Hazemonster

So...I was stressing because I had peeled up one corner of the airbag label on my way to work this morning. I could not get it to "lay back down" and it looked horrible. I then went online and read how difficult it was to get them off...and that I needed "Goo Gone" or "Goof Off" and that the process was messy. I stressed about it all day at work...and when I went out to the parking lot (to my HOT C300) the label looked WORSE...almost flaking off on the edge that I peeled up.

The inside of the car was very hot, so I decided to just "go for it". I began peeling the label from the edge that was already up..and the label began to TOTALLY come off in one piece. It began to break apart and there was some nasty sticky residue being left behind...but I used the label itself to continually "bump and pull" all of the sticky residue off. I keep doing it until there was NOTHING left on the visor...no sticky mess...NO airbag label. I then looked over at the passenger side and said, "What the Hell"...and pulled it off. Again I got some sticky stuff left behind...but kept using the label...bumping the sticky stuff on IT...to remove the sticky stuff on the visor.

Each side took about a minute...and there is NOTHING left of the label on the visor...except for what appears to be a small "indention" of where the label was. I am totally happy with how my black visors look now with no glaring yellow stickers.

I understand that the folks that tried to remove them in colder weather had a horrible time with them. But if you get into your car when it has been sitting in the hot sun all day...they come off in under a minute.

Be patient...keep using the label to "pull off" the residue and you will have VERY CLEAN visors.

I take no responsibility for what might happen when you try it...but seriously...they came TOTALLY off for me in under a minute each.

Good Luck!!

narky

Nice "mod," I guess? I'm sure it adds to the cleanliness of the look. But isn't it required by law to leave the sticker on, at least in CA, USA? I could be wrong...

imboom

I hope you didn't lease your car.

I don't see how a simple sticker like that becomes intrusive/annoying enough to warrant it to be removed.

They are heat melted on so they pose a huge problem for those who want to remove them.

Savage c-300

how hot was "hot"? was it in the 100sF"

RLE

...But isn't it required by law to leave the sticker on...

The manufacturer is required to install the labels. The owner can do as he pleases. Can you imagine the worker at the emission test station peering inside, looking for the label? Ever seen it happen?

Some of them are lucky just to find their way to work.

RLE

...The inside of the car was very hot....

I can simulate Phoenix in August at 12 noon with a hair dryer, methinks. Gonna try it.

Hazemonster

NOPE

It wasn't the WORST thing to keep them on...but so much cleaner once removed. I am sure a lot of folks wish they weren't there.

Not a problem at all to remove in a hot car.....took about a minute each.

Hazemonster

It was Atlanta GA, and it was about 90 degrees outside when I got in the car, which had been sitting for 8 hours in the parking lot.

Hazemonster

Be careful..the advantage to a "hot car" is that the sticker has totally heated up to the same temperature as the visor.....came off easy. Hairdryer might be harder....don't know.

Good luck

dlee5312

I was thinking about doing the same thing, but was scared to see what the result would be. Thanks for the tip.

wingless

That's nothing! I always remove the "Do Not Remove Under Penalty of Law" labels from all my furniture.

aowhaus

I've used strips of duct tape or packing tape to pull the remaining sticky label residue with success.

wblynch

Bump...

Thanks for the tip !!

I did this just this morning on my way to work. Peeled the stickers right off and rolled the residue up into a little sticky ball with my thumb. Looks nice and neat now.

I can see a bare trace of residue on the surface that I'm sure will come off altogether with a quick wipe of some Goo-Gone.

2008 C-350

Hazemonster

That might not be "residue"...there is a permanent "slightly lighter" area there now..but hardly noticable....

VERY glad I got them off the visor.

Good luck.

Haze

zankok

tip: for the "residue" left when u de-batch or de-sticker, petrol is ur best friend
and also to clean dirty oil stains in ur engine bay
i always do that when i change my fuel filters, jus use the ones left in the fuel filter that i took out to clean around my engine bay
i never try on plastic tho so im not sure if itll melt the plastic, works perfect on glass and penal bodies, jus apply some on cloth and simple "wipe" the sticky residual off, works like magic

trial0r

i took those off the day i got the car. used goo-gone.

i think those airbag stickers look ridiculous.

wblynch

To which I am left to ask... What Airbag Stickers ???

AkaSigFreak

The airbag stickers on the sun visors.

jrbessette

I was in the car on a long road trip and i kept looking up and saying "damn that's ugly" so i just pulled it off.... left a little sticky goo, so i rubbed it a little and it came off like that mailing label sticky bugger crap... but its gone and required no heat and looks great now

now its time to get that stupid white sticker on the from windshield off

dalazernet

White sticker? Not the mercedes signature!!!!! Your car loses $5k of value without that LOL... J/K.

jstaneff

Yeah, so how long do people leave that thing on? I've left it since November, and am kind of wondering if it's of any real value (not, that $5K, please!).

wblynch

Ha ha...

I can just imagine MBz going crazy when the dealers start reporting all these w204's coming in where the airbag stickers have "fallen off".

MBz services will initiate a big investigation, suppliers will be called in and raked over the coals for "defective stickers", and eventually a recall will be made where new stickers will be issued that "won't fall off".

The 2010 will get a new visor design with the warning sticker molded and embedded right into the cover all because we decided to be non-comformists!!

Aggressive

dalazernet

Actually depending on your car -- some of them have embedded stickers, like mine. I can't remove them and it really annoys me, but c'est la vie.

- Eric

Peabody

Yeah, I wish mine was a sticker I could just peel off.. my sun visors are some kind of rubberized plastic with the warning pretty much melted into it... which is why I'm paying to have them redone in alcantara.