MDC car stickers

[Klaus]

Anybody has any good solution to remove this years stickers glue from the car body. On glas at my car is no glue stuck, but all of the glue at the paint. last year was easy. I don't want to try too agressive fluid not to damage the paint.
Next year I think I put them from inside with tape, evenso then you can not read the sponsor only the number.
There are print studios that use material you can remove without any problem and you see and no glue is left on your car, only it's more exspensive. May be agood idea for next MDC.

[Fouad Berjaoui]

Have you tried Kerosene ? if you clean it wirh Kerosene then clean the Kerosene pretty quickly it doesnt damage your paint.

Fouad

[Mani]

Hey Fl;ying Dutch Man

first of all how is your car , and for glue try the kerosen Oil which is almost unharmfull to paint , as compare to Petrol, thinner or spirit , or in a bucket add some warm water and washing soap powder , shake it well to make a foam then apply in the sticker after 20 + minutes try removing it

Regards
Inam

[Klaus]

Well Inam,

my car - still there is no fuel pump at Al Ghandi.
It's not the sticker to remove only the glue. Unfotunately I don't have a Jet-engine, so I don't have kerosine and don't know where to buy. Tried hot water + soap allready nothing seems to work. Last year I did with lighter spirit, no problem but now in the meantime a lot of sand and dust got stuck on the glue. What ever I will use now, it will scratch.
We used this kind of stickers in the Netherlands during summer, even bigger, leave them on your car for 14 days, take them of and you don't have to clean anything.

[difflock]

Hey Klaus,

Try a car polish compound (not cream) with a buffer if you have one (if not, do it manually). This will remove it and give your car a shine at the same time....

[Fouad Berjaoui]

Dear Klaus,

1- Follow Difflock's advice.

2- You dont have to own a Jet engine to have Kerosene, a gallon of Kerosene is sold at Carrefour for 5 Dhs in the camping section, I have one, it's not Jet fuel, it's camping light/lamp fuel also called Kerosene (Coleman).

3- In the Netherlands, you dont have this problem cause you dont have the kind of heat we have, the glue sticking on your car is due to the excess heat working on the cheap glue employed on the sticker.

Back in 2001, I placed the MDC stickers on my Blazer and TILL TODAY, there is a portion on the rear side window that says "Marlborro" in GLUE which is the top end of the sticker. since then, I learned not to use the stickers but rather use a double sided tape on the inside of the glass window. This year, I had a Hummer H2 at the Desert Challenge, imagine me putting that sticker on a 200,000 Dhs vehicle.

Bottom line is : whether you have a 5,000 Dhs or 200,000 Dhs, at the end of the day it's YOUR vehicle. Each year we are asked to carry loads of stuff in our own vehicle and I found that a little annoying, cause it's one thing for us to volunteer to work for MDC (which we gladly do), but to use and abuse our vehicles for transportation of banners and canopy tents in our own vehicles, that I find a little hard to swallow. Not to mentioning disfiguring our vehicles with those hard to clean stickers.

I advised MDC EVERY YEAR to use pickup trucks to transport material too big and heavy for our cars. Last year we were promised pickup trucks to transport the banners, we ended up transporting them in our vehicles which are loaded with recovery equipment, our clothes and our food and water. this year we had to transport 8 canopy tents 30-40 Kg. EACH, if it wasn;t for the Hummer which took them all, I dont know how we could have transported them. They are simply TOO heavy, you can take one, but EIGHT ??

It's the same thing with the Gulf News Marshals, I never participated in a Gulf News fun drive (350 or 700 cars is NOT my idea of "Fun" ) but I have seen many cars at the club belonging to people who marshalled, broken rear doors and windows from flying shackles, bent bumpers, burnt clutches or worn suspension from pulling 50 cars in two days...etc.

It's one thing to volunteer as a marshal, but be careful what you are getting YOUR VEHICLE into, you break something, you will not be reimbursed for it. they'll tell you it's YOUR vehicle and Hey...you volunteered to do this

Fouad

[RonThompson]

I eventually used GOO GONE-available at Ace. Still not easy, but it worked.