Perished MMOC sticker - removal advice please

Post by **andreaj** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 1:48 pm

I have just bought a new MMOC sticker for the car window, and a new plastic tax disc holder too, the old ones have perished and are looking rather brown and gungy. I have tried removing them but am finding it difficult as little pieces keep breaking off, they are well and truly stuck. Can anyone give me some advice as to what to use to shift this stuff? Any miracle product/mum's favourite cleaning recipe suggestion gratefully received.

Thanks

Post by **rayofleamington** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 2:11 pm

A plastic ice scraper and elbow grease, and/or white spirit and/or nail varnish remover (just don't spill it)

Post by **Kevin** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 2:23 pm

nail varnish remover

Agree with you on that one Ray

Post by **salty_monk** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 11:05 am

Use a hair dryer to heat it up first & it should peel off. Any residue can be removed with meths, nailvarnish remover, citrus degreaser... whatever takes you fancy....

Post by **fweddy** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 11:16 am

I used paint thinner to get a stubborn sealant off the other day

Post by **Kevin** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 11:42 am

I use paint thinner

But we are a softer lot over here Fweddy thats why we all recommend nail varnish remover

Post by **andreaj** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 1:20 pm

Thanks chaps (chapesses/nail varnish users!)
I'll give all of these hints a try this evening. Soon have Betty shining brighter than a new swivel pin...

I'd also like to say that I have only just started using this message board thingy, and it's fab - I wonder why I didn't use it before - only wish all problems could be solved so quickly and friendli-ly

Post by **pskipper** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 1:57 pm

Any kind of alcohol will work, I used vodka to remove the brown mess left behind from my old tax disc holder!

Post by **Matt** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 2:33 pm

you alcy.....

Post by **pskipper** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 2:37 pm

She's being MOT'ed today so hopefully on the road tonight! It's been a tough one, especially after a specialist garage not to far from the centre of Bath set fire to her and gutted the interior!

Post by **rayofleamington** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 2:52 pm

especially after a specialist garage not to far from the centre of Bath set fire to her and gutted the interior!

Bea is selling an interior from a crashed / rolled traveller. Most of it will fit (not sure about the backseat though)

Post by **pskipper** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 2:57 pm

Fortunately because it was their fault they replaced it all free of charge! Irritatingly they were supposed to have her ready yesterday morning (so I booked an MOT for the afternoon) and didn't give me her until 4pm, uncleaned so still smokey but I had to take her then or loose another week!
On the plus side, new carpets, newer interior panels and seat covers, new headlining and a better radio cassette player!
On the whole it still isn't what you want/expect from a professional garage, especially on a week when you have all the hassles of moving house!

Post by **Gareth** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 2:59 pm

...specialist garage...fire...interior...

I had that happen... got a nice new back seat out of the guy, too... He ain't trading no more...

Post by **pskipper** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 3:03 pm

What's worse is they were only doing a chassis leg and front crossmember repair, apparently the preservative in the chassis leg caught fire, the leg acted like a chimney and sent a flash of burning fumes up, out at the master cylinder and torched the interior before they could do anything about it! I'm glad the tape in the radio cassette was just a copy from one of my CD's (for personal use etc) because that melted

Post by **Matt** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 3:03 pm

Ray... I have dibs on the interior... my car has most of its interior missing!!

Post by **Kevin** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 3:37 pm

Matt I thought your Traveller was complete as you were trying to sell it.

Post by **rayofleamington** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 4:18 pm

On the whole it still isn't what you want/expect from a professional garage

Well - I would expect them to offer you a hundred quid for the priviledge, so replacing it all is certainly a bonus

I'm one of the majority who cut corners by not removing enough things when welding - if that had happened to me I'd have needed a new (wooden) garage too. It would be nice to think my house insurance would cover the new garage ?!?

Post by **Matt** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 5:04 pm

It is, its just got bits missing, like the carpet, the seats are faily nasty, ie ripped and lumpy, the door cards are shot, they dont stay on the doors and there is nothing that should be in the back......

Post by **fweddy** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 10:31 am

But we are a softer lot over here Fweddy thats why we all recommend nail varnish remover

Maybe you lot are - We have "kiwi ingenuiety" (even in spelling) I don't actually have any nail polish remover down in the shed - (neither in my room!) - Paint thinner was the only thing about in the shed and it saved time getting anything else and the embarrasment of going to a chemist (do they sell it?) to get nail polish remover (and potentially picking up some wrong, embarrasing product!)

I was actually taking a old high stop light off a rearglass which was stuck on - was gonna throw it out but put it on auction and got double my reserve so far!

Post by **lowedb** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 3:23 pm

There's a special spray called label remover you can buy. I've yet to find something sticky and horrible that it's failed to remove. You have to be careful on some plastics, though! I'd tried evrything to get a faded National Trust sticker off a window and given up until this stuff.

It's available from a variety of places, but Maplin Electronics have plenty of high street branches and sell the stuff.