Big AL in VA

What is the best way to remove inspection stickers from the windshield? I recently went to a station that refused to remove the old sticker for fear of marring the surface. So I sat in this guys lot picking off the sticker with my finger nail. Long process.
Also, what is the reason for this film? Strictly safety? UV?

Big AL in VA
84 928S2 Euro twin distributor monster

SeanR

I use windex/razor blade/paper towels.

Slantnose!

+1.
Spray until it's wet and it'll come off much easier.

FlyingDog

I find it easier to scrape when dry. It doesn't wad up and get gummy. They make sticker/tint scapers which are expensive gasket scrapers which are a razor blade on a stick.

Fogey1

Your FLAPS will sell you a very nice razor blade holder.

Handle shaped like a screwdriver, 8-9" long. Makes it a snap to get down in the corners.

A spring-loaded jaw holds the blade very securely and the tool can be "safed" by removing the blade and putting it back in blade first. (assuming you're using single-sided blades.)

First time I saw one was in an inspection station and I've used mine for lots of things since.

http://www.autozone.com/Ntt,razor%20...ACCE077D49A555

mcholdfast

My ROW S4 has some sort of film on the inside of the windshield with a label warning against using any type of blade, etc. to remove stickers. I don't think the GT has the same film on the windshield. I'm not sure if this is just a ROW thing or is this the same film you are referring to in your original message. I just used water to wet the stickers and pulled them off. I had a few to remove when I got the S4 home from Va. Luckily Ga. doesn't need no stinkin stickers.

Big AL in VA

Yes, that is what I am referring to. My windsield on the inside has a kind of film that easily gouges. I can see marks from previous sticker removals gone bad. I have similar film as you describe.
I am curious what it is for and apparently others suggesting using a blade may not have this type of windshield.

Big AL from VA
84 928S Euro twin distributor monster

Slantnose!

Is it possible that is window tint?
If so, might be difficult to get it through the state inspection.
Anyway, just take a wet towel or rag and let it lay against & saturate the sticker.
Then, either use your fingers, a credit card, etc. to remove.
If it starts to dry, it will become sticky again.
Good luck.

Bill Coleman

Don't know if this will work or not on inspection stickers -

For price tags and such that won't come off my wife and I use peanut butter. Actually pretty much any oil will work, but peanut butter is easy to apply and [relatively] easy to remove. There's also a commercial product called 'Goo Gone', but we find that good old peanut butter works just as well, if not better.

Again, no idea if it will work on inspection stickers, or for that matter if it will harm anything else. But it works great on sticky paper.

928FIXER

You can buy plastic razor blades for scrapping the SI stickers off of the palstic coated anti-laceration windshields.Check with one of your local tool jobbers driving around in the large truck full of tools that sell to professional techs.