobile, brake cleaner will soften it but it instantly resets as a smear
top tip from Krankenwagen the deicer and I have used it only this week to remove some vinyl glue from the perspex windows at the unit and no damage to the perspex

use tar and glue remover from the motor factors thats what is is designed for, or surgical spirit from chemist surgical spirit you can even use it on plastic

a spray called desolvit from a hardware shop its used for sticky labels but to be honest thinners or gun wash works fine.

Thinners will remove paint

In the end I used petrol. After liberally applying with a cloth the residue quickly softens and can be easily scraped away. I trashed my Sainsburys nectar card in the process however ha ha. After that I applyed t-cut and then washed and waxed the area...barely any witness of the old transfes...job done!!

much easier if you had used the correct stuff no scraping or scratching of paintwork you just wipe it of,

Believe me, these transfers have been on since 1987, and were well and truely baked on. Was a relatively cheap fix in the end anyway.

Done similar stuff with a wall paper steamer and plenty of soap before, get rid of the glue with molykote multi purpose lubricant.